What was something EXTREMELY DOUCHEY (client work or action) you did in the last 5-10 years which made total sense at the time but now you look back on it with regret and cringes? 😨😒😕

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Went to my boss' boss to complain about my boss.

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In the middle of the recession I helped sell subprime credit cards to people who had no business taking more credit

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Clients directed us to buy media on an 18-24 demo for a beer account, and told us to "just call it 21-24"... so we did. So sketch, and I'm pretty sure illegal.

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almost everything

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At another employer, I was asked to convince the client that mobile wasn't very important because the project wasn't resourced correctly, even though the SOW clearly stated we'd provide a full mobile site. I was successful, but it ate a part of my soul and was one of the things that made me leave that company.

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10 years ago I was DJing edm on the side, and I would wear shredded Diesel jeans and too-tight t-shirts to my club gigs. Seemed relevant at the time, but in retrospect, this was incredibly douchey. I was also 33 at the time, so it was 2x douchey.

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only work related?

Saatchi... please do share 😁

A year after I left an agency, I found a mistake in one of the ads my old team made. I posted a photo of it to Facebook, and people got really mad and it was a crisis. Yeah....

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