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Just wanted to know what kind of project proposals you are getting. Could you please share your experience so far.
Are you getting irrelevant projects?
Is management forcing to take irrelevant project assignments?
Do we have freedom to reject the project proposals?
What kind of project nagarro has?
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I think we’ve all had work stollen at some point in our careers. Generally, you ask for that person to take it down, or clarify their involvement on their sites. And typically they do, because they’ve been caught.
The crazy thing about that other thread you’re referencing, was that the thief in this instance refused to take the work down (password protected it instead), threatened legal action, and trashed anyone who spoke up to corroborate the claim.
Makes for compelling watercooler gossip. But is also quite concerning for the future. That could have been any of our work.
My work has been stolen by at least three people. Colleagues have told me not to contact any of them, out of fear of retaliation.
Someone steals your work move on and make more and better work.
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We don’t know what happened...
Wait - are you arguing for due process?
I'm always confused when people say that someone else "stole" their work. Did they not work on the project at all? Is there content where they worked on the overall campaign, but not the exact pieces they're showing? Or did they work on it, but are claiming they played a different or bigger role than they did? Most of my career has been as a production designer, so I've never been the art director on most of the projects in my portfolio, but on my site I write "role: production designer" and then explain "this is what the AD on the project did to start with, and these are examples of how i adapted that to create the rest of the assets needed in the campaign." So, yes, some of someone else's work is going to end up being shown next to my work for reference. Is that what people are doing to you? Or is it where they're claiming they did your job when they weren't even involved in the project?
You’re fine, you helped make it. I’m talking about someone posting a piece of work that they had no hand in, at all. For example, they made a static mobile banner that only said, “Bud Light.” Then you go to their website, and you see the the Bud Light Super Bowl TV spot instead. They didn’t go to the shoot, they didn’t write the spot, they didn’t concept the idea or have anything to do with making that Super Bowl spot.
Woah what happened
Everyone, this topic is not about gender, whether there should be leniency, or whether someone is a jerk. Go to the other thread for that.
The topic here is, what about us? We, the people who are honest, who are not getting jobs in lieu of someone else who used stolen work to beat our book. Or have watched others attain success with our work that was not theirs. Or have not told thieves to take down our work, out of fear of retaliation.
I know for one, creative managers will look upon us small agency folk with more scrutiny. I have never had the opportunity to work with as many layers as big agencies with designers, Illustrator, creative director, chief creative officer, group executive creative director, and all the other fancy titles.
Typically I do about 80-90% of the work with some manager and client feedback. How can I vouch for what I’ve done without someone looking at me like, “Pfft! Yeah right you designed and art directed this all by yourself.”