Guess the Dinosaur.
April 2, 2008
What dinosaur CEO/creative principal brings out groups of his creatives on bonding weekends — skiing, fishing, and the like — on his jet… but only brings male creatives? Juniors, mid-level, CDs… doesn’t matter as long as they’re men.
Female creatives at the agency have complained that this gives the male creatives a somewhat unfair advantage - enabling to form a better relationship with the boss.
However, the trips continue as they always have, and even the agency’s HR department has turned a deaf ear to matter.
- Agent C
agencyspy.agentc at gmail dot com
April 2, 2008 at 3:15 pm
10 points to “anonymous.” Congrats.
April 2, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Stan Richards. Sometimes he gives you assignments on the plane. And you have to follow his every move. There’s no deviating from the schedule.
And you have to enjoy it.
April 2, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Jack Supple? Same hair but didn’t know he wore glasses.
April 2, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Again, I don’t understand the coyness. Just say who the fuck it is.
April 2, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Wake up, we’re all dinosaurs. Just fax the brief to a creative bullpen in India and be done with it.
April 2, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I’m a dinosaur/Chairman/principle. It’s not me. I don’t have a jet, and even if I did I wouldn’t think any of my creatives (male or female)would have anything to do with me on the weekends.
April 2, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Has to be Stan Richards.
April 2, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Who is Stan Richards?
I wasn’t the first with right response, but it was in the form of a question.
What the fuck do I win?
April 2, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Yell yeah it is Stan.
April 2, 2008 at 9:41 pm
I heard from someone who used to work there Stan was fond of taking naps during meetings. How on earth has one of his cigars not lit yoda on fire?
April 2, 2008 at 9:48 pm
The Richards Group weekend jet getaways for the guys have been going on and known about by anyone familiar with the agency since the early 90s at least. Not saying it’s cool, just that it’s old-beyond-old news and certainly nothing that qualifies for the “blind item,” big scandal treatment. The bigger question for me is, if it bothers you and whoever told you about it so much, why not just address it openly and try to affect some real change that way? Keeping it all rumourlicious and gossipy just reinforces it’s “secret status,” IMHO. Just saying…
April 2, 2008 at 9:53 pm
sounds like a lot of bosses/professors i’ve had just without the plane
April 2, 2008 at 10:29 pm
What exactly would HR do? Tell the owner of the agency he has to take at least one female employee per trip? This would help them how, other than giving them a brief sense of satisfaction that they forced his hand?
Friends, if the guy is only interested in bonding with male employees, then no new “rules” about who the boss hangs out with on the weekends are going to change that. Not to belittle the fact that this bugs the crap out of you, but if this is the worst thing about your job, believe me, you’re in a much happier than a lot of us. Male, female or tranny.
April 2, 2008 at 10:31 pm
What exactly would HR do? Tell the owner of the agency he has to take at least one female employee per trip? This would help them how, other than giving them a brief sense of satisfaction that they forced his hand?
Friends, if the guy is only interested in bonding with male employees, then no new “rules” about who the boss hangs out with on the weekends are going to change that. Not to belittle the fact that this bugs the crap out of you, but if this is the worst thing about your agency, believe me, you’re in a much happier place than a lot of us. Male, female or tranny.
April 3, 2008 at 5:12 am
Working for a senile 70-something year old has-been five days a week is painful enough. Spending the weekend with him is excruciating. I used to work at The Richards Group and have been on the ski trip. Trust me, being female there has its advantages.
April 3, 2008 at 6:13 am
Sounds to me like Stan is gay. Any sexual harassment of the guys who go on these little jaunts with him??
April 3, 2008 at 12:35 pm
that’s so not sexist, it’s elitist. sexist would be if stan were to take only chicks with him.
eh, then again … what do I care.
April 3, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Does everyone always have to be included in everything now? It takes the fun out of it. So everyone SHUT UP!
April 3, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Not that i would ever work there anyway, but they would have to drag me and my male gender with a team of wild horses to go on something like that.
April 18, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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June 3, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Hmmm - mysoginist CD? Could be any agency in NYC.
June 3, 2008 at 3:41 pm
.. but with a jet, so, er, not digital or DM!