reasons i hate suits
by justine
warning: broad, sweeping, uber generalisations ahead:
- they have low IQs
you know how it is when they come back and say they “don’t get it” but only because they’re looking at it from a REALLY RETARDED CONSUMER STANDPOINT? it’s a fucking lie. these forest gumps who only have enough electrical pulses in their brain to get them through daily life (like blinking and breathing) do not understand mensa terms like “NEW” or “CUSTOMER” or even the word “OR”. fuck you! - they act busy
they’re consumed with the paranoia of being discovered. that one day a higher-up will have a ramly burger at a new stall and have a fucking epiphany that imbues them with the knowledge of what a fucking waste of company resources they are. they do nothing, haphazardly scan BAD reqs, have arguments over semantics they don’t understand, poke their nose into creatives and randomly go ape shit over nothing. leave me alone to do my work. i’m very nice. i don’t pick apart your meaningless briefs; don’t ask me if “this is the best way to word the sentence”. i wrote it that way, simply because I LIKE. fuck off! - they don’t know their own godammned products
i’ve gotten briefs for jobs which are totally off. client’s asking for a fucking chicken and what do they do? brief to do a duck? no. they ask for a fucking rainbow elephant. wrong product descriptor, wrong objectives. wrong deliverables. sometimes, even a wrong fucking product NAME. fuck you! - they do diddly squat
the following conversations are real:“what is the promo about?”
“dunno. client didn’t say.”
“how long is the promotion running for?”
“client didn’t say. just put any date first”
“can we shoot?”
“not sure. just do anything first”
“then what the hell do you expect me to do?”
“errr… errr… everything on this list.”or even
“what information do you need in this leaflet?”
“stuff about growing-up nutrition.”
“can i have writeups or materials from client?”
“you can search on the internet, right?”
“you want me to pretend to be a nutritionist?”
“very easy wan, just look on the internet.”it’s your fucking job to talk to the client. so, do it. talk. ask. open your fucking trap. then only do you come and show me your ugly hound face. if not, fuck off!
I think you might find an affinity in this new TV series called Trust Me. :D
why? is it about suits dying en masse?
My company let the only suit we had go… life has been more peaceful ever since… you guys should try it… :D
am i considered a suit?
hahah
tak. haikal hensem.
i hate suits. and i don’t even have to deal with them direct (most of the time). i hate suits.
i think all producers not-so-secretly do. ;)
nah, it’s about how life in the advertising world will suck you good and dry. eventually.
good idea for a storyline though. suits get wiped out by some crazy ass moron-killing disease, and the creatives can have something else to be cranky over now! :D
besides those. production house ppl also damn idiotic one.
sometimes i wonder why they r like that. they never go out, working 24/7. thats why!
but actually… damn a lot of ppl r idiots. dont knw why they can get jobs! dont do their jobs but still can keep it.
how about materials still coming in on the live date?
and how the list in “everything on this list” is not a correct one anyway!
as the end result is always 3 times the job scope that was briefed initially.
after suffering the ADD and spamming tendencies of ms. nutrition.
the most priceless line i’ve got: “did u send it to the freelancer?” – after it’s live.
now u’ve really got me started… on v day too. justine, fuck u!
orite haikal hensem!!haha
Once, I had to write a brief to myself because The Suit didn’t know how to write one. I also had to write a contact report for him and CC myself on the email. That is the closest I’ve ever been to feeling bi-polar.
Contact reports? I had to do those for an Account Manager because she refused to.