I am currently at my third job as a Graphic designer and have been in the field for about 5 years. My first company moved to the other side of the country, so I couldn't stay there. My second job was freelancing, however I prefer to work as a team player so I looked for a job; my current one.

I am generally happy at the place, the salary is ok, my colleagues are nice, it's a large, fast growing international company. All well, you'd think.

However, on a weekly basis I'm being asked to copy other work/websites. At first I assumed they meant to use it as inspiration but they want to literally copy it. Example;

My company colors are yellow and green and we use a design style A. Company X uses purple and blue and uses design style B. My boss literally wants me to copy design style B, in purple and blue, even though that is nothing close to our style guide and I repeatedly tried to convince him it doesn't even work in our branch, with examples and even proof in numbers through testing.

Is this something that happens often in larger companies? I don't want to lay off a job this soon (1 year) but I feel very uncomfortable stealing other people's work and creating things I feel don't work. Is it bad for my resume to have all these short jobs?

I am currently at my third job as a Graphic designer and have been in the field for about 5 years. My first company moved to the other side of the country, so I couldn't stay there. My second job was freelancing, however I prefer to work as a team player so I looked for a job; my current one.

I am generally happy at the place, the salary is ok, my colleagues are nice, it's a large, fast growing international company. All well, you'd think.

However, on a weekly basis I'm being asked to copy other work/websites. At first I assumed they meant to use it as inspiration but they want to literally copy it. Example;

My company colors are yellow and green and we use a design style A. Company X uses purple and blue and uses design style B. My boss literally wants me to copy design style B, in purple and blue, even though that is nothing close to our style guide and I repeatedly tried to convince him it doesn't even work in our branch, with examples and even proof in numbers through testing.

Is this something that happens often in larger companies? I don't want to lay off a job this soon (1 year) but I feel very uncomfortable stealing other people's work and creating things I feel don't work. Is it bad for my resume to have all these short jobs?