Anyone worked at an agency that fired a huge client? What was the final straw?

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hmmmm Edelman OP, why do you ask? ;)

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Grey fired ETrade. Story goes ETrade didn't want to move on from the ETrade baby after 10 years.

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Mullen fired Panera back in the day. Asshole clients. "We don't want to put our people through this anymore". It was a proud time

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The backstory on all these is that the relationship was bad, the finances were bad, and the writing was on the wall. So fire the client to save face and for the morale win.

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Leo fired Blackberry a while ago. I didn't work on it at the time but heard some nightmare stories about abusive clients.

Vayner fired someone once apparently.

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