an account that might be handed to our agency, and a brand I’m excited to potentially work on, has a main client who was agency-side on an account I was on seven years ago. The account was awful, the agency was awful, I left on poor terms with pretty much everyone and I am concerned this poison might have leaked it’s way to her. I’ve been successful in my career since then but not sure how to tell my boss that we might be at risk of not getting the biz bc I’m the lead. How should I handle?

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Say nothing. The only 2 outcomes here are you getting the axe or the client being cool with it. Assume the latter and never speak of the old times beyond “yes, I knew them at x agency- but were we in the trenches together on a really tough client, so I look forward to working with them in more sane circumstances. As I recall they were really great at blah and blah!”

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