Has anyone had a partner they didn’t get along with and been able to change partners at an agency? Or does the agency just not care and make you deal with it until you leave? Asking for not a friend whatsoever.

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Yes, no, yes. You play nice through the pain.

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Like AD 2 mentioned. You’re nice through the pain. I invited them out to lunch/whenever I picked up a coffee down the street even though I knew they’d refuse. People saw me inviting them out/ complimenting their work. They were talented, but they eventually became a “difficult” person to work with and it reflected badly on them. After some time nobody liked them and they left. Don’t be the person talking crap, their own actions will reveal themselves.

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You can definitely voice it and get reassigned but it might screw you on the backend in terms of what account you’re allocated to, etc.

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Nope. Nobody cares. I had a copy partner that was a raging thundercunt, but she was at least good at the job. I had to kill her with kindness, and waited her out.

I also had partners that were incompetent, and had to wait them out as well.

Keep a paper trail always, just in case.

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Agency doesn’t care. Make it work.

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Figured as much.

If your boss is the kind of person who is looking out for you and your career, they should be able to help you make a switch. Mine did. Now, I just wish I’d said something sooner.

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CDs have to pull a lot of weight to make that happen. I just did it for a mid level on my team and now my GCD and director of resourcing do not like me. Now I’ve spent my “favor” and they’re less likely to help me help my mid levels in the future with partners/accounts/etc.

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It depends on a bunch of different factors. I’ve been in a situation where my partner and I did not get along, but they also weren’t contributing and I ended up writing a majority of our work. They were fired, and I was able to help hire on a new partner. I have also seen both members of a team get let go for not getting along and not proactively trying to make it better.

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This happened to me- expressed frustrations to my CD, mentioned I felt like it was holding me back, they brought it to the CCO and they immediately made a swap within the agency for me and it was night and day, in a good way. The old partner kept their job, just had a different account they were better on. It all worked out!

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My partner sucked, I voiced it and we were quietly reassigned. We’re still cool, we just didn’t work well together. Leadership agreed it wasn’t a good fit, I had receipts to prove it was more than just a personality thing. All depends on the place you’re at and how they run their department.

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You get one shot to get a new partner. If your next partner also sucks, it will look like you’re the problem. Choose when to raise your hand wisely.

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I don’t think it’s so much that the agency doesn’t care that you’re paired up with a bad AD, as much as is it they just want you two to work it out. True story: at a Publicis agency, I (a writer) with paired up with an ACD of Art. I have NEVER worked with someone so RACHET, and so self-centered. She would use her own copy, not mine— and English was not her first language, and it showed. I had the misfortune of teaming up with her for two different pitches. When she did use my copy, the art and layout was second rate, clearly giving preference and time to her own stuff. I was soooo pissed. I had never ever been so disrespected by another creative before. I thought of either telling our ECD before the pitch that I cannot put my name on this work or that I do not stand by this work, etc. But ultimately, I realized that leadership doesn’t care, doesn’t give a sh** about that, and they don’t want to hear about personality clashes. In the end, I was never able to throw her under the bus, and was so sorta glad. One day, we were on a Teams call about our ideas (just me and her) and the call was not going well, per usual. (It happened 3 yrs ago, so some details are blurred.) Very calmly and politely I explained to her that she and I were not collaborating well, nor harmoniously….blah blah blah. Long story short, she end up crying, on-camera, in front of me. I realized that she was really trying the best that she could and wasn’t aware of what a monster she was to me. I didn’t call her a monster. I didnt have to. Her tears said everything.

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