10 let go at DDB Group, Melbourne
April 3 2009, 11:59 am | | 108 Comments
DDB Group Melbourne has made 10 retrenchments, including six in the creative department, made across DDB, Rapp and Tribal to reflect the changing needs of their clients.
Says DDB Melbourne ECD, Grant Rutherford (pictured): “The wins of Coles and APIA has seen the agency grow significantly since January and this has resulted in a restructure of the agency, particularly the creative department. It certainly was not a decision we made lightly because they are extremely talented and all have made an enormous contribution to the success of the company to date.”
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Sorry, that statement couldn’t be more cliche ridden or empty in style, apart from the fact that it’s contradictory and actually doesn’t make sense. Probably best not to go down that path if you have had to make some tough decisions. Hey this stuff happens in agencies, and you can never look like the good guy doing it.
If you are ‘growing’ why are you retrenching? I hate the spin these guys put everytime they let people go. ‘Changing needs’ et all. There’s no changing needs, there is a financial crisis out there and you are protecting your shareholders bottom line. Nothing’s ‘changed’. Bloody multinationals.
You win business and retrench people?
About sums up the management of the Agency.
Who wants to work on Coles? Cheap & Nasty.
Oh look it’s one of those orchestrated things – for sure there’ll be a bunch of new hires already waiting in the wings, contracts signed, bags packed.. Give it a week, maybe after Easter.
So here’s how it works.
You work hard to win new business to help the agency grow. You work late most nights and over weekends at least a couple of times a month. For years.
Because the agency needs the new business to survive and grow, you find yourself never actually producing anything because all you are doing is pitch work.
But that’s okay, because you’re putting in for the greater good; winning new business is beneficial for everyone.
You put aside your personal ambition, producing work that gets noticed, to play your part in the team.
Because when you finally land that big piece of new business, your efforts will be recognised and you’ll be given the chance to produce that outstanding work that you know you can do.
Yeah, right.
This is a fucking disgrace. Those guys have busted their arse to build that agency up over the last few years. Set aside time from their friends and family because they had the poor judgement to believe in something.
And now they get marched out of the building in the middle of a horrible recession to what?
It’s not just DDB, though the fact that they’ve done it while they’re growing is particularly sickening.
Why an industry that it nothing more than a collection of people continues to treat those people like shit on a shoe baffles me.
DDB will spend the next 6-12 months rebuilding the creative department, actually function for another 6-12 months before the creative director leaves and the whole cycle starts again.
The next time you’re asked to stay back late, or cancel your weekend away to work on a pitch, or the next time you get the rah-rah speech from the MD about the direction the agency is heading in, decide what things are most important to you personally and make your decision with a clear mind.
Read between the lines people. They are “upgrading” people not retrenching them.
hey who needs creatives just jot down the brief on a script and email it off to the prod company like the last few years
Well said 1.28.
Good luck Grant. You’ve still got people there who will impede any real progress.
Well put Vance. Unfortunately many people even on this blog don’t read long copy, so allow me to edit it for you:
Fucking disgraceful.
Is this the first instance where the growth of a company has been used as a reason/justification to retrench staff?
Not a very well crafted statement – i must say. Were all of the copywriters who could have crafted it properly made redundant?
Love the nom de plume, Vance.
Unfortunately none of the kiddies who visit this site will get it.
1.28’s post deserves to go viral. It is exactly this attitude among senior management in every department that causes agencies to falter and fail.
That’s the biggest load of crap I’ve heard. Same thing happened to me a few years ago – made redundant and within 3 weeks some new hires to take our place. And people wonder why there’s so many bitter people in this industry…people like me.
1:28PM
I’ve been there myself twice and have experienced the very bitterness you are referring to. Luckily for me, it wasn’t in the current industry climate.
I put in the hard yards. I made the sacrifices and believed in the cause only to get flicked.
The only solution, really, is to start up your own agency or other business. Until then you will always be a cog in someone else’s machine.
That is the reality of being an employee. You are always vulnerable to being blindsided by the new broom.
I worked for a multi-national and got the flick. I also worked for a large independent and got the same treatment.
It’s always the same.
Shame on u DDB!
Agencies are orgies. Everyone is fucking everyone else. The creatives are there to build their books to get better jobs. Management is there to grow the business and make bonuses, get an equity share or an even better position. Suits are there to gain experience and credentials to land some plum client-side job. It’s harsh when creatives get the arse. But we are all adults playing a big game of musical chairs. Sometimes the music stops and we get stuck. But, equally, we talk to headhunters and other CDs while working somewhere else. We get poached and move on with no sense of loyalty.
It cuts both ways – always has and always will.
Companies (not only DDB) who take these kind of short sighted business decisions doesn’t attract clever creatives. Seems too likely to happen again.
Vance got a point.
Nice comment (and nice choice of name 1.28)
Downright Dirty Business……..its an absolute disgrace,those people were good enough to help win the business…..its Coles and Apia for goodness sake,if DDB try and do anything half decent on those accounts they’ll end up losing them anyway.
DDB should be ashamed of themselves,but after the way they’ve treated other loyal members of staff over the years…..Michael Faudet for example….nobody should be surprised. Watch out remaining creatives, the talentless faction will soon turn on you if don’t start to shine and do better than that woeful White Pages campaign.
DDBoom!
From someone who only very recently lost their job themselves – suck it up people, and stop acting surprised and outraged. This is the life we have chosen. If you don’t like it, there are plenty of nice, safe jobs in the public service out there.
Better being an educated, savvy ad creative being made redundant than some poor non-English-speaking factory worker out in the western suburbs whose wife worked at the same company and got laid off on the same day, three weeks after buying their first home. It happens.
Nice work Vance. When’s your next media manipulation blockbuster coming out?
There are plenty of pretty good reasons this management style is redundant.
Telling staff they are safe, then “retrenching” them with sexier replacements waiting in the wings is immoral. It leaves the survivors full of disbelief and distrust and floods the market with a bunch of people fired up and angry enough to do the agency some serious PR harm.
One can only assume no one at DDB has any idea about staff relations. Let alone client relations. They have effectively just told their clients “you know that team we have had working on your business for X years? Well they’re crap so here’s a better one.
I am amazed John Zeigler allowed this to happen. It lacks foresight, it lacks lacks class but most of all it lacks an understanding that this is a business made up by its people.
Beware the backlash DDB. Melbourne doesn’t forgive easily.
Ask Anthony Heraghty.
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What a pathetic statement – doesn’t even make sense. DDB are not liked for a reason – because they treat their staff poorly.
Management are not doing a good job in that place which is evident. How predictable – CD cleans out staff to make himself look like he is doing something positive. Irony of all this is that he will be gone within 12- 18 months once they get their pound of flesh.
In the right environment with the right support, guidance and encouragement, I reckon anyone half decent can come up with award-winning work. I reckon we over blow how hard it is. Getting rid of people because you don’t think they have innate gifts you are looking for is self-serving rubbish!
What? The advertising industry is cutthroat and heartless? You’re kidding? What about all the lovely work we do for charity? Sometimes without the charities even knowing. And the free alcohol? Surely that’s evidence enough that our employers have our best interests at heart? I know two people who have had their therapy paid for by the company. I’m shocked and disappointed.
Redundancies happens unfortunately. But there can still be happy endings. Next time around the creative you sack might be your client. Or your boss. It’s a small world and you simply can’t afford treating anyone with disrespect.
DDBOOM!!
DDBoooooo! Hissss!
When you hear storys like this you just wonder why there is not more retrenchment rage incidents. What are bunch of chuntz.
Nobody says you have to work in advertising. If you don’t like working weekends, you don’t like advertising. Fuck, become a teacher, 5 days a week, 9-3 with 16 week holidays per year. And guess what, the difficult decision to quit has been made for you.
I know it’s shit, but there’s always something better.
They’ve been Munted.
Just a small point. As crap as the situation is, I don’t think a picture of a smiling Grant Rutherford helps. Bad call or not, anyone who knows Rubber knows he’s not the smiling assassin type.
When you “retrench” an employee the employer is unable to reemploy for that position for 24 months. I suggest you all visit an employment lawyer. This act is the worst corporate citizenship in these times.
DDB have been talking to me for the last six weeks about a creative position there. I feel awful about the recent retrenchments and am now going to think twice about taking the position. DDB will deny they have creatives in the wings, but i know it’s true. Lucky I haven’t cut ties with my current employer. i don’t want to jump into an agency that treats their staff like that, then spins the PR release in their favour.
DD BROOM!!
6.51. Neck up you parrot. And teachers don’t have it that easy dude. They ‘re hours you were at school. Probably.
with so many people wanting these jobs, agencies will always play god.
as long as they get paid.
as long as they get paid out very fucking well.
signed,
Been there
Grant I’m sure you did what needed to be done. Keep your head up it’s never easy. Few people in this industry have as high standards as you, that’s why you have done the work you have done and why you are where you are. Trust in that and the agency you build will go far. Good luck.
Someone that’s been there.
Anonymous feel free to shred me to peaces.
To all the pricks who say shit like if you don’t like it, you don’t have to work in advertising. WTF??
it has nothing to do with loving your job. it’s about the right to be treated fairly in your job.
it’s twats like you who got the world all fuck up in the first place with your lame-ass non-questioning subordinate attitudes. Fucking lifeless worms.
1:47, Go start a union or cry some more.
What kind of fuckwit thinks you need to work all night and weekends to crack brilliance? I crack better work when I’ve actually slept or thought about other things for a day or two a week.
Some of the best creative directors I’ve had encouraged us to go down to the beach during the middle of the day or gave us $100 and told us not to come back from the pub until we had a brilliant idea. And that year we won CB agency of the year and killed it in award shows.
I’ve had another CD that would check on us every ten minutes and kept saying ‘we need more ideas we need more ideas show us what you got quick quick quick’ when the internal is still two weeks away. Then at the end of the day he’d go ‘right, I want to see 20 ideas on my desk in the morning.’ We produced shit work all year, got lucky with a scam ad and left as soon as the awards round went through. Not one good idea got up for real.
This work through the night every night and every weekend shit is crap. You wear your team down, they get pissed off and are likely to go on a very long holiday somewhere cheap until all this economic downturn shit blows over. After that the team go to a decent agency that actually wins awards instead of talking about it, take most of your clients / decent suits because the 6 month grace period is up, and basically kick your ass because they hate your guts.
We don’t need to work all night and drink all day. It’s called chill the fuck out fuckwits it will help you think better.
hey rubber, why the long face?
Thanks to all of you for reminding me why I quit the stupid advertising industry.
Nice post, 11:48am.
For an industry that preaches creativity and innovation, the way we run our own affairs are just so backward. Our human resource management practices are from the 1970s, at best. So many agency brands are built on the most humiliatingly transparent and opportunistic of scam ads and campaigns.
What do we really offer? What do we really stand for? Our responses to the global economic crisis are as backwards and short-sighted as the most uncreative of businesses and industries. We are a fraud of an industry.
It’s just such a shame that the romantic rhetoric that sucks you in in the first place is just so far removed from the realities of our industry. It’s full of the same small-minded, scared, political pricks as virtually every other industry. It could be and should be so much more.
DDBastards.
One hears on the street, the decision was made by a higher creative source than Grant. The Smiling Assassin strikes again.
4:48 and 11:48 I’m so glad there’s at least two people in the industry that feel the same way. I remember when I was in Law, before I became a creative, we had an ethos – work smart not hard. If you worked smart you could charge a client triple what you actually worked for (in 6 minute increments). And it was worth every cent to us and the client. I find in advertising people work hard for the sake of working hard and looking good. We could be working smart and doing great work in the minimum amount of time possible, and, in the remainder, having the maximum amount of fun doing proactive or freeing our minds up to positive (creative) possibilities or research.
That aside, I agree utmost with 4:48. I’ve witnessed things in advertising which aren’t just unethical or abusive, but downright illegal (and in a way, stupid and counter productive). Sexual harassment is just the tip of the iceberg, ‘reasonable overtime’ and intellectual property rights on contracts is a whole other universe of unnecessary, uninspiring tension.
Six minute units for charging creative time is a great idea. No more vague, hourly timesheets done in a pressured, inaccurate rush every couple of weeks after the threatening email from upstairs.. I’m surprised Finance hasn’t cottoned onto this already. Could be the industry’s saviour. And it would give account service something to do to fill in their time.
I remember a sign on the walls of my first agency saying you had to be talented, and nice to work there. I quickly learnt that what agencies say they are all about is quite often what is lacking from the agency. Possibly why they feel the need to make a big deal out of it and plaster it all over their agency / credentials.
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I think advertising is a great industry with massive rewards for those at its pinnacle. You can make lots of money, gain a degree of fame, meet and work with really interesting people, sometimes in exotic locations. You can really get pretty close to living Hollywood. We all know those who have achieved that status.
The key ingredient is a ruthless selfishness, unfortunately. You need to put your own interests ahead of your clients’ by pitching attention-seeking rather than brand building work. You need to ignore the interests of suits and management and constantly be seeking the next creative and employment opportunity.
Who knows if your ideas worked. They won an award. They got noticed by your peers. They may have done nothing for the client’s business. You may not even have the client in the first place.
Forget selling product. It’s all about sell yourself first and foremost! Those who tend to get burnt in advertising are those who somewhere heard or read the descriptor ‘team player,’ and believed it. It’s all bullshit. No-one gives a fuck about you. So, put your own interests first and fuck them before they fuck you.
Well said 10:18. I’ve also worked for a couple of agencies that preached “teamwork”, “niceness”, “harmony” etc. All a load of bullshit. One of those agencies had some genuinely nice people, the other lot were the most scheming, manipulative and talentless people I’ve ever had the misfortune of meeting. This included the CD, whose main role seemed to sitting on his fat arse all day surfing the net.
To those who have lost their job – good luck and hang in there. I’ve been there too.
Harsh 10:18. But sadly, pretty accurate.
I worked for a CD in Melbourne who arrived as a recently fired middleweight writer. He was not untalented. But he equally was nothing above average. Yet over the next year or so, he just pushed himself and pushed himself politically. And before you knew it, he was the associate CD, demanding respect from those who hours earlier were his equals. He eventually fired me, too.
He’s gone on to bigger and better things. I see his face in all manner of meaningless forums and publications, desperately spruiking himself. Good luck to him. But he represents what’s wrong with this industry. His rise up the ranks wasn’t based on talent, hard work and real results. It’s all been built on game playing.
Everyone’s different and I play a different game to him based on my own personality. But he did teach me a valuable lesson. It’s generally not all about the work or how good a thinker you are. Those who tend to get ahead are those who self-promote and play a ‘look-at-me’ game. As long as the industry rewards that kind of shallow approach, you need to participate too or risk getting the axe.
I agree with a lot of what’s been said. One of the precepts we often preach to our clients is to zig when the others zag – stand out by being different. It’s funny that in the current global economic crisis we as an industry are running with the pack.
One other point…
If the DDB sackings were nothing more than a new broom CD re-creating the department in his own image, given the economic times, that is a harsh, harsh act. And in my view, it is one that management should probably have vetoed.
What a bullshit (pr?) release. Typical of the DDB management style. Packed full of rubbish. That place is a use up and burn culture that takes it’s new business wins and agency of the year awards smiling. Then out come the daggers after they have worked people to death. Sure the smiling assassin of Sydney would be behind the scenes yanking the local puppet’s strings.
To all those of you who have been screwed and lost your jobs, we feel sorry for you. It is not that change doesn’t happen sometimes, it is just the way it happened at DDB Melbourne which is questionable. Mean, rude and morally bankrupt.
Hopefully the DDB management will be found out one day. (Hell Grant, what is a nice guy like you doing throwing in your lot with that bunch?)
For those of you already lined up perhaps to join this all grins but nasty agency, best of luck. You’ll need it.
Get an employment lawyer… 7.54? How completely unrealistic… Then you will really never work in an agency again.
What sort of agency does this? Surely it’s a matter of time before their clients find out who they are dealing with and the style in which they manage. It’s not like they are doing good work so what’s going on.
“We see faces, but we don’t know hearts” reads the maxim. He might not be the smiling assassin himself, but he spent many, many years working with one of the best in class. Something always sticks.
It’s business people. And if you judge the caliber of people you meet in the business compared to other industry’s, there’s no surprises why it seems a little more cut throat.
Well, I have worked at one agency and the lying, backstabbing, sexual harassment, that is executed by the management in that place was disgusting. Fortunately I had a thick skin. The day to day running of that agency is by a snivelling, talentless bitchy person who cannot be called a man as he is a laughing stock. Most of the staff despise him but pretend otherwise to keep their jobs.
Good luck with failing as you are without soul.
We all understand that in this industry, if you lose business or blllings, you lose people.
We also know that if there are personality clashes, someone has to be shifted around or out.
But if it’s true that replacements are in the wings – then it’s very low stuff indeed.
The industry has gotten very, very dirty in recent years.
Wow, this is depressing. The sad thing is we put our heart and soul into an industry that most professionals consider pretty much a joke.
What if the people being let go were just not right for DDB and the direction its going in? Just saying.
Paul,
Clearly, that is what the agency is saying.
Firstly, it’s a dog act in this economic climate.
Secondly, isn’t the role of an agency and it’s CD to create the environment in which people can excel and get good work up. I believe that most creatives in a supportive and focussed environment can achieve brilliance. Call me overly optimistic!
I’d love to know the shallow basis upon which the retrenched staff were adjudged. Was it that fantastic barometer of brilliance, award shows? Was it what they had gotten up in the past 12 months?
It’s all pretty lame. Refer to my first point.
Why would you work for a company like this? Very low indeed.
1:41pm wrote Get an employment lawyer… 7.54? How completely unrealistic… Then you will really never work in an agency again.
After what’s happened to them, would not working in an ad agency again be such a bad thing? If I were them I’d definitely call a lawyer.
By the looks of the responses here, I don’t think people would be labelling them opportunistic litigators, more like ‘good on them’.
Sydney’s smiling assassin knows every dirty trick in the fuckin book. What goes around comes around.
Paul, just saying, please enlighten us, exactly where is that direction? The agency’s been winning millions of dollars worth of business in the last year, millions of dollars that will provide so called ‘growth’. Someone had to be bringing that business in, name, the existing team. And that’s the way they get rewarded? With a kick in the ass and out you go? It’s sickening. So again, what’s exactly the direction they’re heading? please tell us so we can all understand. Because at the moment it feels like even PacBrands had a better argument than DDB to do what they did. Disgusting. Shame on all of them, shame.
I’d like to say something positive:
There are now some very talented creatives on the market.
Whoever gets them will do well.
DDBubble. [Pop].
Congratulations on your promotion guys.
DDB have put on a lot of business in the last 12 months. So much so that they’ve just had to lease more premises to house the creative department.
With all that extra work on the go, it seems unlikely that they’d get rid of all those people without a bunch more other people waiting in the wings.
These new people will be talented, bright and hard-working. They will also already have a job, and have plenty of options in front of them, of which DDB is just one.
If you have an offer in front of you, or even if you’ve already signed up but are yet to begin, take the time to read through these comments. Better still, talk to the folk that have just left. Get all the information you need to make the right decision.
In simple terms an employer is not allowed to single out an employee for retrenchment as an easy means of avoiding a process of performance review or to avoid an unfair dismissal claim.
Clearly this is what has happened here and has happened elsewhere. This should be easily evidenced by the fact that the roles will shortly be filled by people with the same job titles (they may wait 6 months to announce it but they’ll be there alright).
I think 11:48 hit the nail squarely on the hammer. Work smart not hard. Beavering away into the night on Thai food and pizza is usually a waste of time unless the thinking has already been done and all that’s left is to do is mount the ads.
I’ve worked in places where everyone hung about trying to be funny during the day and then at 6pm suddenly got to work.
Total shit process.
CD’s set the tone, their job is to focus the creatives on the problem and back the hell off in my view. If the best thinking is done at home, on the toilet, or playing with the kids, then that’s where they should be, if thinking is what’s needed.
If they need to be there to pick up the phone to answer every dumbass call from accounts, who seem to need to have a meeting to plan for the next phone call, then I guess they need to be behind a desk.
Advertising has allowed itself to be more and more like the clients they serve. Look at the most successful agencies (creatively) and you’ll see places which feel nothing like a company which makes products to sell.
We sell reasons to buy and every purchase decision is an emotional one. Sticking peeps in cubicles and expecting emotion is a false economy.
Well put Vance.Very sad
And yes how surprising to see the fat cats getting fatter.
The industry hasn’t changed. Uses people constantly – especially creatives. Burns them up – tells them they’ll be stars if they work 24/7 – tempts them with bits of plastic (read:awards) – spits them out. The CD moves higher up the pecking order and couldn’t give a rats. They agree to a press release like this being put out? Shows they have left humanity behind and have finally gone 100% self centred. But then why wouldn’t they? That’s what they’re rewarded for until the monster turns around and eats them too.
Advertising needs to have a good, long hard look at itself. Which of course it won’t do. Why? Because it rewards the rats in the end and the rats don’t well, give a rats…
I have 25 years experience in this Industry, it has never changed.
To the younger group I say get your act together…form a union of standards…blog this, report that…make people know. Don’t have the 25 years I’ve seen. Do something about it.
Leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth DDB. Where’s your backbone? Gonna take a lot of ‘brand development’ work to come out of this.
(and thanks to 1.28 – Vance for wording it so well).
I used an employment lawyer when I was fucked up the ass and I now have a nice little apartment with water views.
Here’s the way it works.
Advertising creatives are not unionised; journalists are unionised.
Journalists get paid by their grade and only a few stars ever earn decent money.
Advertising creatives get paid what they can wring out of the agency, and it’s usually a lot more than journalists (except for the first year or two).
When journalists get fired, they get a little protection, but not much.
When advertising creatives get fired, they get no protection.
Swings and roundabouts, swings and roundabouts.
I know which I prefer, which is why – even after my share of fair and unfair sudden departures – I’m still in this industry.
And I’ve never had to wear a bad suit to work either.
We’re growing
So we’re firing those that helped us grow.
WTF?
Last time I had to fill in one of those endless EOI forms for one of those big pieces of new business (might have even been the recent City of Melbourne one), there was a section up the front which asked whether the agency ‘fostered a co-operative and constructive workplace’ and ‘promotes stability in its workplace’.
Golly I hope those new-business-deciding people don’t ever read this blog…
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Good on you 11:37. Wish I had the guts to do what you did when I was made redundant a few years ago. I’m getting tired off the sleazy assholes in this industry and next time I get shafted I’m going to a lawyer.
The smiling Assassin strikes again. His turn will come but probably not soon enough for some.
Vance Packard – The Hidden Persuaders, great book and still holds true.
I worked through 2 recessions in advertising and they tend to make you pretty bitter when businesses use them as an excuse to regurgitate their people.
Best advice; go start your own business, then pinch their clients. You will be more motivated than they are! Go for it grasshoppers.
You go to a lawyer to get a bigger payout, not to retain your job.
Coz once they’ve fired you, do you really want to go back and slave for the same bastards again?
To those who were retrenched, read Roddo’s message and act on it.
Is this DDB’s idea of PR?
really, who posts news like this?
Wouldn’t you keep quiet?
But who will they bring in? That’s a fun game. I reckon the first team will be……..
Why is everyone surprised? DDB are bastards. We all know this.
Well into the nervous nineties now, just a few posts away from cracking the ton
What is the record for posts on a thread, Lynchy?
DDB not the only ones dropping staff – (belong) dropped a similar amount last week
The 10 ex staff should go straight to lawyers and do not pass go.
I though ‘Belong’ were a two guy consultancy after sacking 30 six months ago?
I am to understand that a new creative team has already started. Great how you can restructure over a weekend.
http://www.bandt.com.au/news/A9/0C05FEA9.asp
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11.16, great article.
The management at DDB should read it. Bastards.
Trouble is, judging by their treatment of their staff and lack of any morality, I doubt very much that they would actually understand the article.
Apparently, a couple of clients have got wind of what has happened and how some of the staff were treated and spoken to.
‘Not happy Jan’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QwM4vXex7c
M&C SAATCHI Melbourne did the same 2 weeks ago.
This whole economic cris is an easy way for agencies to remove staff at the drop of a hat
Hey, guess what fellas:
http://www.i-resign.com/uk/workinglife/viewarticle_47.asp
Takes two to tango. Come on. Plenty of other things we could do.
its not that it was done, it is the way it was done, no class at all. They should have at least kept it quiet until all staff that were being sacked knew, instead of blabbing it to “senior pple who know how to keep things quiet” bullshit! Pretty sickening stuff. Hope the lose some business now to match the staff downgrade.
Very odd when you consider the new business wins, and the need for more creative resource – not less.
Perhaps the lengths DDB Melbourne went to in order to win Coles has required some wages reshuffling – as they decided to hire some very expensive dead wood from Tooronga in order to “demostrate their commitment” to helping Coles out. Tony, Caroline and the like shouldn’t feel any guilt at all …
Well I was an agency permanant who due to a “restructure” was made redundant last year and replaced by two freelancers who, I have learned, are still in there 5 days a week.
How that works out cheaper for the company is still a mystery to me.
Oh well, I have a better job now. Shouldn’t grumble.