I won’t ever get promoted because I don’t fit the mold at this place. I’m seen as a renegade. I read and write in blogs despite the fact that there is a no-blogging policy. I question the way that things are being done here, and occasionally make people look stupid (it’s mostly just 1 person) […]

Like many mega-agencis, my company has a bad website. The site title looks more like a description, makes a bit of a preposterous claim and also the meta description tag shows the same thing as the title.
So what did I do about this? I e-mailed around, and figured out which group is responsible for the […]

I work with someone who is at the same level as me, but for some reason gives off the vibe that she’s my superior. I’m sure I’ve mentioned her before, but she is the one who incessantly calls and e-mails me with administrative requests.
Anyway, today I caught an oversight by my group - we had […]

Not all of them, but the ones around me are. They get wined and dined by sales reps and in exchange, they give the the reps business. They get completely manipulated by the industry, and many of them are unaware of it. Um, hello. You work 9-6 and then you spend evenings at dinner with […]

This account is so overstaffed. There are 4 account people doing the work of 1.5 people. This whole week, I’ve been spending about 2 hours per day actually doing work. The funny thing is that there is another person at the same level as me on the account and she stays until 7pm doing work. […]

Yesterday, I was talking to one of my online media friends who does paid search. She’s done only paid search and has never done banner media, so I asked her if she’s interested in branching into other areas of media that aren’t search-specific. Her response was something like, “I don’t think so. I want to […]

Ignoring people is an important skill to cultivate in this industry (and probably others as well). I certainly don’t ignore a lot of people; just people who make me dumber as a result of interacting with them.
There is one person who is in my group and is the same level as me, but since she’s […]

It’s terrible. It’s not nearly targeted enough. Ours is a highly specialized marketing product, which is relevant to probably only one in a thousand business people, yet we have some pretty mainstream news sites on there.
Unfortunately, this account has too many layers making it impossible for me to affect change. Also, I wasn’t hear when […]

The CEO of my mega-ad agency sends company-wide e-mails occasionally. I filter these all into a folder with other company-wide communications and I don’t read any of them. I don’t read them because they never say anything that piques my interest. If I want to spend time reading something that excites me, I’ll read one […]

…is that I can work on my own side-businesses and no one really cares. My boss doesn’t really care whether I’m maximizing the time I spend here. He just wants me to do the job that I’m given, and cover his own back.
At a small, more entrepreneurial shop, I would probably feel more obliged to […]