Related Posts
Conversation Starter
Anyone know the raise amounts for BCG yet?
Hi All,
Looking to make the move from working in industry to big4 and was curious as to what level and pay I might be worth?
I have 10 years experience out of uni, as well as completed CPA and MBA. I have a experience in managing entire finance function of small/medium entities, but most notably solid corporate finance experience/strategy leading refinance exercises, debt raising, hedging/treasury strategy etc…Would be looking for something in deal advisory / M&A / CFO advisory etc….thanks Deloitte EY PwC @
Additional Posts in Advertising
Wet mouth noises...😖😖😖🗯🔥
Anomaly, good move or no?
New to Fishbowl?
Download the Fishbowl app to
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
unlock all discussions on Fishbowl.
When I was a CD I had a CCO who scouted me from another agency. Said all the right things, gave all the promises, I’m sending you to Cannes, etc. At the very first client presentation as soon as the client questioned the idea, the CCO immediately threw the entire creative department under the bus, TOLD THE CLIENT “I didn’t think it was going to work either but we allow our creatives to fail” and then pitched his own idea. I quit the next day. The look on the CCOs face when I proceeded to call him out and blast him for not standing up for the team, and being the worst CCO I’ve ever seen gave me a little satisfaction. It’s sad but a lot of junior and mid-level creatives don’t even know that this is horrible. They just take it.
I also vowed never to be like that CCO when I got to be a CCO. So I guess there’s always a silver lining.
What is their position in relation to you? And, how closely do you work? I think it depends on that and what boundaries you can implement to better protect your sanity.
For what it’s worth, there’s someone on another team, but is adjacent, and is both ineffective and beyond grating. So, you’re not alone! I don’t feel like these people are rare. I just try to keep my side of the street clean and ignore.
I didn't leave but I had a co-worker who asked to be present for my layoff meeting. I will never forgive or forget that, and I know karma will catch up with the fickle minded.
Wow, that feels unethical for a company to allow or at the very least, a morally sour thing to do. Sorry that happened to you.
For a wild seven-month period I worked at a large-sized agency. On my first day there, my supervisor had to inform me that she'd given their two-weeks notice the day before. That meant that their partner (not the same discipline as me) essentially became my defacto supervisor. This person was a notorious d-bag around the office, and by the time they got an official replacement for my supervisor, that person kind of asborbed the d-bag-ness. They were just condescending, arrogant, constantly playing mind games. Once I realized this was like a poison permeating the office I was out.
I had a similar situation however, i had been at my job for years when my supervisor left and a new person was promoted to their position. It was toxic. I ended up staying. My one and only review from this person was horrible amongst all past reviews that were stellar. I can’t help but think that a few years later when layoffs were happening I was part of it - due to this review.
You could try and get leadership or others in positions of power to notice their ineffectiveness in the hopes they get canned.
Yes.
not for coworkers but i would for a manager
I once worked on an account in which the team was composed of myself, a designer, a project manager, and a brand director (who usually had minions that worked across several accounts fill in for her, while we were de facto 100% allocated to this luxury brand and its email marketing.) mind you, this was technically separate from my actual team, and though I clocked some overtime, finance would flag every week and it became a total nightmare. I don’t blame finance for this, or my manager tbh because *in theory* Three emails /week with similar messaging/different audience segments should be rather plug and play. But the pm had no respect for the creatives, berating us in front of internal and external teams, complying with every ridiculous (sometimes linguistically incorrect) edits the client had. I appealed to everyone, no one did anything . I quit, not giving any weeks notice and having the audacity of the pm email my personal line, well after I was gone, asking for edits as a personal favor.