Print Prison - Anonymous employee Tom Cody Design Employee Review

To work here you must have a very thick skin and be incredibly confident in your abilities as a designer. Although your creativity and confidence will be slowly beaten out of you by the micro management and of the owner and creative directors critiques. These happen on a daily basis sometimes twice a day and are very intense. You will be asked to change pointless, minute details. But also be prepared to have your designs totally changed on a whim.... you will never fully have ownership over your designs and you will not be treated as a the talented designer that you most probably are. Speaking of money you will not be compensated for the work you do....you will not get paid commission on every design you sell (even though the sales people do)......its like working in a print prison. You will be treated like a machine and not as a creative individual. You must keep a detailed log of all the prints you sell and your holiday and sick days as management will most probably try to cheat you out of the money the owe you when you leave. Before you start demand a contract that clearly outlines your basic pay, commission rate, holiday entitlement and sick days. Senior staff are extremely dishonest and paranoid! Working conditions aren’t great either…be aware of the aircon….don’t sit underneath it you may end up with it falling on your head…..be prepared to wear a million layers in the winter….don’t touch the radiators they will burn your hands and melt you shoes!!! So you’ll either be roasting or freezing not a great environment conducive with being creative! If you do end up working here learn as much as you can, learn from your colleagues develop friendships, realise that most print studios don’t operate in this dishonest, degrading illegal manner! What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. GOOD LUCK!