WPP Shame
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When I was at Hill & Knowlton we were visited by Martin Sorell who is the big cheese in WPP and it was like a royal visit. We had a big all staff gathering where he was going to talk to us about how we were all valued employees (I was made redundant a month later) and do a Q&A - it was all horribly staged like the kind of election event 'New Labour' ran when bringing Tony Blair to power. All the questions were planted in the audience before hand and none of them asked anything mildly interesting.
All bar one question that is. There was a girl there who was about to leave the company and she piped up and asked if the company and WPP as a whole would be changing it's policy of working with dictatorships (she mentioned Zimbabwe) and ethically suspect companies (she mentioned Nestle).
It was brilliant, there were several face turning red from the Hill & Knowlton board members and Sorrell himself went into some kind of Borris Johnston style bumbling speech about changing the world from the inside of these companies and regimes. Claiming that with their work they were bringing about change for the good in places like Zimbabwe. Unbelievable bullshit and the whole thing was immediately wrapped up and we were sent back to our desks