Manager redoes my work frequently, looking for advice
I’m a designer and I have a new manager who has been essentially redoing all my work. I’m known as being a strong designer in my industry but I’ve been working under a new manager for a few months and he has completely redone my work overnight before a client meeting more than once. As in, it’s a completely different design. Ahead of this there hasn’t been any conversation about my work not being up to scratch or even that he wants to see something else or another direction. So I’m always pretty surprised when I see the design updates that were never discussed and just appeared overnight.
I’ve never experienced this before and It’s pretty demotivating. Not really sure what to do in this situation because at the end of the day the design needs to be something the manager approves of but I really feel like my job is pointless or like I’m doing something wrong or maybe even that I’m actually not as great a designer as I thought when this happens.
What would you do in this situation? I’m not particularly tied to this job but it’s not great timing to look for something new at the moment. The one thing this job has going for it is that it is relatively stress free compared with the same role at other companies but I’m still getting those Sunday scaries and just really don’t want to go to work anymore because of this.