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- threadpost
I work at an agency, and as many of you who have also worked in this soul stealing business, there are some shady characters.
Let's say our agency gets an RFP for some new initiative Company X wants to do. It may be a micro site, a rebrand campaign, whatever.
So usually what happens, is we'll do a brainstorming session (call it what you will, it's just semantics...) about how we can best solve the problem and deliver the presentation in a creative and interesting package.
I've just learned that a fellow CD has been registering the domain names of the ideas we come up with (not in his/her name directly), before we present it to the client. Then selling the domain back to the client when the client decides they want to pursue that particular campaign.
That's just shady to me. Apparently he/she has been successful in selling these domain names 3 different times, and for what he/she claims was a healthy return.
I was told about the plan directly from the person themselves, on the condition I not mention it to anyone. My stupid moral alarm clock thinks I should be the rat.
So then, innerneb massage bored, what would you do? tell person to knock it off (they're someone I consider a friend) or rat them out and probably watch them lose their job?
- thebottlerocket0
"I was told about the plan directly from the person themselves, on the condition I not mention it to anyone. "
So posting it on a message board is what then?
- unscrupulous?thebottlerocket
- you're missing the point heredoesnotexist
- anonymousthreadpost
- I was carrying on the tradition of not answering someones questionthebottlerocket
- but picking up on some irrelevent point as a stick with which to beat them with
thebottlerocket - cleverdoesnotexist
- doesnotexist0
if you want to lose your job tell someone, otherwise pretend you don't know and watch it blow up in their face.
- The "Jenna Jameson' approach to office politicsthebottlerocket
- HomeCreative0
It's sadly (right or wrong) called 'Business' if it was your agency you'd do it, I know I would.
- SkyPoo0
Fuck this you tell them you are not happy about this immoral behaviour and demand a cut of the profits to keep shtum.
= )
- SkyPoo0
Does anyone remember the good old days when 'creation and provision of a pdf visual to client' was down on the studio rate card at £150.00+vat?
Business knows no morals.
- somatica0
Thats' shady as fuck, it kind of reminds me of flavorful, the guy who takes part in "what should my url be" threads, gives suggestions, then goes and registers the suggestions mid-thread. He's even registered a persons' name or two. That's shady.
This guy... he'll eventually get caught, and if he doesn't well then maybe you could create a ghost email address and shoot the client an email saying the guy who's giving you the ideas is also registering the names.
But then again, you might be the ONLY dude he's told, so when the 'little birdie told me' hammer gets dropped on him he'll look right at you.
Tuff call. This sounds like a job for the A-Team.
- harlequino0
Shady or not, I like his creative thinking.
- bigtrick0
if you consider them a friend as you said, then i'd say it's best to give them some friendly advice, then back off and do nothing.
then again, if they are not really your friend, when the hammer drops on them they might blame you even if you had nothing to do with it. yeah, tough one. good luck.
- boobs0
This sounds like a perfect opportunity for blackmail.
- hallelujah0
bust him
- Ranger0
get a mobile internet device and make sure you register them mid-meeting yourself before he gets a chance.
- OSFA0
are we talking about flavorful again?
- matt310
sounds like a great idea to me
- gramme0
I would tell the guy that you think what he's doing is wrong, but that since he's a grown man and you two are not in kindergarten, you are not planning on ratting him out.
Who knows, maybe someday his conscience will bother him, and at the very least he'll stop this buying and selling of URLs.
- threadpost0
nah I'm not gonna rat him/her out. I just wanted to get the temperature of what you would all do in the same situation.
I've already said that they need to stop doing that immediately and that not only could they lose their job, there may be some legal recourse a company could pursue because of this NDA or that yada yada yada.- basically it just sucks to think a friend is dishonest.threadpost
- epigraph0
so it's insider trading?