The Musings Of An Opinionated Sod [Help Me Grow!]

Sorry to hear that you lost your battle. Will we get to see the Stealomatic? The very name excites.

remember it was nothing you or the guys did. they loved your work, they loved where you were going to take them, they let you make the first step and its a fucking great step. you were just a pawn in someone elses fucked game. drinks are on their way from all of us over here.
and show the stealo, its fucking astounding or better still, keep it and sell the idea to their main competitor and make them cry about what they couldnt bring themselves to buy.

At least you lot did nothing wrong. No one can say you were fired for mistakes or lack of quality.

The lunacy of this sorry tale is incredible. In fact, it’s criminal. What exactly was “the company you are associated with” thinking when they sent a team into win this client over? Did they really think it wouldn’t matter that they were suing the client? I mean, for fuck’s sake THEY WERE SUING THE CLIENT.

If “the company you are associated with” is the network that I think it is then it would interest me how much the big boss (see what I did there) knew about this. Frankly any organisation that is willing to waste the time, money and love of their people AND willing to support senior management who action schemes such as this is doomed.

I just wish I could be a fly on the wall when the head of Asia Pacific has to explain his/her P&L.

it would frighten the fuck out of you marcus if you knew just how stupid and arrogant people were in this whole sorry episode but i dont want to say too much because rob wasnt joking about the potential legal ramifications if he opened his gob too much. at least for the moment.

niko, youre a mad fuck, i like you.

ive heard your “news” so i know why you would say that. its a fucking outrage and all these companies deserve to die or alternatively have rob make them look the bunch of fuckers they are.

Its just complete madness from start to finish.
As for Marcus getting more bad news, if its what I imagine then thats almost as ridiculous still.

Some companies don’t know a good thing til it’s gone.

yes the above is sad and bad but its worse for the people rob worked alongside than rob himself. thats not devaluing how fucked it is but your news affects you so as far as i am concerned thats worse, especially the way you were treated. we all need a big fucking drink.

that is a fucking good point, george, i cant wait for next month, especially if campbell “broods”.

stop you? well fucking hold you down and pour it down your dirty little throat.

rob – thats such bs. i’m so sorry. yes, sadly 99% of this industry is filled by adults behing like children.
marcus – i don’t know what’s happened but i’m sorry.
let’s hope that karma thing is real.

Interesting.
There is so much legal shit going on here that if you did re-use it for another (appropriate) client any lawsuits would just get tangled as counters to the existing suits.

Besides, you can claim “any exclusivity contracts are voided due to the (insert allegations) of the client”.

The work deserves to be seen.

You’re right Age … that’s what we’re going to do but the bit that bothers me is that a bunch of clever, hard working, innocent sods are going to face an uncertain future because supposidly professional corporate institutions like playing ego-games.

Fallout has already started … it makes me sick.

I will show the stealo, just not yet – it’s a sad state of affairs but I do have to be abit mindful of things at the moment – more for other people’s sake than my own.

I cannot tell you how pathetic this whole thing is, and as I said in a previous post, everyone loses, client – agency – industry and consumer.

But it’s not all doom and gloom … well it is in this particular scenario [bar the one ‘bridge’ ad we got to make] … I’ve heard a rumour we might have some good news soon and that warms the cockles of my heart, ha!