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You know how whenever people talk about what they like about advertising or an agency, they often say it’s the people? There’s truth in that. If you haven’t worked in other industries, you can look at the cross-industry bowls to realize this.
But there are some people in the industry who are the worst type of people: insecure yet arrogant. They love themselves yet also hate themselves, creating a tension that they take out on everyone else around them. At every agency there is a team being led by one of these types, and you can tell by how much the spark in the eyes of those who work under them slowly leave.
this is so spot on.
For me it’s that nothing is ever enough. You just won a Gold Lion? Next year let’s win two. You brought 10 ideas to the first creative check in? How come it wasn’t 20? You worked 65 hours last week? Next time make it 70 so we can push the work a bit further. Oh you pulled like four all-nighters this week and wrapped 10 jobs and your clients are all super happy? Well too bad the other three things you were working on got pushed off by a couple days and now our award season is RUINED. We were runner up for Agency of the Year? Next year let’s win it even though we’ve had four rounds of layoffs this year and no one got promoted and also no bonuses and also our summer and holiday parties suck now.
That part! And that we are all expendable no matter what. Even if you hold your whole brand up, you become just a number on a spreadsheet if they do layoffs, which has become increasingly often.
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SC1, racial bias is extremely hard to prove.
If you’re a Black person who gets told “they’re difficult” or “aggressive” are they these things? Or, is that stereotype just so pervasive that they naturally get pegged as such?
If you’re a woman with a kid who is constantly being passed over for big opportunities, but you’re working nights and weekends with everyone else. You’re constantly delivering. How do you prove that it’s because people assume you’re too distracted with your kids to handle the project?
Discrimination is much easier to prove because it involves a cognizant actions. The other would take the gathering specific chains of events and patterns to prove. And, even then, it can be a tough sell.
Lack of work/life balance and unpredictability. There are days when I'm off at 5 and days when I'm stuck working until 10, and often I don't know which kind today is going to be until midafternoon.
Whoa
Mostly the people