Worst job I've had so far - Graphic Designer Daedalus Books Employee Review

- Absolutely no room for creativity or innovation, ideas are shot down with harsh criticism -Disorganized, abusive, overbearing management - As industry crumbles, management makes cuts to employee benefits instead of cutting obsolete roles and making updates to company -Outdated brand, policies, and website with no possibility of improvement -No upward mobility -Quick to criticize, slow to praise I worked here for about 10 months as a graphic designer in title but production designer in effect. While I loved my team, who were an incredibly intelligent, talented, and dedicated bunch of individuals, this company does not deserve them. They are unable to clearly communicate what they do and do not like, and working in a creative position is a tedious, repetitive hell I could never go back to. With tiny creative breaks every few months or so, they dangle you with a promise of more, but it never comes. It meetings, lower employees are encouraged to sit down shut up and do as they're told, as management plays art director with no experience in the field and a temperament that sends you home crying some days. New ideas are not appreciated, and you are given feedback that is more personal than professional. Sometimes you get positive feedback when the "art director" actually hates the work you've done. You are expected to figure this out and redesign from scratch. In most jobs, I get real feedback and change or stay on my current track. At this job, you get random feedback and are expected to understand. When they cut the lunch break and turned it into working more hours for the same pay, and took away retirement matching, I started looking for a new job. I had had enough of management yelling at my team and shutting down great ideas from dedicated employees. We would have built a website that could have revitalized the company and saved them from cutting people who had worked there for years. Again, most all of these ideas are shut down and the employees are criticized as if we are bad people. Never experienced this phenomenon in any other workplace before, and haven't since. If you want to have your creativity snuffed out, your ideas shut down, be cursed at by management, made to feel guilty for taking off when sick, forced to do boring work you are overqualified for, but do it with a team of amazing people, you can do it here. Or, you could find a great team at a company run by sane humans. I wouldn't work here again if they offered me double what I had been making.