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First week back from maternity leave: “You left your baby to come back to work? You’re a bad mom.” Also, same week: “I give you 6 months before you quit to be a stay at home mom.”
The coffee machine is broken. (Said on a Monday morning) cruel
‘Enjoy your break, I’m very jealous’..... (re maternity leave)
“It’s cute when women think they can do math."
“You’re funny and a good writer. [long uncomfortable pause]. But maybe not for advertising.”
"[The prospective client] will really like you two blondes. Wear something tight to the meeting."
Sad1 your agency is filled with awful people, where is it so i can avoid it
"You aren't allowed to get pregnant, take a vacation or quit until this project is done." 🖕
Not said to me but to a co-worker while she was pregnant "I dreamt your baby died"
We hear white men’s opinions everyday, we don’t need yours.
(But maybe that’s actually a compliment?)
“I just want to fuck you right now"
“I’m gonna bring in someone a lil’ more ethnic to work on this project instead, they understand the target more.” It was a banner.
Just after coming back from maternity leave: "PADOW girl your boobs looks great!" 🤢🙄 (And yes, he said padow)
SC1 I really, really wanted to say that to somebody once. I didn’t want to crush him but honestly it would have been better for his career in the long run.
Junior Me [after working 48 hours straight, not a pitch]: “I just need a few hours of sleep before the next round of scripts, I’m having trouble thinking”
CD: “Well the work needs to get done .... ”
“Hi are you new?” “No I’ve been here for 3 years.”
“I gave you that idea”
“If you where an abortion this could have been done better.”
@razorfish1 that could be true. But I’ve had many CDs during my career that didn’t think or feel this way about me. He and I just had some glaring creative differences. He also only seemed to like the stuff the bros wrote (which was whole office. I was one of 2 female writers)