How do you deal with account people who are bad at their jobs? I’m sick of working late to clean up their mess

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If it’s a very very bad case, I complain to the ECD or CCO (I work at a small agency). Then, miraculously, that account person is the nicest, best person in the whole wide world.

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This. Go up your chain of command in Creative, preferably with documentation. Let your boss fight the battles with other departments.

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Seems like a slow series of documented failures to me. And at review time, trot out those events in solid detail.

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It’s a sad state of affairs when a rank-and-file person has to notify the C-level that something is wrong. Agencies already have all the info to sniff this out, in the form of time sheet data. If you see a particular account consistently has a lot of extra hours and weekend work, I bet you the briefs are rushed and overpromises are being made.

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This is an easy one. Go straight to your CCO.

Context. What don’t you think they are doing

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Hi fishes!

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