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Beam Suntory: they’re the client where every meeting is essentially: "We know everything. You know nothing. Just do what we tell you and keep your POVs to yourself. Oh, and we are going to nickel & dime you on every expense while disputing every invoice we get.”

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PowerBar: about 15 years ago, they created a cemetery mural on their office wall for Halloween. On the tombstones, they wrote the names of all 5 of the agencies they had fired in the past 5 years, leaving the last one with our name on it and a question mark underneath it. Just pure assholery at its finest.

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I think about this a lot.

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Samsung global. Horrible people who make horrible work.

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ALL TELECOM.
beware. it’s life changing.

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VERIZON

UUUUGGGHHHHHHH

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Coke. And I don’t mean the good kind.

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Any casual dining chain with a franchisee committee.

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ABI. Specifically Bud Light.

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Nissan

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Samsung. Hands down

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Kimberly Fucking Clark

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I had a client get so pissed I had to charge additional fees for revisions after approval that she started crying on the phone told me I was being rude and hung up. QSR clients

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Samsung, NA out of NY...the worst.

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Samsung. Colgate.

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@OP ABI. Specifically Bud Light lmao

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PepsiCo. Or any client who says how ‘disappointed’ because they don’t know how to work with an agency.

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Pizza Hurt, I mean Hut.

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Hyatt Hotels. The WHOLE portfolio

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Accenture

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Nestle

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HP Inc

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Client: We want a postcard promoting “events near you” using a msg that drips with the city’s local vibe

Us: easy enough, whereabouts?

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"This is really missing the story telling” - response to a :06 with :03 end tag.

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No one beats McDonald’s! ABSOLUTELY NO ONE! They’re like the old frat boys that show up to the party and think they still got it but they are really the creepy uncles.

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“I should be getting your paycheck."

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CMO told me to give the agency feedback: “There’s no there there. It needs more.”

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“We want push boundaries with this rebrand”

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“Ya I could have made these in Word”

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Sprint is still the absolute worst. Never before have I wished incurable gonorrhea on such a lousy lot

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