People who work in advertising, but in non-advertising roles (HR, Finance, etc.): What do you think of ad agency world?

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hellscape lol. creatives are so self important and get away with murder, while everyone else is micromanaged and held to inane standards of behavior. it makes life insufferable for everyone who’s not “a creative” even when the creatives’ work is terrible

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This is a hot take! Obviously I’m a creative here. While I experience my own form of micromanagement and irrational expectations for how I should get things done, I can only imagine the amount of micromanagement non-“creative” people have to deal with on the back end. I really respect the people in HR, operations, finance, etc because they matter just as much as we do — and I know for damn sure I couldn’t do it 🤣

Appreciate the work you do, whatever that work is. Sorry to hear this is your experience, and really hope that somethings done to make the work culture better.

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commenting to come back when someone chimes in 👀

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Nothing is actually urgent stop saying everything is urgent. Also try to stand up to a client for once.

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Yessssss

It’s pretty insufferable as a creative too, don’t worry

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Same

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It’s aggressive and I love it. OP - what do you think of the ad agency world?

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Disorganized chaos

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