@Ladies creatives, have you ever written to R/GA Chloe asking for work? With so much talk about diversity, am wondering if there's any action to back it up.

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"Not to be snarky" my ass. This is Fishbowl dude, get off your high horse.

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CW1... just coz you start with the phrase “not to be snarky” and say something absolutely snarky right after, doesn’t make it any less snarky. It’s pretty much the equivalent of saying “no offense” and there’s a100% chance of saying something offensive.

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RGA as an org is crazy sexist! So her presence has done zero to help women. She gets a ton of press though.

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Why do we writers desire support of our snarkiness? CW1, the support is here, just not for your comment 👍

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OP diversifying a department isn’t enough. It has to be the entire agency or you are just dropping more women and POC into a super discriminatory environment. They will leave quickly! That’s why 3% bugs the shit out of me. They only talk about diversity in the Creative dept not the entire agency/ industry.

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Thank you all for making me laugh. OP, you’ve not chimed in yet, but looks like you don’t need to. What a supportive crowd. Hope you all have a wonderful day!

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Lol. Yeah. We're the assholes here.

Anyway I can't answer the original question. But I can point you to Chloe (and many many others') current initiative at TimesUpAdvertising.com, where it appears things are actually starting to take shape a bit. They're kicking things off with a 14-city industry-wide discussion forum. If you want to attend I'm sure you'll be able to find some of the answers you're looking for. Call it what you want, but seems much more action than propaganda to me.

Full disclosure I'm an R/GA employee. I hear plenty of Chloe's rah rah, so I was skeptical too. But, it seems to me that this is a step in the right direction.

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The only thing RGA is good at is self-promotion.

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This is fishbowl dude, be savage

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@SC1 thanks for chiming in and trying to be helpful, but I'd rather get an interview rather than attend a forum. Not into ambushing at events either. Not my style.

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SC1 simply because you have not experienced discrimination at RGA doesn’t mean that others haven’t. Trust when women report.

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She is all about the press

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*Leia

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Next time, if you burn, you burn!!!!

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🙄 to the skywalker reference.

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Jeeez, look at all the Luke Skywalkers who came to my rescue. I posted this as a nugget to discuss this aspect of "here's a very public declaration about my commitment to diversifying my department" vs the reality that things are just the same. Propaganda vs Reality.

I don't get the Luke Skywalker thing 🤷‍♀️

"Hello, I'm Luke Skywalker, and I'm here to rescue you." (To Princess Leah).

@CL1 I meant I was skeptical of Chloe and gang's "solution". Not skeptical as to whether or not the underlying issue existed or needed addressing.

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