Entering the Black Asshole
I’m going to get so many porn search hits off of that headline.
Our agency will be closed on Friday and we’re cutting everyone free at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday to get a jumpstart on the long weekend.
This leads me to the conclusion that ad monkeys could have confirmed one of Einstein’s theories years ago. No need for messy chalkboards filled with indecipherable quantum equations, either.
What do I mean? Closing early on one day and having the next day off not only means you have a 3 1/2 day weekend, it means that time and space actually compresses, forcing the need to complete six days of work in the 3 1/2 days that precede it.
Account Service knows time is short, Creative Management knows time is short (yeah, that would be me) and, worse, the Clients know it as well.
E.O.D. and E.O.W. means Thursday at 2:00. It’s a perverse form of daylight savings time where the sleep you lose is measured in multiple hours spread over a few days as you cram in every tiny job known to man.
Einstein was right: time and space compress as you enter the event horizon.
Hopefully we’ll all squeeze through the Black Asshole into an alternate dimension where deadlines are long, the budgets are large, and the clients, accommodating.
Email Article Wednesday, April 12th, 2006 at 07:57pm Mack Simpson
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