u/dudeoverderr

I mean...technically, she got herself fired? But I still feel bad.

I work in marketing as an Art Director at a tech and branding company. 50+ employees, fully remote. We recently hired a college graduate whose degree I still don't know what is, but she was our Associate Social Media Manager and I rarely spoke to her.

Just this past Monday, she took it upon herself to send one of our highest paying clients an AI-generated design to "inspire ideas" for a social media campaign. She didn't consult with any members of the Creative Team beforehand.

Obviously, the generated designs were very impractical, off-brand, and unrealistic to achieve, but the client loved the photo-realistic illustration style so much that they wanted us to now illustrate a campaign for them. In summary — it's going to take...maybe 60+ hours and cause several other clients of ours to be deprioritized to achieve this.

Initially, I assumed she meant well, but I spoke to her privately about why she can't do that. Instead of a mature response, she sent me several links about how "AI is the future" and said, "I think you should read these, I'm surprised someone at your level hasn't. Hope this helps!"

I crashed out.

I immediately spoke to her manager, whom I've known for 8 years, and she agreed that she's not fit for the role, too impulsive, and disrespectful.

I was like...wait, we aren't firing her are we? I just thought she was out of line. Nope, she got fired by 4PM.

Whoops. If you're reading this, sorry Kayleigh.

EDIT: Since some of y'all seemed curious, she's 25 and I'm 34. Like I'm literally not a boomer so it's not an age thing and our company actually utilizes AI internally lol. Appreciate all the discourse though! Didn't expect all of these comments. And I'm sorry but we're not hiring. Gonna outsource for social deliverables for now. :(

EDIT #2: To give context to how risky this client is to displease, they have us on a $150k/month retainer.

I live in NYC, so it's all about wrong place wrong time.

This morning I was on the J train — handful of others around — and this dude with a knife started yelling at nothing. Then bruh he walked up to me. I was sitting down with headphones.

The first part is still blurry tbh but I remember taking off my headphones to talk to him because he was saying shit to my face like, "Want me to cut you?"

My instinct was to COMPLETELY LIE so I told him real calm, "I just tried to kill myself last night man, I'm tryna change my life. We can talk though, what's your story bro? I'm chillin." or something like that.

I think it was five seconds of him just looking at me and he literally just, "Man you good bro." and walked away.

I'm still kinda numb y'all. Sorry if this isn't the right place to share this, but appreciate any support or if I should post this somewhere else. Thanks.

EDIT: Just wanted to thank y'all and say I appreciate a lot of these comments. I'm okay today! I've got a pretty dark sense of humor so this is officially part of my arsenal. I still believe it's better not to confront/respond to crazy, but if there's ever no way out, I hope this post allowed some of you guys to consider how you might tap into empathy, even if it's artificial.

UPDATE: I left, and so did some of my friends. I texted our DM a few min ago, and he straight up told me that the other player is the main character — I'm not kidding. I asked him if it was like a chapter-by-chapter thing where main characters switch, and he explained that since me and my other friends are newer to DnD that it's better for us to learn as supporting characters first. Hard no. (And by the way, this player was a Wizard. Not a Sorcerer. I didn't wanna say Wizard because he probably goes on Reddit, but fuck this group lol. Wizard with 18 Charisma + 18 Intelligence + 18 Dex at Level 1? Yeah okay). Thanks for the replies, everyone! <3

Original Post:

I understand this is largely the DM's responsibility, but some friends and I joined strangers to start a new campaign last week, and someone (he's otherwise a cool dude) is a Sorcerer who's got high Dex, Intelligence, and Charisma.

Meanwhile, my character's whole identity as a Bard relies on him having Charisma with terrible attributes on purpose (he's weak and talks his way out of conflict, and I plan on developing him over the campaign).

The thing is, our Sorcerer always tries to be the one to save the day — whether it's with a powerful spell, negotiating/intimidating, or scouting with his Familiar.

This leaves the other four players feeling like bystanders. For example, I offered to do a Performance skill check to distract some guards with song. And our Sorcerer — who has high Charisma and Performance +3 — said he had a better idea and summoned his Familiar to dance in front of the guards instead.

Bro???

Sorry for venting. It's my very, very first DnD campaign and I'm annoyed. Thanks.

EDIT: To clarify, when I say "terrible stats," I mean his Charisma is extremely high but his physical attributes are abysmal. As in he's not a fighter, he's a smooth-talker.

Hey all, I've read about mods that fix this issue on other platforms but it seems that my companions are lifeless on my ship. Any troubleshooting?

• It's last on my load order
• I initially had Sarah's + Andreja's Dialogue Enhanced mods, but now they're disabled
• I turned ON and OFF "Enable Conversations" setting in the mod because this wasn't even working anyway
• I've dismissed everyone and restarted my game

Is this mod just broken? Any other common conflicts? I love having all main companions with me, but this feels like Skyrim and not in a good way lol.

Thanks!