What is the most chaotic/unhinged/toxic/unprofessional thing you’ve ever experienced working in advertising? I feel like the stories are more juicy in media than creative, but that’s just my opinion.

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Droga v. Diet Madison Ave was absolutely unhinged and toxic AF.

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This sounds great what was this all about?

This can be tough to answer without indirectly revealing identities, so maybe once this godforsaken industry burns down for good we can all sit around the fire and tell some stories. 😂

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Going to a shoot where the ECD was so high he slept in his bath tub.

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After parties at strip clubs, mud wrestling and all kinds of debauchery

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All the cheating at Cannes this year?

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I once had my ECD boss tell me to only come to the last half of client meetings. Then they went to client and said despite my work I clearly wasn’t dedicated to the account and asked them to fire me off the account. They had been getting increasingly nervous about how close I was getting to the client, others warned me, but I could never imagine they’d instruct me to come later to sabotage me. I seriously considered self harm for about a year after that because I thought they were my friend/ looked up to them as a female creative.

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