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When my boss called me in the middle of my twins first birthday ( on a Sunday) Sent me into a mild panic attack about a brief he wanted right away. I sent my husband and the sugar rushed kids to the grocery store so I could write in peace. When I asked about the brief on Wednesday since he hadn’t said a word, he casually said he forgot about it. It’s the day I realized I needed to end this vile shit. And I did.
Are you still in advertising?
The day I started working in it.
Watched a CCO and ECD get physical and almost come to blows in front of the whole office. Wait, you said worst?
Ah, BFG?
When a retail client dug into my team on a conference call over TV spots not airing.... due to extensive Hurricane Sandy coverage.
When a client made me explain what a Pizzeria was to a room of 12 other clients and stakeholders.
Leadership stalls stuff. They hire incompetent people. Creating a head of digital is so lame. Everything should be integrated. The fact that they put Ux in production just screams clueless: they don’t understand the value of those disciplines. If they really want to increase their digital footprint, undermining tech, interaction design and content strategy is not the way to go.
When I was asked to do competitive reporting that four team members had previously all delivered in the same timeframe- and when I pushed back, told I wasnt a team player for not working the weekend solo.
Every weekday
When the yogurt client I worked on forced us to come up with bite and smile :15 tv “concepts” in 24 hours after telling us they wanted :30 stories that pushed themselves and made them uncomfortable, and then forced us to use their in-house creative because they liked the word “wow.” I drank so much that day.
The day I got told I had to lay off more than half my team. I fought against it hard with the president of the agency and then at the end told him I needed to take some PTO because I had had a miscarriage during the business trip I went on the week before. And in the middle of that conversation someone barfed into my office to tell me their one of my junior strategists was sick and I had to take them to the hospital.
😥
The day the freelance agency producer sent a confidential email to a vendor saying they were going to get the massive campaign as payback for a favor. Except it was a triple bid, none of the vendors had submitted their bidding materials yet, the creatives and the client certainly didn’t know the “choice” had already been made, and the freelance producer sent that email to the wrong vendor.
When I had to try and hold it together while a massive hurricane wiped out my homeland and i wasn’t able to communicate with my family for over a week. Had a PM yell at me asking why didn’t i send something on time and i snapped at her. She reported me. Got yelled at again by my CD. No one cared about what was going on. Got told to “try not to think about it”
That made my heart bleed and my head hurt. I couldn’t believe it yet I can.
Every day I worked on Verizon direct mail.