My managers piss poor communication skills is making me want to quit on the spot. Is this level of dysfunction common in advertising?

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Yeah, lol. Eventually you’ll experience breakdowns in communication between accounts, client and creative.

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Lol good to know because right now is the worse ive ever seen 😭

Yes

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Sometimes it’s about learning how to communicate with someone very different than you in terms of brain chemistry and personality. What’s the problem exactly? Examples?

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Address it head on. Sounds like you need to be more proactive if you want to work better with this person and talk face to face instead of messaging

Half of my job is just deciphering people’s messages, requests and emails, and then trying to hone my psychic abilities to predict the next move, meeting or regroup they decide to spontaneously throw at me.

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ML1- clients do that to me all the time 😪 like, this email thread didnt have to be so long lol

Completely

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Most managers are unequipped to manage because companies assume it’s something people innately know how to do. Which, LOL.

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Humans need to figure it out in a collaborative way. Sorry/not sorry. We are blessed to have “clients” that pay for your privilege to work at the agency. Make it work, speak up, be solving not complaining. Create a culture. Or start your own where you make the rules and have clients. Which is what I do. 😉

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