Wild if true. Are they going for the slow suicide after stock tanked?

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Is this where we're at? No one can even spot a joke when it's starting them in the face anyone?

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It says WAY more about wpp than anyone here. That's how insanely tonedeaf all of their policies have become.

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Well done, adland. We're now at the same point as the evangelicals who used to share scare stories from The Onion thinking they were real.

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They made my mom destroy my Yu-Gi-Oh! cards when I was 9 :/

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But Liz Taylor is going to Cannes every year!!!! We are so awarded!!!!

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It’s an Adweak joke but damn I wouldn’t be surprised

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/paul-taylor-ab2721163_breaking-wpp-announces-staffers-can-no-longer-activity-7351666921647325185-54FN

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I fear for media literacy if this is the kind of stuff people believe

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Y'all...this "news" item was originally posted on ADWEAK.
It's satire.

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OP, please explain how you thought this was real.

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…anymore they don’t

This is clearly satire. But judging by the comments, maybe we're not so different from the simpletons we love to mock for falling for clickbait and conspiracy posts.

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This was essentially Chiat’s motto back in the day. But what weekend work is actually fruitful at WPP.

Yes!!!!! Hahahaha

This cannot be real

Adweak is our Centel 🤗🤗🤗

If you don’t come in on Saturday don’t bother coming in on Sunday.

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