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- rabattski0
:) yeah, you could actually use the "i-was-just-thinking-about-that" against them. quite tricky though. you really have to be sure that they will say that no matter what you say. if that's the case you can drop any shit you like and let them make a fool of themselves. but it can easily backfire on you and the average cd/ad is not afraid of backstabbing.
- silencer0
lol Rasko, you should have seen the ideas they actually submitted. Utter shite. I think they're bitter because even the secretarys effort was blatantly better than their cliched 'ads' which they probably nicked out of last years d&Ad book anyway.
- silencer0
haha, and I'm working on a website for 'Dubai Ethics society'. Maybe I'll cc them on the review I send to the client this evening haha
- rasko40
yeah I hear they're big on ethics in the middle east.
- silencer0
I know, its only a 2 page website lol seriously
- Ohood0
I misread just, I thought they were copying out of the 'AD&D' book, hehe...
- vespa0
what an awful working culture. ideas are ideas no matter who comes up with them, you're all working for the same company aren't you?
how on earth do you bounce ideas off each other and build on them together if everyone is so paranoid and bitchy?
- rasko40
credit where credits due.
- vespa0
definitely rasko but you still have to be able to bounce stuff around. sounds like at his work no-one will admit anything is good unless they did it, how repressive that must be!
- silencer0
I can think of something I'd like to 'bounce off them' Vespa.
- rabattski0
reality check. people fuck over people for anything to gain power or money or both. life is a onemanguerilla.
- silencer0
Yeah, its sortof like that, I fuckin hate this office. I'm getting out of Dubai by the end of the year, and that was the catalyst.
- rasko40
oh yeah of course, I always hated those kids at school who hid their exam papers with their arms.. like as if I would copy YOUR fucking work tool..
you just end up with kind of 'in-bred' ideas with no other input, the results are predictable.
- vespa0
so true rasko!
- k0na_an0k0
I'm not going to read through these, I'm just going to give my advice.
Call those bastards out. If you don't know they'll try and pull the same shite later on down the road. Go above their head and talk one on one with whomever you need to. State your case and be sure to mention you've never even been out to lunch with them. Then confront the persons who accused you.
Remember though to be cool the whole time. You don't want to stir up a bees nest but this will let them know you're not to be fucked with.
- Blofeldt0
You know the ads I like. Ones for Razor's especially Gilette! They are so COOL and original. I mean, how do they come up with so many great ideas? Everytime a new one, totally ground breaking. MACH 3, like a fighter jet, and the one about shaving in space, and the ladies love it. WICKED.
Go and tell your Creatives they should do ads like that. Or ones for Cars they're good too.
- ********0
advertising is the most vacant, creative vacuum that ever existed. I saw like a split second of this commercial last night that I had to flee from....a miniaturized female pop singer performing on a cell phone....
- BonSeff0
sorry to hear about that silencer. if the guy continues to lie about it, a face to face confrontation might be in order.
dont let a jackass sprinkle salt on yo game
- silencer0
its cool bonsef, thanks man. I called the fucker out. ccing my MD and his CD. They have 'retracted' their statement, but still insist they had the same 'idea' months ago. The funny thing is, the 'idea' wasn't very good in the first place....idiots.
- ********0
i agree with kona. be honest and say it like it is...fight for your work.