ok listen i want to preface all of this by saying in general i really really love my job

and for those of you that don't know, i do web design for a marketing firm! they hand me a document of content for the website and a google drive full of photos and i design a site around it based on what the client has indicated they like.

sometimes, i have to revise sites after they've been sent to clients. that's fine, that's expected. i was just handed an extensive revision that was originally done by a freelance designer we no longer work with. also fine!

what is NOT fine is that both this, and the emergency project i had last week, had their content docs revised by the lead content writer, who i have now concluded i kind of despise.

she tends to be like... really blunt with her internal revision requests, to start with, which is Not Great for me as i already really struggle with internal revisions due to rejection sensitivity but i'm really trying to work through it, y'know? but man she makes it that much harder

and on top of that her revisions have increasingly just... not made any sense based on other feedback or materials i've been given.

like, with the emergency project from last week - the revisions requests specifically called out that the gallery photos needed captions. the captions were in the content doc, which lead writer personally revised. i added them!

today i get feedback to take them out, because she "[doesn't] know where those came from, they weren't provided by the client." what the hell???

and then the revisions from today. dear god.

they were not kidding when they said extensive. practically all of the text content is changing. which would be fine, it's mostly a copy/paste sitch.

but then i got to the third page on the site.

and i'd spent like. 2 solid hours adding text content to this page

and i stop and look at how much i have left still to add

excluding the header, intro paragraph, call to actions, and footer

this page was nearly 6000 words in length.

most of which included just... really obvious errors that any spelling/grammar check would have caught. things like not capitalizing the word German, forgetting spaces between sentences, "heartwork" instead of "heartworm."

there's also a lot of CONTENT WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. SOMETIMES WITH DOUBLE EXCLAMATION POINTS!!

which is quite literally how i type when i'm just being casual, but. i am not a website advertising a professional business

i am like 95% certain she just took content from the old website and threw it in this doc without even bothering to read it. and i'm sure the client wants all this info on there! but it's our job to make this all, you know, digestible to an audience

if it was some random web writer on the team, i'd just be like. okay, this person just isn't the greatest at their job, we can work this out. but no, this is the head of the content writing team.

it's just... really, really frustrating. especially because this is for a vet's website, and i was REALLY enjoying it before running into this 6000 word monster of a page! it's covered in puppies, how can i NOT???

you ruined puppies for me, lady!!

anyway, that's it. sorry for rambling on for this long but thank you if you actually read any of this screaming into the void

oh my god that sounds frustrating

i'm so sorry

oh geeze...

ok some good news: i did email her like "um, hey, shouldn't we split up this 6000 word page" and she went "i agree, let's loop in the account executive"