What do you do when someone is continuously undermining your decision?

I am a post-producer working with an integrated producer. For anything he asks that he did not get, he would either ask my supervisor for approval or his to speak to mine so I will give in. My supervisor supports me. I am basically following company policy, and even bending them a little bit to accommodate requests to meet halfway. But he just wants things his way.

What is a good way to deal with it?

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If you’re in-house at an agency, that’s the difficult game…

You as a post producer will be evaluated on how you keep a project on time and budget, and protecting your markup/overhead. Your agency producer wants to get the work done and hit their budget targets. The head of studio/head of production know that we ultimately need to serve the needs of agency clients, and taking a “hit” on markup on a project will ultimately help the relationship. They need to make that call, and see the forest through the trees.

Working internally should mean we can do more for less. Lately I’ve found in-house to be markedly more expensive , less flexible, and a worse overall experience than working with external partners.

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Let your supervisors deal with it. That’s what they’re for.

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