Story Time: Worse Than Working For Peter Arnell?
June 26, 2007
Everyone has an insane story about working in the biz. We’ve decided to query some of our favorite ad execs to get their best nightmare/fabulous experiences set in HTML for all time. Names have been changed to protect the tattlers. It’s like, doctor/patient privilege. We’ve also done our very, very best to confirm the truth. And now, we present…
Worse Than Working For Peter Arnell?
“Many years ago I used to do the creative for Smirnoff Vodka. The Marketing Director at the client end was an absolute pig in every respect. He even looked like a pig. On his desk he had a WW II Nazi SS dagger he used as a letter opener. If you showed him a piece of creative he didn’t like, he would express his displeasure by stabbing it and hacking it to pieces with the blade. Then he’d throw it on the floor, hop it and stamp up and down on top of it. We’d all just sit there horrified. I’m not making this s*** up!”
We wonder if working for ad-god Peter Arnell is kind of like that? We’ve heard some bad tidbits about Arnell’s management style, but we’re short on facts. Anyone?
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