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To all the people who've texted to ask: can I really have pitched, shot and directed my own advert in the two weeks I've worked for Millward Brown? The answer is of course no. Millward Brown don't actually make adverts, they do market research that's used by advertising agencies when they're making adverts or planning campaigns ( Read more... )

Here are some magic words: Ah, the system has been configured incorrectly.

Granted, I don’t know what that actually means, but I know what it means. It means, hey, there was a mistake and it wasn’t your fault. My real fear was that I would eventually get an IT super-bod, whose time is chargeable at £1000 an hour, to come all the way down here and ( Read more... )

I’m beginning to think I may have mildly perturbed a gypsy. I appear to be at the mercy of some minor, rather modern curse ( Read more... )

Perhaps it is simply that I’ve spent my entire life as a wayward teenager, and perhaps it’s the legacy of so many jobs where I was supposed to be doing something...but wasn’t, or perhaps it’s simply that this is a real company and everyone is busy. Whatever it is, I am just uneasy with having nothing to do ( Read more... )