What's the most universally disliked role in an agency?

(I feel it's a mid-level strategist... the kind who think "creative ideas can come from anywhere!" But y'all probably think it's me 💩)

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I can’t say dislike but I kinda don’t care for some of the strategists I’ve worked with. Not because they think they are creative or they are annoying. But just because I feel like they don’t really come up with great insights. I’ve been working at my current agency for a while and year after year our briefs are the same. Like it can literally be for any product or I️ can pull a brief from two years ago and it will have the exact same words. So we just end up shotgunning ideas because anything goes. The good thing is they never get in our way and say something is “off strategy” because there is no damn strategy.

Re: account. I’ve had great and bad account people. Good ones are so good that I can never say I hate the department.

I try to see every one who works on my project as a member of my team. So my projects tend to go smoothly.

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Lol @mm1 you think you have it alllll figured out, dontcha cookie?

I feel like the most loathed role is usually someone very high up, who doesn’t seem to do much, yet is paid an obscene amount of money to show up in a pitch meeting every blue moon and blow up an idea or two and talk for 25 minutes about some great campaign he saw 5 years ago. There’s been one at literally every agency Ive ever worked at.

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Whoever hassles you for timesheets

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Any person, in any role, who takes this too seriously.

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Accounts. Good account folks are worth their weight in gold, but yes men are a dime a dozen.

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account dept. the only discipline that requires zero specialty skills or education. simply know how to use email and ms office.

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How is this even up for debate? You know the answer is accounts

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The people who say ‘I’ in emails rather than ‘we'

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Creative ideas can come from anywhere though?

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@CD1: I see your rejected timesheets and raise you rejected expenses.

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Ya well a strategy can come from anywhere, and anyone can talk to a client, and everyone can do math. I mean sure an idea can come from anywhere but a creative unique original idea that is well thought out, no. It comes from creative.

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Nobody bitches more than creative; account puts everyone in bad spots and media typically doesn’t care about creative as much as anyone else. We all have our pain points and yet each a unique talent where we all have to work together.

Ps it’s mostly high school math but creative and account somehow manages to be scared or completely lost.

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Nah. Mid level strat

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People with a bad attitude, doesn't really matter what their real title is. The negative Nancies bring us all down.

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@CD1 Soooo...Finance? No timesheet= no revenue for the projects you’re working on Take a 5 minute beer break and submit your damn timesheets.

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Social media strategists. Broad knowledge of a lot things, not deep knowledge of anything, but want to be involved in the entire process.

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Or cso.

Bad strategists are entirely useless and I also loathe them.

Timid or fearful account people are the absolute worst though.

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Innovation Officers 🧟‍♂️

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Sucks to see so many of you hating on coworkers you feel are below you. Your "brilliant" ideas would never see the light of day if you didn't have these people working hard to make things happen. And no, not just anyone can ralk to clients or "do math." Can you imagine if payroll was left in the hands of some creatives? We'd never get paid.

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Totally second SAD2

And I love math. So try me.

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