You have to laugh at the comments of Michael - I live in a fucking bubble - Roth, CEO of the so-called Interpublic Group as he spoke to attendees at the 35th annual UBS Global Media Conference claiming that the company's profit margin goal for 2008 is being revised downward to between 8.5 percent and 9 percent. Wow... what a fucking surprise. His previous target had been a "double-digit" profit margin by next year. "We're still shooting for that," Roth said, even though the official guidance is lower. And he noted that the revised estimate still represents significant improvement over the past couple of years when margins have been in the mid-single-digit range. Michael, oh, Michael, why don't you just keep your pie hole shut. Between you and all the other assembled clowns running IPG, haven't you learned by now that it's best just to hunker down and hope that if you don't pop your fucking head over the trench's rim, you won't get it blown off? Lesson numero uno in Corporate America... If you don't have anything of value to say... Best just to shut the fuck up. In fact, the next time you get invited to speak at another of these wank-fests, claim an attack of fucking leprosy... Or, just don't show up! And here's the best bit... When asked to comment on the the just-announced decision by Dell to award its $4.5 billion global marketing account to WPP—IPG was the other finalist—Roth was philosophical. "It was great to be in the finals," he said. He added that one of the knocks against IPG is that it can't compete globally against the other holding companies. But being a finalist in Dell, he said, "shows the vitality of our offering and our ability to compete on a worldwide basis." Michael, you dumb fuck... You didn't compete... You lost. i.e. You didn't win. Remember, this is America... Silver and bronze are things you wipe your arse on... It's Gold baby, or it's fuck all!
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Here at IPG... Old way... New way... It's the same shitty way!