🤯 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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Two people in the agency, who were married to other people, had an affair and it turned ugly when one started to catch feelings. After two years of this, I got laid off after the agency lost the accounts I was on.

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Or both of them get canned. Seen that too

I stabbed a man with a trident in the mail room of my office

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Are you hiring?

Someone keyed seemingly random cars in the agaency garage. After going through security footage they figured out it was the super quiet accounting guy. He was fired and no one really mentioned it. My partner and I only found out because we were friends with the office manager.

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