u/OnlyPups

I’ve been at this company over 10 years. It didn’t used to be like this but in the past 5 years or so it has been taken over by lizard overlords. It seems a couple times a month a new policy or program is introduced and I feel like the walls are closing in. As the place gets bigger, I feel smaller and smaller. We have very good reviews on indeed and glass door. (Of course I haven’t written my own honest review in order to read more of them)
I see positive attitudes in the chit chat in the company forum, and we’ve long been discouraged from discussing with each other what’s really going on.
“If you have something to discuss, bring it to your team leader.”
Do people really like it here?

EDIT: To clarify, I am not asking if I should stay here or move on. I’m asking if people really like this or if it’s all fake.

TLDR: are you forced to copy chat gpt layouts? Also please don’t shame me for doom posting, I seriously want to know if anyone else is doing this.

I am an ad designer at a company who distributes publications across the U.S. I’ve been at this job 12 years. I loved ai when photoshop introduced generative fill, I was obsessed with it and now use it several times a day. However now I’m wondering if it’s all worth it. it’s gotten to the point where a growing percentage of our ad jobs are “recreate this ‘mock up’ the client made” (in chat gpt). New ad creations shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes, maybe a little more for heavy content. But these ai dupes take easily an hour to recreate. Also I’m not currently worried about my position being eliminated. It’s my sanity I’m worried about. The business owner goes into chat gpt, says make an ad from my website, and in less than a minute it spits out this garbage. Our liaison then has to put that back into ai to get the text into typed format so we can recreate it. I once had a fairly rewarding job but this is sucking the life out of me. And if the business owners (my employer and the publications) don’t care about ugly ads, why should I care?

I had an ad creation this week that I made: they said “this has no hierarchy” and “make it look more like this” they had taken my ad and put it into gpt and had it lay out the text content differently. The result is the gpt style we all know and love. I get the message: “your designs suck, let me get the computer to show you how to do it.” (And what is the prompt for this?) Nothing like ai design to knock you down a peg or two. I’d be a fool to leave this job to go do graphic design somewhere else. If I were to hypothetically leave to do a different kind of creative work I’d be starting at entry level. Work like this leads me to rage painting the house on the weekends, and I’ve run out of paint.

TLDR: are you forced to copy chat gpt layouts? Also please don’t shame me for doom posting, I seriously want to know if anyone else is doing this.

I am an ad designer at a company who distributes publications across the U.S. I’ve been at this job 12 years. I loved ai when photoshop introduced generative fill, I was obsessed with it and now use it several times a day. However now I’m wondering if it’s all worth it. it’s gotten to the point where a growing percentage of our ad jobs are “recreate this ‘mock up’ the client made” (in chat gpt). New ad creations shouldn’t take more than 20 minutes, maybe a little more for heavy content. But these ai dupes take easily an hour to recreate. Also I’m not currently worried about my position being eliminated. It’s my sanity I’m worried about. The business owner goes into chat gpt, says make an ad from my website, and in less than a minute it spits out this garbage. Our liaison then has to put that back into ai to get the text into typed format so we can recreate it. I once had a fairly rewarding job but this is sucking the life out of me. And if the business owners (my employer and the publications) don’t care about ugly ads, why should I care?

I had an ad creation this week that I made: they said “this has no hierarchy” and “make it look more like this” they had taken my ad and put it into gpt and had it lay out the text content differently. The result is the gpt style we all know and love. I get the message: “your designs suck, let me get the computer to show you how to do it.” (And what is the prompt for this?) Nothing like ai design to knock you down a peg or two. I’d be a fool to leave this job to go do graphic design somewhere else. If I were to hypothetically leave to do a different kind of creative work I’d be starting at entry level. Work like this leads me to rage painting the house on the weekends, and I’ve run out of paint.