DISQUS

Jim · 1 year ago

Well, that 's 3,311 to go for the Omnicom Network.

Jack Smith · 1 year ago

3,308

You forgot the three from the sextape scandal.

Matt · 1 year ago

nice

What Gives · 1 year ago

Why does it need to be pointed out that some were "fairly senior people"? Does it matter? Seems to me they would have the resources to get through this period.

Jack Smith · 1 year ago

I'd actually like to know what % of those laid off were men and what % were women?

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

it was only minorities and a few women.

Angry · 1 year ago

No, it wasn't only minorities. Alot of talented people who busted their asses for that agency got laid off today. By the way, to add insult to injury, today is the day of BBDO NY's Christmas Party...Cocksuckers...

Phil · 1 year ago

BBDO is full of talent so who HAD to go? Creative and/or accounts

madison ave · 1 year ago

pretty much layoffs from across the board. award winning creatives, account people and admin staff. sucks.

btw, i felt a lump in my testes this morning while showering. should i get that checked?

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

no, apparently last night you finally grew a pair. that is what a testicle is suppose to feel like. what was there before is what we in the medical biz call "phantom ballz"

womanhater · 1 year ago

Yeah they let go majority of the MINORITIES!

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

no, there were too many asians, gays, blacks (or what lubars calls "darkies) and women. so they only fired these people.

agencygirl · 1 year ago

nope, technology & project management got cut today. god forbid they touch account people.

this is the third round of layoffs at atmosphere in the last 60 days. the staff there is fairly decimated.

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

you see agencygirl, what they're trying to do is fire people that have been there the shortest period of time thinking that the new blood has been poisoning the "atmosphere". this is what we in the medical biz call "denial". the success of a shop starts at the top. if a football team is doing bad, you don't fire the rookies and new guys, you fire the coach. just like if your president doesn't support your clandestine missions you shoot him in dallas. did that clear everything up?

agencygirl · 1 year ago

oh, and to add insult to injury: two weeks severance for people who had worked there for 5+ years. a day before the official holiday "shut-down".

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

that's not a severance package, that's how mgmt sleeps at night. its more of a "don't show up the next weeks, also, plllllllllllllease don't show up with a gun over the next two weeks"

I Have A Big Package · 1 year ago

Be thankful you work in Amerikkka. In Iraq your severance package is your head severed from you body and placed in a basket.

Not really, but there must be some reason we're lucky to work in Amerikkka.

Monica · 1 year ago

I don't know about Atmosphere, but cuts at BBDO went across the board -- every department got hit. And the severance packages were in line with the length of time people had been there.

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

they fired everybody at atmosphere except for the people that produce mediocre work that only ends up on industry sites when their communication czar rubs and tugs a "journalist"

editors note - the "journalist" is gay and he thinks about the delivery guy when this happens because he has a thing for latinos

blackbox20 · 1 year ago

Okay, the economy sucks, but when does any of this get blamed on our Egomaniac in Chief, David Lubars? Christ - here's another example of the top never taking a hit for running the ship onto the rocks. This guy is a disaster – clients hate him, the staff hates him and loathedTed Sann and the rest of the old BBDO mafia, but must you allow Lubars to totally burn down the place?

CarterMike · 1 year ago

...but Lubars is "game-changing". He said so.

soulbrothel · 1 year ago

That bitch ass motherfucker stole three ideas of mine and I wasn't even working for bbdo!!! Fuck that ho!

Monica · 1 year ago

How did he do that if you weren't working here to show him the ideas?

ab · 1 year ago

pardon me Monica, but do you work for the HR department of something? Your replies have a distinct "corporate responsibility" slant. Not that it's a problem if you do, but it's worthless to try to clear the air on these blogs, just let it go.

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

if you AND lubars had the same idea. i'm going to rule that the idea sucked ballz. the idea was probably somewhere between AIDS and the Wall street bailout package. On the plus side, you didn't make any money from it...i mean, your mom thinks your special.

TeenieTinyTatTats · 1 year ago

What, they couldn't keep the NY office intact and just fire a few more from the Detroit office?
Chrysler will be done by the first quarter of '09. BBDO doesn't need a Detroit office.
They do horrible work and over the last four years, (that's when the CEO, Garcia took over, right) the employees have become numb to the firings. They can take it.

Still Unemployed · 1 year ago

F**k the "employees". Of course THEY can take it. It's those of us who don't have jobs anymore that can't take it.

Give A Shit...to the CEO · 1 year ago

The "employees" are the ones that are F**ked. They will soon be the ones who don't have jobs anymore.

Plus, you can't really use BBDO Detroit to fire the 189 employees.
There aren't that many people there.
It was once an office of over 3,000 with over a billion dollars in automotive billings. That is the reality of the once profitable auto ad business.

Old English · 1 year ago

how can they take it in Detroit?
Detroit is the most devastated market in the entire U.S. right now.
forget about even finding another job in Advertising if you're layed off in Detroit...you can't even find a job doing drywall right now.

try to show some sensitivity. Detroit is hurting more than anyone.

What Gives · 1 year ago

Uh, didn't BBDO NY lose Pepsi??? Seems NY did the horrible work.

Mellors · 1 year ago

What about Chicago office?

required_name · 1 year ago

there barely is anyone left at energy bbdo. the office must have gone from nearly 180 down to 50 or 60. they even fired three ECD's after the CCO left, making this a fairly top-to-bottom thing. not that they had a choice after the wrigley bloodbath.

surprised about all the hate towards lubars. dude has helped me sell some good work.

blackbox20 · 1 year ago

He 'helped' you sell good work? What agency? Can't be BBDO.

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

great work sells itself. take cocaine for instance, do you know how money the meixcan and columbian cartels spend on media each year?

Left NY long ago · 1 year ago

They should let Andrew Robertson's suspenders go.

Sun tanned douche.

And everyone knows that Lubars is an egomaniac that most clients don't care for.
He likes to take loads credit for a lot of shit that would have sold anyway because it was good work.
I understand he's the ECD, but him being such a fuck makes him undeserving.
What is that hipster now, 50 years old?

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

Andrew Robertson would like to respond to your comment but he can't hear you over the sound of his private jet. How else are you suppose to tan on the cheap?

Wet Spot On The Boss' Desk · 1 year ago

Sun tan?
All this time, I thought he was covered in a thin layer of bullshit.

womanhater · 1 year ago

Lets just say minorities were let go!! The so called "diversity" they present to their client is full of shi*. Majority of the head of departments are MEN top to bottom. Men who uses their balls as their brain. If you don't have a dingo hanging between your legs your not "in". They need to be audited.

( 0 )( 0 ) · 1 year ago

It's time for women to stay home and leave the few jobs there are in the US to men to have, so they can support their families. Enough of this feminist shit already.

jimmy2 · 1 year ago

No diversity at all at Atmosphere and there are no women or minorities in senior positions. Don't apply to work there unless you have are a white man with a penis.

Art Fhags · 12 months ago

Who cares? Why is diversity important? Seriously. It isn't. Who gives a fuck?

radicala · 1 year ago

and in Atlanta while creatives who were relatively good were cut while stalwarts remain such as miss dennis who has been asked off every account she has touched. once again the leadership in this office remains while after years they still can't figure out why morale remains low

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

yes, relatively good, compared to the creative work coming out of my anal cavity after a eating beets and corn for a week straight.

paris hilton · 1 year ago

Erik Gold....OOOOOOH, you mean 'Christmas Trees with Lights'???
'tis the season!

unemployed · 1 year ago

...and they lost BEST BUY yesterday

I Imagine He Is · 1 year ago

Andrew Robertson is the BEST BI.

Thunderblast · 1 year ago

All of Omnicom's executives will rot in hell.
Each one will stand in line waiting for his/her turn to suck Satan's dick.
This will be for eternity.

Erik Gold · 1 year ago

now now, no need to over react. they will be there, but it's a long line of coal mine owners, diamond mine owners, copper mine owners, gun manufacturers, missile manufactures, land mine manufactures etc etc.
now wipe the tears out of your vagina and remember that you work on a keyboard and now a mile down in a mine.

syrie · 1 year ago

No surprise there. In the years since Lubars and Robertson have run the place, it's gone straight down hill. Neither of them have any sense of history nor how to keep an agency on top. Of the people I know who were fired, it is sadly laughable that there are those still there who should have been fired ten years ago.

Best Of Luck To You · 1 year ago

To all of you who got laid off:

You're fucked. You really are.

You will not find work in the ad biz in 2009 and probably not in 2010. Because there will be no jobs to be had.

What are you going to do?

what a dickhead · 1 year ago

hmm, i don't know... spend some time hoping you get cockpunched in a dark alley?

then go find a job.

abc123 · 1 year ago

Didn't they lose Best Buy...?

SpyWriter · 1 year ago

What I find particularly cruel is that there was an email sent out a couple of weeks ago assuring BBDO NY employees that no cuts would be made until after the holiday and then they "trimmed" a ton of staff two days before the holiday break. Way to set people up for holiday depression...

What are you talking about? · 1 year ago

What email?

David Ogilvy · 1 year ago

Well, at least that Floor-of-the-cubicle sex film is up for a Gold Lion at Cannes. Lubars slapped a Bud Light "Dude Madness" tag on it, and it's tearing up the critical circuit.

omnicomment · 1 year ago

makes you wonder wtf is going on at omnicom, which for so many years was the gold standard for holding companies -- they really seem to have lost their shit. john wren needs to bring the hammer down on some people. lubars clearly a washout failure for bbdo and phd is barely even an agency anymore. as horrible as all this is, expect even worse layoffs from wpp as soon as everybody's back to work in 2009.

but bbdo canning all those people right before the holidays and given them two weeks severence that they would have gotten anyway for the holiday break is low as it goes. who gets the blame for such shameful behavior?

blackbox20 · 1 year ago

You don't get it. This is the way John Wren engineered it to be. He was furious for so many years at the old BBDO guard - Phil Dusenbury, Ted San, Bill Katz - that he set out to essentially break them and take control of the place. By bringing in Robertson, firing Ted Sann and bringing in Lubars, he has accomplished that. He and the other global networks then conspired to flatten salaries and diminish the role (and compensation) of star creatives. He has adopted the Sorrell doctrine of brutal staff cuts when business is soft with the assumption that there will always be a body to hire when the economy ticks up. Additionally, you underrate the importance of advertising to Wren. Omnicom only derives about 16% of their gross revenue from what is thought of as Traditional Advertising - creative and media.

The new world order folks, is that if you work for a holding company you are meat - bought and sold by the pound and as disposable as Kleenex. If you really want to change the world, start your own agency and reengineer the industry. You may not be able to compete with the media giants, but creativity always has been the rock in David's sling. Stop acting like sheep and do something amazing. Use that creative mind you keep telling yourselves you have.

Besides, how hard can it be to out creative guys like David Lubars? They’ve got their eyes eternally locked in the mirror and see only their own refection. With egos like that, they’ll never see you coming.

SavingPrivateLyin' · 1 year ago

Bravo.

One of the most spot-on assessments on this site.