Omg dear heart - same, babe, to all of this!! I wish we didn’t have to live in fear of a high street solicitor sending us a cease & desist and I could just drop the name(s)
. This is literally it word for word!
Considering all of the above it makes it all the madder how mediocre the work is? Like I’m sure in some instances for creative or tech or PR work the agency structure works if you don’t have the resources/need to build out perm teams yourself (tho there are still issues) but omg the level of work my dept did was literal admin and clients were paying hundreds of thousands for utter tat. And I was still early in my career thinking that, now I just wonder why on earth anyone would enlist them at all? That 5x figure from that video made me lol as it was such an agency standard load of bollocks. This was just before a lot of the big brands started pulling budget from the top x so around your era. I sat in on some shocking client meetings where every single client without fail asked if this was it.
And if it wasn’t that, it was how
tit it was. Embarazzing!
Back in the day when working there I’d just started going out with my now husband and was calling him in tears daily, whilst he was at his actually stressful/important job. He’d tell me just to walk out and ghost them, one Friday it got bad enough I was crying in a cupboard with no light off the stairs seriously considering leaving my keys, bank cards, and VW bag (RIP sweetie
) on my desk and just never coming back, the bag was the only reason I went back and it later got pissed on by an animal so I may as well have left it there
resigned the next week and raised my voice for the first and only time at work because my bully manager had moved onto his next victim and decided to start shouting at him over something in an open plan office! These office bullies must all be domestic abusers in their home lives because they way in which they speak to people is so off key, like all for prison abolition but these cunts need locking up they are unhinged and not safe to be around.
I say this having a decade of experience in horrible industries (media, fashion, tech) so I’m not a lil duckling fresh to the world - advertising is by far the most horrific of industries. Followed by fashion
but that’s for another essay lmao.
It's Facturday so here's a good one..
Happy birthday Sweety-T! 
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