Well, after six years of ambling along here, punctuated only by four job offers from the same agency (who obviously thrive on rejection), it has been announced that I am to have my review. On Friday. Now: I don’t WANT to have my review on Friday – and the reason for this is simple. I see-saw [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Fearless Leader’
And That’s How I Resigned In A Fit of Pique
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Appraisal, Fearless Leader on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
“And Now: Gnawing Off Our Scrotums!”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Box-TIcking Account Guy, Conference, Fearless Leader on July 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Fearless Leader, Box-Ticking Account Guy and I headed off to a conference last week: the highlight of which was the breath-takingly vulgar hotel in which it was to take place. “Your conference is taking place in The Astor Ballroom, just through The Warhol Bar” smiled the (very pretty) Receptionist. I held her gaze a while [...]
Birthday Boy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best PA in the World, Birthday, Daughter, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Family, Fearless Leader, Old Friend at Work, Royal Albert Hall, Swearing Account Director, The Messiah, Wife on December 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m 39. I began the day with a fantastic pile of presents from the children (ie: from Wife), with Daughter providing a commentary to my opening of every present that was expertly timed to reveal what the content of each parcel was JUST before I opened it: “That one’s a book, Daddy.”; “That one’s chocolates…” [...]
Highs and Lows
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, American Diva Planning Friend, Fearless Leader, Langkawi, Old Friend at Work, Planning, The Smallest Media Planner in the World on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I’ve just returned from the Malaysian island of Langkawi: a ludicrously idyllic spot where we held a conference – or what American Diva Planning Friend refers to as “Fearless Leader’s Prom” (and it is true that Fearless Leader approaches it with all the excitement and soon-to-be-disappointed expectations of a young girl trembling on the doorstep before [...]
Prague
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Exhausted Creative Director, Fearless Leader, Prague, Woody A on February 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fearless Leader, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director and I all went to Prague last week, ostensibly to assess our local agency’s suitability for handling specific projects but (as it turned out) actually farting around and having a marvellous time with our people from the Agency, including the much-missed Permanently Exhausted Creative [...]
The Workplace Christmas Skulker
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Christmas Presents, Fearless Leader, Old Friend at Work on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am the Workplace Christmas Skulker. In simple terms, this means that when “required” to give a Christmas present to someone at work, I fudge the issue completely. There are a couple of approaches to the presentation of gifts in the workplace, all of which I have encountered recently, none of which I can “pull [...]
Indifference As An Art Form
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planner, Fearless Leader, Workshop on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The day I had on Tuesday beggars belief. There is a brand (that I don’t work on) that needed a little extra help, and so I had been conscripted (entirely against my very busy will) to get involved in trying to sort that out by the redoubtable Fearless Leader. So I ended up agreeing to [...]
Fearless Leader – At Home
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bangkok, Fearless Leader, Singapore on June 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday saw Wife and I; Mr. and Mrs. Global Client; Mr. and Mrs. Sofa Gonk; and Mrs. and Mr. Fearless Leader dining together at Fearless Leader’s home. What could have very easily turned into either an unremarkable episode of “Terry and June” (a series in which The Boss seemed to be expected for dinner on [...]
Sorry. What’s the Question?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Favourite Client, Fearless Leader on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saturday, 23rd June 2007 Now: I should say up front that my current Client is the best I have worked with in my career. The level of ability, the intelligence and the inclination to buy creatively excellent ideas in an atmosphere of openness and equality cannot be bettered. It’s a dream job. However: it has [...]
