Thursday, September 22, 2005
the one with the WhIP
after suffering a couple of weeks as the client struggled to get its new team on board, the ever long WIP yesterday turned out to be some dragon slaying session for one of our teammates. anyhow, it dragged on till mid day cos the client needed to break for an urgent regional conference call.it was funny how the "urgent" conference call came about.
first the big boss surprised me and other suit when he told the client we're not submitting any plans that go beyond september cos that's when the retainer ends. no renewal no more work, period. clients were obviously shocked and resorted to their usual arm twisting "you must give me ammunition to prove you deserve the renewed retainer" bull. big boss then threw this power line "we've proven ourselves the past three years and i don't think we need to do that anymore thank you very much" and sat back smirking.
WOO HOO!!!
can you imagine any agency telling its client to FO? this is probably the first time in our lives as a suit where we prayed the client would fire us and save us the hassle of dragging our asses through the day as we await THE NEWS from our new management (which is long overdue). at this point in time, we can see the fingers of a certain client flying furiously across her laptop's keypad and we suspected she was on IM with her boss in regards to this unnaturally laid back attitude of her agency. hence the urgent concall.
how amusing. i'm beginning to like this shift of dynamics already.
bee wrote this at 11:18 AM
