Bouncing off the flat-earther ECD post, what’s the most insane/unbelievable thing you’ve ever found out about your boss?

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I still think that ECD was majorly f..king with that poster in a really elaborate and cruel but also hilarious prank. I most certainly hope so!

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I honestly don't want to 😂😂😂

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I used to freelance for a now defunct pharma agency in Newport Beach, Ca. Extremely (to me) right-wing culture behind the Orange Curtain.

One day the CEO tells me her son has epilepsy. My sister has epilepsy. I know everything there is to know about epilepsy.

CEO says that Jesus cured her son’s epilepsy, and if I were a better Christian maybe it’d cure my sister too.

So, of course I told her it’ll be back with puberty. No idea if I was right, but it felt right at the time.

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her Jesus is super vindictive

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Some CD just posted in this bowl not knowing what Wieden + Kennedy is. Does that count?

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No, SC1, I asked who did the bud light commercial. Because it’s horrible. I didn’t know, or really care, who did it because I don’t read trades.

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> flat-earther ECD

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Maybe they blocked out the thread with some tin foil.

Found out the president of the agency never worked at an advertising agency. That explains a lot.

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VaynerMedia?

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I’ve mentioned before: President of agency believed he could heal with his hands. No joke. Made his “pretending to be terminally ill” partner seem almost sane.

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😂 I hate to laugh because he probably also had massive emotional/mental health or personality disordered issues going on.

Had an ECD who was hired to run a TV-heavy account who had never made a TV commercial

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CCO hits coke in between meetings and presentations...

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CCyayO

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that his face was the model for the Burger King King... never could unsee that after I learned it.

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My old CD (owner of the agency) was the original voice of Jack Box. Relating to this.

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That he was hiding his real name - Douglas.

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