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Absolutely. I find whenever I challenge our team and kind of try to make a point, I have to say something agreeable to get them to disarm themselves, like whatever the agency ultimately decides, I’m going to get on board with it. We will all approach this from one, united angle. But I at least want to talk this through and, you know, discuss reality. Otherwise people get so fired up that they aren’t being agreed with.
I think this is the most irritating thing of human society in general, not allowing different POVs to exist and not knowing people with different POVs can live together just as well
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The nice thing about being support staff is that not only do people not expect you to agree with them, they don’t care whether you do.
Ha ha sad but true!
It’s even more frustrating when you repeatedly make concessions for them, e.g., allowing them to disagree with something you share, and they either fail to recognizes it or simply refuse to reciprocate
X2 bonus if said person is your boss, and then during review time says "you think in black and white when things are shades of gray"
Disagreements in agencies are an issue because people in an agency have different goals.
For example, at many agencies I get in disagreements account because their goal, right or wrong, is to please the client at their word. My goal is to make the best creative I think possible to answer the brief. So someone will lose in this situation, and shocker, it’s often me.
However, I have had work experiences where everyone in the agency put the creative first, and what a difference it made. I could have debates and differences in opinions with my colleagues and it was all welcome because I knew the person across the table from me ultimately, like me, wanted to make the work the best it could be and sell it to the client.
Half my family are Republicans and half are Democrats. We all get along because we learned to listen to others’ POV - even if we are clenching our teeth and trying not to roll our eyes.
Reminded me of an incident that happened at work recently. We had a presentation with the suits after a separate internal session. After the presentation, the CD told my copy partner "If you're not going to include my suggestion, you should've told me". After that, said CD basically forced us to include his "suggestion" as Route 2. It was a suggestion, we took it into consideration and felt like it didn't fit with the narrative we were going for, and reworked the idea.
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But it was a suggestion, we tried it and it didn't work. Creatives should still have autonomy over their work. Just because they're a CD, doesn't mean they can't be wrong. Of course the CD's opinion and feedback matters, but if it can be improved, why not make it better? To me, a CD should be able to be objective and review their creative's work and give constructive feedback using their experience and not force their ideas when it clearly doesn't work. Then there's not really a need to hire creatives if you're not going to utilize what they have to offer both skills wise and creativity wise, you just need puppets to execute your ideas, not people who can think. The issue for me is being in a leadership position and not being objective about the work the team has done and also not being receptive to feedback from the team.
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But there is in “MEAT PIE.”