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What department / role at your work gives you the hardest time - or your least fav department to deal with?

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Strategy. Great ones lean into the fact that they are support players for great creative, but some over complicate things to death and introduce so much drag/friction due to intellectual ego. Love my good ones though!!!

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All great responses. But it’s account, sometimes by a lot. Account can be soul crushing and energy draining when it’s run poorly. Being a client’s pet and an unconditional yes-person, treating creative like an assembly line or short-order cook, being a hissy fit-prone reactionary, a thrower under the bus type… these are all horrible traits and unfortunately all too common within account.

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It doesn’t help when creatives imagine they are the only ones who can generate ideas when all they’re doing is regurgitating the same ideas they’ve been pushing for years.

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Anyone who thinks they can design over my shoulder (client or inter-departmental). I am always willing to take feedback and listen to ideas but when I don't want to use this specific font or use a specific photo, you should heed my advice. I have expirience with this, went to school to learn this stuff, I know a bit more about this than you do. I mean, would you go up to a surgeon mid-surgery and say "Hey, I think you should put the heart over there because I like it better," and then hound them about why they didn't do that for the next month?

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The C Suite

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Finance. The answer is always a variation of NO.

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my uber comfort expense got denied because it wasn’t “standard” 💔

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The majority of Creative Directors due to their egos.

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It really depends on the people, but probably account.

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