Design work can be fun
I ran a team of designers in the in-house marketing section of a finance house back in the day. In real words, that means we did leaflets and stuff.

As part of a huge rebranding exercise, we redesigned the 'look' for the packages on offer and put together a range of sales support material - window stickers, pens, rulers, all manner of rubbish.

One of my team was a lad who always reckoned he knew better. Young, smelled a bit, and wanted to go far. He took ownership of one section of the materials.

The fnck-ups were many, but came to a head with a batch of stickers to go in showroom windows. They came in to us with a space missing from the company's name.

Umpty thousand had been spent on these stickers, and the artwork had been proofread and double-checked before it went out. The signed proofs did not match the finished product.

To cut a very long story short, this lad had been 'improving' artwork *after* it had been signed off, and before it got to the printers.

Shitloads of products were either unusable or less-than-perfect. Thousands of pounds down the drain and a flagship project becoming a bit of a disappointment all round.

He went on to work for a local authority up North, where I suspect he carried on improving his 'skills'.

Edit to add: Google informs me that he's gone on to do artwork for tapes of speeches by religious nutjobs. We're doomed.
(uncle whippity, Tue 30 Oct 2007, 14:37, Reply)