“Oy” has a very well reasoned and thought out comment on my Julie post of yesterday. He asks for compassion, particularly for the sake of the kids. Obviously, I wish no harm on them, and I doubt if they are avid AdScam readers, I also wish nothing but the best for her husband, even though if he reads one more time that she says she is the sole breadwinner, he should punch her in the mouth… And that’s exactly my main problem with her… Her mouth. As other commenter's have said. She should knuckle down somewhere for a couple of years and quietly try and re-build her tattered reputation. The problem with the media is that they have given her a pass by concentrating on her affair with Sean and the single incident of the NoBu dinner. If that’s all it was, fuck it, let her get on with building “Backslash Meta L.L.C.” into a “Change Agent” global power house. But there’s a hell of a lot more than that. First, having an affair with a co-worker while in Wal-Mart’s employ and living in Bentonville, is bordering on insane. I’ve actually spoken at the Bentonville Ad Club. The fucking town belongs to Wal-Mart, every stick and stone. You do not meet your lover for coffee at the local Starbucks, while still in your pajamas. As to the NoBu, lap dancing episode, the rides in Howard’s fucking 007 car, and the cases of “Effen-Fucking-Effen.” No big deal, it’s called kick-backs, just like every client gets golf, Nicks tickets etc… Oh, wait a minute, she wasn’t yet a client. Anyway, the shit all the media glossed over was that Wal-Mart had proof that while the agency review was on, Julie and Sean were feeding Draft/FCB with Wal-Mart confidential information and memos, that would give them a leg up in the pitch. Even worse, they were negotiating with Draft/FCB to start their own marketing company under the Draft/FCB umbrella, and to be funded by them… Sorry “oy” but that is a criminal activity, and if Wal-Mart had pursued their case, she would have been in deep, deep shit. My whole point about it is that people who behave like this drag the whole of the advertising business through the mud. Advertising as a business has always enjoyed a reputation akin to used car sales operations. As Jacques Seguela put it so well in the title of his 1979 book… “Please don’t tell my mother I work in advertising. Tell her I play the piano in a brothel.” Any company, considering hiring someone with a track record like Julie’s, deserves everything that happens to them. Sorry “oy” this is something I feel very strongly about. I’ve been in this business a long, long time, and I’ve worked with hundreds of incompetents, and dozens of scumbags. I decided a long time ago, I wasn’t going to put up with it any more. That’s why I went freelance. You don’t have to kiss ass to survive (Well, with today’s fucked up ad biz, that’s not strictly true anymore) But, you get my drift. Julie had one of the biggest jobs in marketing, she made shitloads of money and enjoyed great prestige… She fucked it up, big time. Does she deserve a second chance? Sure, but not the way she’s going about it. That’s my opinion, and I’m sticking with it.
That ain't no merde!!!
