All this useless swirl and pointless mismanagement that makes insane timelines. Least agencies could do is bring ping pong tables back.

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We have a ping pong table at our agency. But the “culture” they keep talking about is nonexistent so it sits there collecting dust. We’re all hybrid forced to come in 3 days a week, which would be fine except most of us work with other offices from various time zones. So we drive in and sit in empty rooms on teams calls, have gross coffee, maybe an errant stale bagel or doritos, then drive home.

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How can you have culture when everyone's too busy to participate?

literally going through the same thing with leadership on my account

If someone had time to play ping pong, I’m sure they’d get “allocated” to another account instantly.

Exactly. Even though you need time to be creative to, you know, be creative.

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