What’s the most unhinged task you’ve been asked to do in PR?

I’ll go first - I once had to tour apartments for my client’s son who was moving to New York.

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Call a reporter and ask her not to print what the CEO said on the record. 😒 I refused.

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Obv. Neither of my bosses ever worked as a reporter - unlike my more than a decade of experience. Yet they didn’t believe me. 🙄😒😑

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Convince airport to let me go through the security checkpoint…back to the plane (that I wasn’t on)…
to get a client’s cell phone they “dropped’ (spoiler - no they didn’t) 🙄

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Oh man, the lengths we’ll go to for clients. I’m so impressed!

Staying up until 2am so I could call hairdresser on another continent.

All so the client could get a short-notice appointment, ahead of a media appearance.

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Get out of here!! Just when I thought your wild client experience couldn't get crazier. Wow. I'm honestly speechless 😲

When I was an intern, I had to go get a CEO’s glasses fixed during the day. Literally sprinted to 3 different eyewear stores and finally found one that could fix them. It was a devil wears Prada moment for sure.

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Haha absolutely incredible. Hopefully they were appreciative!!

I had to run out to buy cat treats for "Socks" and specific Celestial Seasonings teas for First Lady Hillary Clinton when she visited my workplace during President Clinton's term.

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Can't say too much because of client confidentiality, but I worked for a very recognizable political figure who had an op-ed placed and wanted it in print. So I went to the world's sketchiest corner market in a not great part of town because that is the only place I could find it.

It’s always the sketchiest places that sell print publications! I don’t get why it’s so hard to find

"Beautify" a document because the senior executive is apparently not good at Microsoft word. I left the job after a year and half. 😭

LOL the worst. Reminds me of a client I had who would call to ask us to change the date on the first slide in his PowerPoints because he didn’t know how to edit the text 😭

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