No More Crap

I spent the better part of the day– roughly six hours– dealing with the management side of the ad jungle trying to get Jason set up with a record “of good standing” with Omnicom before he takes a position elsewhere.

Omnicom, being Omnicom, has a set policy of, oh, about a thousand steps necessary to get everything set up and going… for someone to leave. Throw in the added dimension of needing to discuss filling the position with my ECD and the agency’s CFO– the money available and the various permutations that could play out– and you’re in nitty-gritty management hell.

I don’t do well in hell; I find it tiresome. And hot. And not nearly as much fun as the Las Vegas tourism council advertises.

Consequently, I don’t think I’ll write about advertising today because I’m just tired of the crap and will, instead, spend my time making minor tweakage to Adverb (like simplifying many of my scripts and calls and other geekish things I had to learn back when I launched the site– and then had to re-learn when I, uh, re-launched it). I might even try to reactivate an Adverb throwback that, once upon a time, was called the “Adverbug,” a rotating set of banners that call out all the nice folks who visit here. We’ll have to see about that one. I might become too intoxicated.

Any-hoo.

The good news for Jason is we discovered he can 1) remain under our insurance for a short period of time– enough to keep him covered and not need to pay out big bucks for COBRA while his new agency gets their act together and, 2) he’ll get a little extra cash by way of accrued vacation time that he can use at the craps table once he lands safely in Nevada.

And it only took chasing down four different people to get those two answers.

That’s efficiency.

The next big headache on the list: getting him set up with an exit interview and putting the search for his replacement into high gear.

Really, Jason. It would have been easier if you’d simply not shown up for work without telling anyone.

1 commentEmail Article Thursday, August 10th, 2006 at 07:58pm Mack Simpson

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