Complete confidence
I have a friend who is a media planner at a big-ass ad agency just like the one that I am at. However, unlike me, she is utterly devoted to her company and for some reason thinks that it is the Harvard of ad agencies. “I’m very focused on my career,” is what she tells me. She believes that if she stays there and does her job, she’ll slowly climb the ladder until she has an office and some long title.
I want to tell her that mega-ad agencies are lifeless creatures that hardly care about your well-being and that they’d kick you to the curb if the account that you’re on (which, she doesn’t even have any client contact on mind you) goes south. However, dashing a poor girl’s dreams like that might be a tad evil.