Agency Tart

You Don’t Call, You Don’t Write

Agency Tart — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 22:08:37 +0000

So I forgot to post about slicing babies in half. And now I’ve forgotten what the exact topic was because I’ve been in an alcoholic haze for 3 days. But I am sofa king happy – our agency just took 8 figures of business away from my nemesis and they don’t know yet. They find [...]

Slicing Babies In Half

Agency Tart — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:07:29 +0000

I’m at the local drinking my usual and celebrating that my client used the phrase “slicing babies in half” to describe their internal dev processes. I’m still deciding what that means, but I’ll post an update (and photos) in the morning after this last, and 5th, Jameson.

Another MD Good Time

Agency Tart — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:10:23 +0000

Me thinks our MD is not going to last long. The CEO of our parent company flew in Friday evening from his summer home in Provence (really). When I asked him at lunch today how his trip into the city was, this exchange occured: CEO: The cab driver didn’t know where he was going and couldn’t [...]

Our MD Is A Fucking Idiot

Agency Tart — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 21:56:34 +0000

I was having a calm day. A couple of snags with a big project that might impact the delivery date but nothing that could sway me from my fabulous, caffeine-fueled mood. Until our MD sends this email to my entire team and copies the client ON ACCIDENT! > From: MD > To: All > Date: Thu, 24 Jul [...]

This Is For You SWF

Agency Tart — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:15:58 +0000

Single White Female hasn’t been bothering me as much anymore since I promoted her to “senior” account executive (we don’t have any other AEs in the office, but she doesn’t seem to notice..). But this morning she came in my office, situated herself on my couch and began to tell me about her weekend at [...]

Don’t Make Me Wait For Coffee

Agency Tart — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:27:48 +0000

It’s possible our agency has the smallest break room in the entire universe. I stood there for 10 minutes waiting to get to the coffee machine and each second that passed, I was plotting the death of the pleated pants-wearing sales guy in front of me. I’m headed to present wireframes to one of my [...]

Oh Hell No

Agency Tart — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 04:13:04 +0000

In Boston today for a huge online branding presentation to my biggest client. My nemesis agency was there as the client’s overall brand presence. What corporate ass-kissing fuckheads. Anyway, our travel booker-person made me share a room with a project manager on the team. Agency Tart does not share rooms. We all got appropriately liquored [...]

Email Marketing At Its Finest

Agency Tart — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:19:12 +0000

I got forwarded a chain email from our director of finance this morning. I would dare say that 95% of people in our shop are agnostic/atheist/just don’t give a fuck, and I am obviously in the “don’t care” category. Not going to print the whole email, but here are some choice excerpts: “Sit back and watch [...]

Must Possess Good Fashion Sense

Agency Tart — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:53:20 +0000

There’s this chick here at the shop who fascinates and horrifies me at the same time. She’s client facing and manages one of our largest entertainment clients. Yet she looks like she just rolled up in a minivan with her 4 juice box toting, Cheerio-laden kids. There should be a rule that if you work [...]

Avenue A and Breakfast Tacos

Agency Tart — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:41:27 +0000

Was totally anticipating Avenue A/Razorfish’s new corporate site to be amazing – almost reminded me of Goldman Sach’s site in a way when it starts off. Then it just turns into every other agency site out there. It’s almost identical to ours in content – but then again, what else can you put on there [...]