Long story short, I’m working with a client as a sub contractor Graphic designer. I flagged my concerns with the CEO. The boss was going to cancel my contract but didn’t know the senior designer had not communicated anything to me about my performance, nor did they assign me any work to do as promised.
I asked them what the problem was and what was the reason for their behaviour and wouldn’t you know it… it was because I was sick for one day and claimed I was late delivering an assignment. That was over 3 weeks ago…the marketing team and senior designer were cool with it at the time it happened. My work was approved and published. No one told me at the time that I had done anything wrong as I was told that the task was not high priority.
I’m finding out now that this designer was resenting me for it. I offered to apologize first and recommend talking about changes during a meeting. Let me tell you this woman must have a chip on her shoulder because every time I spoke, she interrupted me to say something condescending or defensive. When ever I attempt to explain what I can do to help, she responds as if I’m trying to compete with her.
After 30 minutes of back and forth we got to the heart of the matter. We settled on doing things her way. The problem is after thinking about the things she said, her apology didn’t seem sincere.
I recall during interview before I was hired, that she mentioned hiring another designer before me who burned bridges with her. They ghosted her on the job and never came back. Red flag.
I noticed this company based in US was posting actively on foreign work at home job sites in the Caribbean. Why.
During interview the senior designer remarked I might be overqualified for the job. Hmm.
she’s been telling me brazenly that I am being underpaid….on purpose. To sound like she’s in charge or something…. I’m sitting here thinking… who TF would just say that without considering how shitty all this looks.
I didn’t put up a fight but I’m feeling like I should have. I’m contemplating leaving but I don’t have another client to bounce to yet. Don’t even know what to do… just cringing so hard right now.