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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Old Friend at Work’
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 »
Work/Life Balance
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Old Friend at Work on January 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was talking to Old Friend at Work about someone who she works with. She was saying how much she likes this person, while simultaneously finding their professional ability somewhat lacking, not to say (eventually) irritating: and it was with that she coined the phrase “My would-be friend and professional Nemesis”. Brava.
Farewell, then – you bearded twat.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Creative Directors, Old Friend at Work on January 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It was announced yesterday that the Creative Director of one of our agencies is leaving: pushed, rather than jumped, it seems. It’s about time: I worked with him a couple of times and have seldom been so struck by the division between reputation and reality. Here are a couple of reasons to celebrate the bearded [...]
The Return
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, New Year's Resolutions, Old Friend at Work, Travesty of All Things Gay, Woody Allen in Robert de Niro's Body Creative Director on January 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My return to work is imminent. I have already had lachrymose e-mails from both Old Friend At Work and Woody Allen in Robert de Niro’s Body Creative Director on this subject – and the consensus is that we are not filled with joys at the impending return, nor are we simply going to go ahead [...]
“That’s Not My Wife”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Drunk, Old Friend at Work, Wife on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A plan to meet up with Old Friend At Work didn’t work out – but thinking about her, and how long we have known each other, reminded me of one of the stranger evenings that we have had. It was a dark, Winter night – and OFAW and I were rounding off an evening out [...]
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 [...]
Titifalaka
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Etiquette, Goodbye, Ludicrously Chic Creative Director, Old Friend at Work on September 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am pretty good on global etiquette. I’m strong on the whole”two-handed business card”, the “Mein Herr and the Herr Doktor” thing and all that that entails – but there is one thing that stills confounds me: saying goodbye to Latin American men. We’re way past handshakes, but that doesn’t mean that one goes straight [...]
How DARE She?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Old Friend at Work on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday, 2nd April 2007 Oh the thrill of irrational hatred! Old Friend At Work was reeling off reasons for her bottomless hatred for a colleague (someone whom she is forced to work with fairly closely), and having run through a number of true, inarguable and well-founded reasons why this person must die, followed up with [...]
“We Open On WHAT?”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crative Review, Old Friend at Work on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday, 6th June 2007 There’s an old joke in advertising (and like most jokes in advertising, it’s not terribly funny) that when Creatives present a script to you, it will begin “We open on a beach in The Bahamas”. It’s typically a move that teams tasked with writing a script for something utterly mundane will [...]
