I have decided to up my war of passive aggressiveness with Box-Ticking Account Guy. The last victory was a blank refusal to fly Alitalia at something like 4.20am (going, instead, for the LUXURY of BA at 7am) – but it was hard-won. It involved repeated pretences of “Plans Not Finalised” and “Not Sure About the Agenda” [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Workshop’
War
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Box-TIcking Account Guy, Moscow, Russia, Vaginas, Workshop, World's Greatest P.A. on June 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“…And Then We Could Eat Our Own Shit.”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eating Shit, Enthusiastic Account Guy, Jakarta, Simon Cowell, Workshop on November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I’ve banged on long enough and often enough on this site about my loathing for the horrifying cliché of lazy thinking that is “the workshop” – but I’m afraid that I just can’t help myself. I’ve just returned from Jakarta (oh – and by the way, it’s a shit-hole. Just to be clear, the hotel [...]
Jakarta
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Enthusiastic Account Guy, Jakarta, Workshop on November 1, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I don’t want to go to Jakarta. It follows then, as night follows day, that Jakarta is exactly where I AM going on Tuesday night. This arse of a trip is designed for one stupid reason only: the holding of that behemoth of contemporary corporate life: the workshop. I won’t witter on about the ghastliness [...]
The Freakshow Workshop
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Singapore, Workshop on June 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Fuck me: we have got some FREAKS working at our agency. I was reminded of this when having dinner with Women Employed to Work in London But Moved To Singapore By Travesty Of All Things Gay. She reminded me of the day that we held an Asia-specific workshop with attendees from all our agencies in [...]
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 [...]
Double Wank With Shit Chips
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Client, Planning, Workshop on May 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There are, in advertising circles, too many people making a living by holding up a tube of toothpaste and forcing people to consider what it might be were it not, in fact, a tube of toothpaste. What kind of animal would it be? What kind of party would it host? Where would it do its [...]
There’s Always One
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Workshop on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Sunday, 30th September 2007 Oh, the dread awfulness of the workshop! Oh the erroneous, provably incorrect idea that a bunch of people in a room with a load of Post-it notes and someone shouting “What if it was an aftershave, a car, a wingnut, an anal douche?” at regular intervals is a better way of [...]
