Good Friend in PR was over in London recently. As ever, it was good to see him and we had a great time in a variety of river-based locations from Chiswick to the Royal Festival Hall. However, there was a bit of grit in the oyster – in terms of his assessment of THIS VERY [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Planning’
Nastying Up
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Good Friend in PR, Planning, Process, Routine on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Client Bi-Polar Disorders
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AC Milan Hotel, Advertising Agency, Clients, Milan, Planning on December 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s “the run-up to Christmas”, which means that the stupid requests from Clients are coming thick (sometimes, so staggeringly thick that “dumb” might be a better descriptor) and fast. There is something about “getting it done before Christmas” that makes Clients feel reassured and in control – the fact that they won’t review the work [...]
Not India. Just Not India.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Planning, China, Family, India, Planning, Travesty of All Things Gay, Wife on July 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was talking to Matey Planner, about how things were going at work. Having spent the first half hour of what was meant to be a friendly and relaxed discussion over a coffee sounding off over the terrible experiences with Travesty of All Things Gay and various other wounds, we turned to things that I [...]
Moving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Moving Office, Planning on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So… for the ninth time in nearly three years, I am moving offices. Normally, there is a specious, meretricious justification for the move. “Planning and Creative need to sit together!”, “Planning needs its own identity!”, “Worldwide should feel like part of London!” (the unintentional hubristic comedy of this point still eludes those people who run [...]
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 [...]
Saying “Yes”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Planners, Planning, Yes on July 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Two new Planners have joined my team – and the difference that their arrival has made has been staggering. It isn’t so much the workload that I notice (I have got used to, and then got good at, getting through an awful lot in very little time), it is the difference that it makes to [...]
Changing My Mind
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Fembot, Planning on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really hope that I’m not going to have to change my mind again. I am massively judgemental and absolute in my views on people – and I don’t enjoy having to re-think that position. However, it turns out that Fembot is actually not just super-efficient and good at her job (which always gets my [...]
Madrid. Again.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Frenchman Who Wants To Be Spanish, Madrid, Planning on June 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wednesday sees a big presentation to a big Client. However, in about one hour, I am off to Madrid (where we are holding the meeting, on the grounds that the agency there is a real-life, honest to God palace, and tends to silence people) to start writing the fucking thing. Frenchman Who Wants To Be [...]
Chart Monkey
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Account Handler, Advertising, Fiona Shaw, Planning on June 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If one more Account Handler hovers at my door with a half-frightened look on their face, and then unleashes a request for “a couple of charts” on me, they will find a framed picture of Fiona Shaw as Medea hurtling towards their cowering forms. Fuck me! Is there ANYTHING worse in this job than someone [...]
