🤯 Advertising True Stories - I’ve found that some people have stories in advertising that are almost too hard to believe. What’s your story? I’ll start…

A developer gets called into the ad agency’s owners office. What started with a termination talk turned into the developer stating why things weren’t going well with so much confidence. The owner changes his tune and asks the developer to stay on, and the developer negotiated a higher salary than he originally had. 🤯

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