u/Many-Lion-3122

Hello, has anyone purchased a new two wheeler recently? If yes how long did it take for the Number Plate to arrive at the dealership? I am getting my first bike and i am too restless about when i will get it delivered 😅

I'm a UI/UX Designer at a mid-sized IT services company. Almost 2 years in. This is my first job.
When I joined, there were already 2 designers. I was the third. My team lead taught me things, I got assigned to a project, worked on it for 14-15 months, and then the client left. Cool. Happens.
But here's where it gets fun.
Since that client left — around 6 months ago — I haven't been assigned a single real project. I've been doing internal stuff. Company website, some odd design tasks here and there. But even that isn't consistent. There are days, sometimes stretches of days, where there is genuinely nothing to do. I sit at my desk for 8 hours doing absolutely nothing of value. Sometimes I do self-study. Sometimes I just stare at the screen like a man who has accepted his fate.

Now about this team lead.
This guy has 10 years of experience. In graphic design. He transitioned to UI/UX later and honestly? It shows. He's great at making things look pretty. Actual product thinking, user research, systems design, working with constraints from devs and PMs? Absolutely lost.
But he doesn't know that about himself. That's the problem.
He makes decisions with zero data, zero reasoning, zero explanation. His justification for every design choice is literally "it's good for user experience." That's it. No metrics. No rationale. No backing. Just vibes and 10 years of unearned confidence.
Devs push back? He gets angry. PMs question him? He digs in harder. And when people don't follow his designs? He deliberately ships bad work out of spite. I have watched this man torpedo relationships with every PM and dev team in the company. They now refuse to work with the design team entirely. Because of one person.
And now we're all paying for it.

The company is struggling to get new clients. Existing clients have been leaving. And the design team is completely sidelined because nobody wants to deal with our lead. So there's no real work. For anyone. But especially for me.
Recently they removed my Figma premium access. "Cost cutting." Okay fine. But they also gave whatever little internal work was left entirely to the other designer. So now I have no tools, barely any work, and zero communication from my lead. He doesn't talk to me. Doesn't assign me anything. Just pretends I don't exist.
I genuinely think he hates me and here's why.
Whenever I try something different or push back with reasoning, he shuts it down immediately. I tried working on personal practice projects during downtime — he had a problem with it. I have a side hustle I do outside work hours — he found out and tried to make it a policy issue. My communication is better than his, especially with clients. And I think he knows that product design is moving somewhere he can't follow, and I'm a daily reminder of it.
So here I am. First job. Two years in. Sitting at a desk, barely any tools, inconsistent work, no growth, no feedback, and a team lead who has quietly decided I don't exist.

I've already started looking for other jobs. I know that's the right move and I'm on it.
But what genuinely gets to me is this — one person. One insecure, rigid, uncommunicative person has managed to ruin relationships with every PM, every dev team, driven clients away indirectly, and made an entire design function useless inside a company. The damage one bad leader can do is actually insane when you see it up close.

TL;DR — 2 years into my first UX job. My team lead is a graphic designer cosplaying as a product designer, makes decisions based on zero data, has burned every relationship with PMs and devs, and is slowly killing the company’s design credibility. I’ve had no real project for 6 months, just got my Figma access removed, and he doesn’t even talk to me anymore. Pretty sure he sees me as a threat. Already job hunting but the whole situation is just a masterclass in how one bad leader can ruin everything around them.

Btw used AI to write this because i was too lazy to write it out myself.

My lead just asked for my Figma credentials "to cut a license cost." I can't tell if I'm getting laid off or if I'm overthinking.

I don't even know how to start this.

Yesterday my lead came to me and said he needs my Figma credentials. I asked why. He said the company wants to cut one license to save costs. We are 3 designers. He came to me.

Is this a layoff? Is this just cost cutting? I genuinely don't know and that uncertainty is eating me alive.

Context. Company has had no new projects for over a year. 12-14 devs got laid off. More left on their own. Existing projects also dried up. I've been doing internal work like designing the company website just to stay useful.

And now they want my Figma access. A tool that costs ₹18,000 a year.

I have EMIs. I have family depending on my salary. This is my first job. Almost 2 years in. And I am sitting here tonight not knowing if tomorrow is my last day or just another normal day where I show up and pretend everything is fine.

The worst part is nobody is saying anything directly. Just take the license. No conversation. No clarity.

And this lead of mine. I don't even know where to begin.

He would CC my manager if I took a slightly longer break. Told me to stop my side hustle with zero explanation. Never explains any of his decisions. Just follow and shut up.

But here is the part that actually broke me.

Few weeks ago when he found out I was making decent money from selling digital products, he copied my product and started selling it on his own separate account. I found out.

I said nothing. Because I am a junior. Because I needed to keep my job. I swallowed it and showed up the next day like nothing happened.

But something shifted inside me that day. I stopped being the guy who would casually chat with him. No more sharing what I was working on outside work. No more small talk. Work conversations only. I built a wall and I stayed behind it because I didn't know what else to do with that anger.

I was raging inside. I just had nowhere to put it.

And now this same person is the one who came to take my Figma access.

I don't know if I'm getting laid off. I just know I can't sleep right now.

Has anyone been in this situation? What did you do?

TLDR:
Junior designer, first job, company struggling with no new projects and mass layoffs already done. Lead copied my side hustle product, I found out and stopped engaging with him, now he's asked for my Figma access. Don't know if this is a layoff signal or cost cutting. Have EMIs and can't sleep.

My lead just asked for my Figma credentials "to cut a license cost." I can't tell if I'm getting laid off or if I'm overthinking.

I don't even know how to start this.

Yesterday my lead came to me and said he needs my Figma credentials. I asked why. He said the company wants to cut one license to save costs. We are 3 designers. He came to me.

Is this a layoff? Is this just cost cutting? I genuinely don't know and that uncertainty is eating me alive.

Context. Company has had no new projects for over a year. 12-14 devs got laid off. More left on their own. Existing projects also dried up. I've been doing internal work like designing the company website just to stay useful.

And now they want my Figma access. A tool that costs ₹18,000 a year.

I have EMIs. I have family depending on my salary. This is my first job. Almost 2 years in. And I am sitting here tonight not knowing if tomorrow is my last day or just another normal day where I show up and pretend everything is fine.

The worst part is nobody is saying anything directly. Just take the license. No conversation. No clarity.

And this lead of mine. I don't even know where to begin.

He would CC my manager if I took a slightly longer break. Told me to stop my side hustle with zero explanation. Never explains any of his decisions. Just follow and shut up.

But here is the part that actually broke me.

Few weeks ago when he found out I was making decent money from selling digital products, he copied my product and started selling it on his own separate account. I found out.

I said nothing. Because I am a junior. Because I needed to keep my job. I swallowed it and showed up the next day like nothing happened.

But something shifted inside me that day. I stopped being the guy who would casually chat with him. No more sharing what I was working on outside work. No more small talk. Work conversations only. I built a wall and I stayed behind it because I didn't know what else to do with that anger.

I was raging inside. I just had nowhere to put it.

And now this same person is the one who came to take my Figma access.

I don't know if I'm getting laid off. I just know I can't sleep right now.

Has anyone been in this situation? What did you do?

TLDR:
Junior designer, first job, company struggling with no new projects and mass layoffs already done. Lead copied my side hustle product, I found out and stopped engaging with him, now he's asked for my Figma access. Don't know if this is a layoff signal or cost cutting. Have EMIs and can't sleep.

My lead just asked for my Figma credentials "to cut a license cost." I can't tell if I'm getting laid off or if I'm overthinking.

I don't even know how to start this.

Yesterday my lead came to me and said he needs my Figma credentials. I asked why. He said the company wants to cut one license to save costs. We are 3 designers. He came to me.

Is this a layoff? Is this just cost cutting? I genuinely don't know and that uncertainty is eating me alive.

Context. Company has had no new projects for over a year. 12-14 devs got laid off. More left on their own. Existing projects also dried up. I've been doing internal work like designing the company website just to stay useful.

And now they want my Figma access. A tool that costs ₹18,000 a year.

I have EMIs. I have family depending on my salary. This is my first job. Almost 2 years in. And I am sitting here tonight not knowing if tomorrow is my last day or just another normal day where I show up and pretend everything is fine.

The worst part is nobody is saying anything directly. Just take the license. No conversation. No clarity.

And this lead of mine. I don't even know where to begin.

He would CC my manager if I took a slightly longer break. Told me to stop my side hustle with zero explanation. Never explains any of his decisions. Just follow and shut up.

But here is the part that actually broke me.

Few weeks ago when he found out I was making decent money from selling digital products, he copied my product and started selling it on his own separate account. I found out.

I said nothing. Because I am a junior. Because I needed to keep my job. I swallowed it and showed up the next day like nothing happened.

But something shifted inside me that day. I stopped being the guy who would casually chat with him. No more sharing what I was working on outside work. No more small talk. Work conversations only. I built a wall and I stayed behind it because I didn't know what else to do with that anger.

I was raging inside. I just had nowhere to put it.

And now this same person is the one who came to take my Figma access.

I don't know if I'm getting laid off. I just know I can't sleep right now.

Has anyone been in this situation? What did you do?

TLDR:
Junior designer, first job, company struggling with no new projects and mass layoffs already done. Lead copied my side hustle product, I found out and stopped engaging with him, now he's asked for my Figma access. Don't know if this is a layoff signal or cost cutting. Have EMIs and can't sleep.

Since today was no water supply in Old Sangvi Area, will there be the same situation?