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Art Fhags — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:21:22 -0000

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

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What are you talking about? — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:20:33 -0000

What email?

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jimmy2 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:59:32 -0000

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.

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SavingPrivateLyin' — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 21:35:30 -0000

Bravo.

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

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blackbox20 — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:21:55 -0000

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.

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omnicomment — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:34:22 -0000

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?

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what a dickhead — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:05:09 -0000

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

then go find a job.

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Wet Spot On The Boss' Desk — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:39:46 -0000

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

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David Ogilvy — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:55:14 -0000

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.

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SpyWriter — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:34:00 -0000

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...

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abc123 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:31:12 -0000

Didn't they lose Best Buy...?

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paris hilton — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:16:57 -0000

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

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Best Of Luck To You — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:43:56 -0000

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?

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I Imagine He Is — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:40:42 -0000

Andrew Robertson is the BEST BI.

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I Have A Big Package — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:37:15 -0000

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.

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ab — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:30:42 -0000

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.

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:24:39 -0000

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

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:20:13 -0000

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.

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:17:03 -0000

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

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:16:01 -0000

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?

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:14:19 -0000

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

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( 0 )( 0 ) — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:12:26 -0000

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.

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:12:25 -0000

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.

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:09:54 -0000

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"

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Erik Gold — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 13:09:29 -0000

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?