maybe i should title this blog, sightings of an industry meltdown
i just got this e-mail from i guy i very tangentially know:
I’ve got a work emergency.
A potential global client is coming over to our office at 5:00 to “COUNT BODIES.” Needles to say, we need more of them.
If you can come by and look like an Ad Person, which is real easy, the agency will take you all out for a night of major drinking.
And you’d be helping me out Big Time!
The address is M&C Saatchi, 895 Broadway
between 19th & 20th. 5th Floor.
THANKS!
i put the addy cause… what the f–?!?. i suppose first you lay off most of the staff and then you hire extras to act like the staff by promising them the devil’s firewater, which they gladly take cause they’ve been laid off….
New Angeles Monthly, June 2008
Weekend America, March 30, 2008
Los Angeles Times, March 13, 2008
Los Angeles Times, March 6, 2008
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