What’s your agency doing for end-of-year/holiday gifts?

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Not laying us off

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That’s only a gift they’re giving to some of us

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Closing the week between and $2000 bonus

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Extra work?

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Fender guitars, RayBans, Small BBQs and 10 other gifts

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And the agency is shut down (mostly) from 12/19 to 1/2

Laying us off

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Closing the whole week between is good enough for me.

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They just gave me a brief for a new pitch which I need to present on December 28th.

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Holiday party / dinner

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Lay offs.

Letting me stay around for who knows how much longer..

Last year we got nothing but weekend work.

Giving me January and possibly even a few more months off.

A holiday party in the office

- X'mas party remain cancelled since pendamic, and replaced with gift card of our own store (retail in house)
- "Oh we have budget left for the year, let's do something" campaign
- and no extra day off between X'mas and new year like a norml agency, because we're in house

Closed 12/23-1/2. I will take that!

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