It’s not every day that you read a first person account of someone getting fired from a Madison Avenue shop. People usually go away quietly, and you hear about it from your colleagues the next day. You may hear that they did this or that wrong, but it’s often hearsay; unconfirmed and you never hear […]

I got fired yesterday. They didn’t give me an explicit reason other than that there were budget cuts and that I wasn’t living up to my title. However, when I asked the guy, my boss’ boss for some more specific examples, he didn’t have any because he had apparently heard it second hand. So I’d […]

I think the only responsibility I have at this place is to show up in the morning. How can an account manager not have any client responsibilities. It baffles me.

I report to 2 different people and they have both been fairly detached since I started, hence the lack of responsibilities that I have. One of them has never responded to any of my e-mails since I’ve started working here roughly 2 months ago. Then, yesterday, he went to check his snail-mail box, which happen […]

I got to meet the Chairman and CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands, our umbrella company this morning for a group breakfast. It was great to meet such an impactful and high profile person and confirm that she is indeed human. I got to get a glimpse into the daily efforts and struggles of someone […]

All of our initiatives for July and August have been canceled, and we aren’t doing anything until September. For the one big project that I’m on, which is still currently a go, I don’t have any client responsibilities, and since I’m in account management, that equates to having no responsibility. My timesheets for the foreseeable […]

You don’t frequently hear about how well the advertising holding companies are doing so much as you do with individual agencies. An article in Ad Age about Interpublic’s declining stock price made me hope onto Yahoo Finance to do a quick comparison of stock price over the past ear. The result of that is easy […]

I was having lunch in one of the open areas in the building today and was sitting next to a few people whom I didn’t know, so of course I evesdropped on their conversation.
One of them is working on a new business pitch. As part of the pitch, they conducted some focus group research. However, […]

I appreciate the extension to hang out with my co-workers after hours to play softball with them, but honestly, the last thing I want to do after a day of work is to spend more time with corporate types. When I was at a smaller, lighter-hearted shop, I didn’t mind as much. We were all […]

I was at an ad party recently and met up with a friend who works at another mega-ad-agency under the same umbrella as mine. Then I met her boss and my friend told him that I had interviewed at their agency a while back. “And they didn’t hire you? I would’ve hired you,” is what […]