Advertising Confessions

If your first thought after a celebrity dies is to run to LinkedIn or ig and post a photo of you and them on a shoot, just know, it doesn’t look touching, it looks pathetic.

We have a team to promote diversity in our department...everyone on the team is straight and white. This really blows my mind.

As if our jobs weren’t pointless enough, the number of advertising people and media devoted to NFTs is literally unbelievable

As a man (with the originally-issued equipment), I pee sitting down, so that my hands are free to reply to emails and slack messages. It’s just more efficient.

99.9 percent of people are greedy and complain and are never thankful for what they do have. Even if they had more money they would still complain. Can I live in a mountain with just a select few peo… more

Anyone else totally into the mom from a Christmas Story?

Hiding from my family in the bathroom right now. Happy xmas eve!

Running list of companies that ghost AFTER 1+ live convos 👇drop your's here, so that fellow fishes have a head's up if they also don't ever hear back 🐠
Salesforce
Doordash

Went out for coffee with the managing director of an agency for potential job. We clicked, spent over an hour chatting. In the end he’s like “so how many coffees are you having?” 😅😂

My anxiety has been out of control lately. Accepted a new job offer and have been waiting on background checks/drug screens to clear and it’s taking a while to complete. I have no reason to think eith… more

The best paid account people are long winded say way too much and yet impact very little. They depend on the underlings to do a lot of heavy lifting and just show up coiffed and looking sharp with a b… more

I wake up every night holding my breath lmao. Idk if that’s classic sleep apnea or if my body is subliminally trying to off itself while I’m not paying attention.

Back in August I went on a first date and ended up having drunken sex that I basically slept through. I initiated it. He ghosted me after. More disappointed in myself than pissed at him. I developed a… more

I really regretted not asking a girl’s number today. She was perfect. Damn.

So, weird question but somewhat professionally related, because I wanna know how odd I am compared to my friends

How many of you in advertising have a hotwife fetish?

I’ve recently resigned after only 4-5 months at an agency because I just want didn’t want to be there anymore, the compatibility wasn’t there. I’m still interviewing around for another place and I’m t… more

Not a confession but a question,.. How long should sex last?

Vaccine mandate in NYC, what do we think?!

Questioning my existence and not feeling in a good place. No one to tell, so leaving this here.

Anyone who’s been through a divorce, any tips of what to know that lawyers might not tell you? Have a toddler and contemplating divorce (NY based). Feel like I’m about to make a decision that’s life c… more

All I really want is to be paid well in a job I’m over qualified for.

ECD asked me to pitch my idea to client and it’s my first time. I feel like throwing up just thinking about it. 🤢

Freaking dread late night meetings. Then your boss joins 30 minutes late. Is this how agencies run now?!

Ok, like the show Sucession, but I find myself surprised by the kinds of people who watch it and how much they love it.

It sorta just seems like a smarmy sophisticated show at times, but it feels like… more

I can't help but pronounce the new covid variant as "Omnicom".

Every time I see a departing exec replaced by a white guy (coughAngelaSteele/MikeLaw) a little part of me dies inside. Every exec departure is an opportunity to increase diversity at the senior level.… more

1. I’m a pandemic hire at this new agency and I like it enough, but I feel SO detached from all these humans I’ve never interacted with IRL… like, I just don’t give a flying fuck about these team-building zoom ca… more

I can’t stand my in-laws…

Happy Thanksgiving!

I didn’t used to consider myself to be a negative person, but lately it just seems to find its way in to any conversation, like word vomit. I’m trying to be less negative. I want to be a leader and know that most… more

I feel like some people on my team don’t like me. I may be projecting, but wwyd in that situation?

I’m bored and feeling messy. What’s the most scandalous office story you have.

Sorry, not feeling proud and/or humbled today.

Carry on....

Bummer when you’ve had a couple great interviews for a job you really want, you’re told they really like you, then learn that a LATE candidate added by recruiter = one of the biggest bullshit charlatan frauds in … more

I ate Tums for lunch today, and not even the good flavor. That is all.

I’ve always given over 100% in my career and my role, but things have been slow at the office and I’m dealing with a dying parent…so I’ve been very quiet about how unbusy I am. I feel guilty about it,… more

I’ve taken all my conference calls this morning from my bed in my undies. Anyone else?