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Stop with the unnecessary meetings. PLEASE.
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Stop giving them access to your thinking. Stop giving them opportunities to steal from you. If they ask you something, either answer with a stone cold silent shrug or just reflect questions right back to them. Keep your work outside of shared decks as long as possible. Try to create more one on one convos with your CDs. You are not employed to be a crutch for unethical hacks.
Besides holding companies' casual everyday callousness and greed, the worst part of creative advertising is the way too large contingent of liars, thieves and posers who steal ideas and credit. When anyone pulls this BS we should all do more to call it out, especially on others' behalf.
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Sounds like people at the agency are aware of the reality. Hopefully in time it sorts itself out.
If anything blatant happens, consider calling them out.
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Have faith that this person is in for a short-lived career if they keep this up. Bring back embarrassing people in public.. I’d literally be interrupting them and calling them out right then in there, but I am also a bit of a bold and confrontational person and I understand not everyone is comfortable doing that. This $hit PISSES ME OFF.
I’d also flag this to your CDs, talk to your account friends, and try to mitigate ways to ensure your work, ideas and creative is fully being gate kept from this person. They have officially lost access to you, your brain and your kindness. Closed door discussions with your partner, only. I would be answering ZERO questions from this person, and would be playing dumb from here on out. Try and beat them to creative reviews with your CD too. If you present first, then they can’t steal anything.
I’m not sure I understand. Is the writer taking your ideas / lines and presenting them in reviews with CDs, internal reviews or client presentations? Why aren’t you presenting?
Do you have a safe line of communication with your CD? I think it’s worth mentioning if you feel comfortable enough to do so, and don’t wait on it and let things go. You’ll also probably need to set clear physical boundaries — book rooms, voice things out privately via chat instead of in the writer’s room, do whatever preventive measures within your ability.
Feels like? Or actually is? What’s your involvement in the project?
Sometimes we compete, other times we collaborate. I can point to instances on both occasions where they’ve regurgitated my work as their own. More details in comment above.
Think about your paycheck and let it go. Especially if your company/team treats you well and it isn’t holding you back from promotion.
Thanks - I’ll speak to my therapist about some tactics!
Is the other writer at your level? If so, next time you’re in a group meeting with him/her, keep staring at this writer. It will make them feel uncomfortable enough to ask you what’s going on and then you can say something about what happened. If the other writer is senior to you, get used to it.
They are at my level but I have more experience. I honestly don’t think they would even notice staring - they are quite self absorbed and try to dominate every conversation.
I honestly feel like the only thing that will work is calling attention to it in the moment. Correcting their I’s to “we” mid preso when forced to collaborate or something.
There are more details in my comment above. I’m usually quite collaborative but I just feel this is pretty low, like they’re trying to edge me out of my own ideas because they’ve brought nothing worth making.