Look into the PR crystal ball…
Dr Mumbo always learns something new when he reads Sydney’s The Daily Telegraph.
Today he learned from The Tele’s employment page that staff at Pulse Communications get free psychic readings.
Which all goes to show the the PR industry’s flaky reputation is completely undeserved.
But Pulse will no doubt have foreseen that Dr Mumbo was going to say that.
Oh come on!
Not sure which is most ridiculous/insulting to employees between a teepee for naps, psychic readings, or free KFC.
A teepee for naps? How often would that be used?
Teepees(?!) booze(?!) pinball (!)
In other words: Gimmicky stuff we are offering in return for not paying you the endless hours of overtime you will be required to work, because that would cost WAYYY more
One day, advertising agency people will be able to do their work without having to do endless hours of unpaid overtime.
I wonder how anything ever gets finished, if you cant do it in normal hours, how come you can in the remaining?
Have you worked in advertising, um, ever?
Agency bosses never say no to anything, doesn’t matter how understaffed, unequipped the agency is to do it – the answer is yes, always.
Add to that the fact that agency staff are at the mercy of their clients – if a client wants a complete revision at 5:30pm delivered that night – that’s what they get, unfortunately. If a client wants to talk about a job at 7am or Sunday lunchtime – gotta answer the phone.
The worker bees are the ones that lose out, hence the teepees 😉
Deadlines shift, clients are demanding, bosses allocate more work than is humanly possible in a 40 hour week