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It doesn’t sound like you’re not competent, it just sounds like you’ve got a toxic boss who makes it impossible for you to perform. Don’t let them play with your head. I’d start looking for something else
Chief
If you’re being lectured for hours, you may have just found the 5%
Why is your boss lecturing you for hours on end? Who has time for that! I would look to move to another team within your company or for a new job all together. Your boss sounds like the problem.
Communicate about the 5% as early as possible.
It’s sounds like nothing you ever do will be good enough for your boss, and they are manipulating you to get as much work out of you as possible by playing on your insecurities.
Long time ago when I worked at Dentsu. Loved my ECD. Hated the agency. Total hack shop.
I have this exact issue at Dentsu now. My company was recently acquired and I was genuinely excited about the learning opportunities, but instead, everyone just says, “we are here to support you” and turns around and spends 8 hours of their day in meetings.
Really need to leave, but just feels like a scary time to change jobs.
I lived this life too…it only got better when I left that boss/job.
Yeahhhhh been there done that. I would try and keep my head down while looking for a move.
I’ve had 2 extremely toxic bosses and tried two different strategies, fight em and navigate them and they both ended up unfavorable for me.
People suck, but I’m learning you gotta move the ship around them vs. letting them stop the ship. Most people who make that much fuss are making distractions to keep eyes off of their own ship 😄
I actually had the same experience before leaving Dentsu. I think my heart knew that it was time to find something else before I spoke it into existence. When I joined a new team it was weird how the mistakes went away (for the most part!) and I became a lot more relaxed. There are learning curves for sure and being new isn’t always fun but the change in working environment was far better suited for me.
Chief
As a creative 1. I always feel like I can’t do my job, there’s a weight that everything you do must be globally recognized and better than anything anyone else has ever done. And it’s stifling. Imposter syndrome + psychotic expectations lead to 80 hour work weeks.
2. I have bad add, so time management isn’t my friend. I’ve gotten around that by giving myself shorter deadlines (ie 30 hours) to force myself to be more time efficient.
3. Meditate (it helps w the anxiety, attention to detail, and the time management )
4. You’re not serving this person, you’re working for them. It’s up to them to provide you with feedback but also clear direction and expectations. Moving the goalposts doesn’t count.
Is there a reason why you don’t complete your projects 5% of the time?
When fire drills like that come up, email a list of everything you have to do to your boss in the timeframe you have to do it and say you are over capacity. Ask what should be prioritized and what is possible push - frame it as a follow up to “recent conversations.” Do this as early as you can.
Put it on them and put it in writing. Then if this happens again, you can fall back on that note and put it on them, again, to define what success looks like moving forward if following their exact instruction isn’t it.
My job I left always had someone to proof read my projects.
Working on tight deadlines, it is easy to miss minor errors.