Are pitches chaotic in every agency or am I just unlucky? It’s honestly the most miserable part of the job. Grown adults who make 3 times your salary being the most incompetent versions of themselves.

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Been here 11 years and 9/10 times it’s always chaotic at every agency I’ve been at. There are a lot of causes but I’d say it’s mainly due to the said “adults” making 3 times as much as us. When I was a jr my agency experimented with letting all the jr staff handle a pitch from start to finish. To this day, that pitch is still one of the best pitches I’ve ever worked on. So smooth, calm, great creative no rush at all bc we stuck to our timeline.

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I have never seen any agency-side higher-ups who could be described as competent, even on their best days. I think you have to be missing brain cells to get those jobs.

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Hilarious man

Every single pitch feels like it's the first one the agency has ever done

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Yes. Worse at bigger places.

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