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One year ago I — along with many others at the firm — was let go without warning. I was part of a robust nationwide in-house creative team who found themselves suddenly with 25% less staff and a new “leadership” team intent on dismantling them in favor of an agency model, and a heavy dose of nepotism.
Today, the entire remainder of the US creative team, along with a bit chunk of marketing, was let go. So many lives ruined. I am crushed at this news; this was my work family with whom I had spent many years building and nurturing into something great. And now it’s all gone.
- Fuck.
So sorry to hear that Mono. It's a shit scenario.Horp - I fuckin' hate corpos almost as much as I hate politicians who set up those rules in the first place.YakuZoku
- My whole team is reaching out. They know I had a year head start and they want insight. I wish I had more to offer. I shed some tears for them today.monospaced
- Looking back I’m almost lucky I got let go in the initial wave. Market is worse now than it was last year.monospaced
- Lol so much drama, you were fired after many years, big deal, people can always find another job********
- Of course you laugh. You’re a heartless cunt. Go away the grownups are talking.monospaced
- Seems to me the kids are talking, the grownups I know just take it and find something else, no drama********
- Sorry I can't be empathic to drama queens********
- Wow.monospaced
- Well this is fucked. I know a few 60-70 y/olds who worked in creative or advertising their whole lives and were suddenly redundant now they struggle to find wo_niko
- ...work, I don’t know many who I’ve worked with over the years that saved/invested and built up a nest egg of any kind so we might all be screwed soon_niko
- Did you work where I worked? I got laid off today too, same story, here - https://www.goingcon…nuggler
- Shit nugg. Yesmonospaced
- What team? I’m so sorry.monospaced
- Man, that sucks when something so familiar gets burned down. Really makes you think about all those times you stressed over things, like what was the point.BonSeff
- We did some great things. It wasn’t for nothing. An end of an era.monospaced
- I did SVG animations for the IFS "creative team" which is gone. I didn't have much to do after the rebrand which removed most illustrations.nuggler
- I was full time remote for 5 years, great job, I'll probably retire now even though I didn't save much $nuggler
- I remember you nuggler, even though we didn’t work closely. I’m good friends with Carol and many people who were on your team.monospaced
- small world, mono! I'm mostly a lurker on QBN but I've seen you here for many years. Carol's in the know more than I ever was.nuggler
- Sucks to hear, mono.
Curious, did you guys realize that you were both qbners?bezoar - I would love love love if we had a QBN meet up and Graf was there.YakuZoku
- --er WHEN did you guys realize...bezoar
- bezoar - I thought I might post here about being let go today, and happened to recognize mono's story first. Otherwise I would never have made the connection!nuggler
- That’s brutal Mono. Sorry to hear it. Is that because the bigger companies have tried to adapt their business models with the times and they were unsuccessfulIanbolton
- See what I mean Graf. You have no empathy whatsoever. That is exactly the reason you have limited friends on here. Mono is explaining the reality of growing up.Ianbolton
- graf said himself he is punched in the face while the rest is not.... thats why he cant care about anyone. because he is a traumatized blokeneverscared
- empathy is nr.1 in a design team...otherwize its not fun and everything lacks good mood and emotion and therefore bad aesthetics.neverscared
- sad to here, that my reason to not work at big corporations. You are just a number to them.milfhunter
- It sounds like the management fucked it up completely and they lost most if not all clients?NBQ00
- No nbq it’s large accounting/ finance firm probably the largest they did creative in house now they’re letting an add agency handle it all_niko
- They are an accounting firm, they are cutting costs, zero empathy for employees, there's only numbers :))********
- The madness was actually working for 15 years in-house at an accounting firm and expecting to retire there :))********
- years back a few of these consulting firms acquired agencies back when ‘design thinking’ was the thing. Was this team an acquisition? Maybe AI is the new thing?monNom
- The team was built to bring creative in house and off an agency model. It went from 6 locals to 100+ national team and won many awards.monospaced
- New leadership last year decided to move back to agency and sunset all creative in phases, just didn’t tell anyone.monospaced
- Sorry nuggcanoe
- Nothing insane about building, evolving and leading a division of an in house agency over the years, and expecting to keep doing so.monospaced
- I even interviewed canoe at one point a decade back :)monospaced
- It took me a while to land this job at age 60! now I'm 66 and I don't feel like looking for a job. I'm just going to draw Snoot Grolo comics all day.nuggler
- Did we interview, I think it was someone else? lol maybe I forgot. Glad you found a job mono and that you're not a drama queen...canoe
- It's very normal to come to QBN and start an industry discussion about your job and other jobs. Fuck graf, he's nothing but a pale-bellied rat.canoe
- Lastly, graf, nobody wants your empathy, or praise or your put-downs. you've happily dug yourself in a hole that you'll never get out of and we could care lesscanoe
- You two get a rooooom********
- The amount of ass kissing from you around here lately is not natural
https://media.tenor.…******** - Nobody asked you to troll this. You just can’t help yourself even if it makes you look even more like a little bitch.monospaced
- And dated, "get a room" is like so 1991.canoe
- I wish you realized gaffe how out-of-touch you look by insinuating people are gay, and in turn, making fun of gay people. Must be a dark world Romanian thing.canoe
- Can't even take a joke?!
You two going full karens is amazing******** - But next time ignore my posts and I'll ignore yours ;)********
- Loser trollmonospaced
- You got fired from pwc after 15 years can't afford to stay in the city and you call people losers?
Look at yourself first******** - Literally nothing you said is true. I made enough to leave the city and buy a house and have a family. I didn’t get fired. Either you can’t read or being a cuntmonospaced
- You could “mind your business” and ignore this, but you insist on trolling me T 3 am. Why? Because that’s who you are. And you revel in your ignorance. Freak.monospaced
- It’s literally 4 am there. Who’s the loser? I’ve never been fired in my life. You’re sad excuse for a human being and don’t even care.monospaced
- If graf was a real industry hero, he'd know people lose their jobs for many reasons, not just performance. He assumes the worst bc he's a trolling cunt.canoe
- @inteliboycanoe
- "was let go without warning" = fired!
Keep telling people you made it******** - So confident and so wrong. Spectacular idiocy. Nobody was fired. The positions aren’t being re-filled. Everyone got severance. Go relish in your ignorancE bitchmonospaced
- I’ve made it, and pretty much guarantee I’ve made it further than you ever will your entire life. Prove me wrong.monospaced
- Exactlycanoe
- So you got fired but keep trying to tell us you didn't? :)))))
You're a creative, grow some fucking balls dude******** - No. Not fired. Not unemployed either.monospaced
- Grow balls? What the fuck are you talking about? I’m a senior AD at a major company, building ANOTHER in house team. I regularly pass on grunts like you.monospaced
- Lamenting the end of something great that I was part of isn’t being a drama queen, either. It’s called being human. Might want to try it one day.monospaced
- You keep explaining yourself and trying to put yourself in a good light when you're such a dumbass :))********
- You okay Graf? All this attention must be exciting for you. Double down on the insults, trying to antagonise more people is so cool of you. Peace man!Ianbolton
- Fuck.