The most depressing moments of your working life.

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Andy Knell — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 15:46:59 GMT

As my old fast food client often used to remind me - the origins of pizza can be dated back to the hut-dwelling folk of Napleonia in the early 1800s, pasta on the other hand was originally introduced to China (in the form of noodles) by Arabs in the 2nd Century AD, who as we all know lived in tents.

Our subsequent pitch of the Pasta Tent strategy to Pizza Hut fell on deaf ears, though it was commended at the APG awards.

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ray spektre — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:28:57 GMT

**giggles like a japanese school girl**

thks for sharing

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John Goodman — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:15:03 GMT

Oh, the collective pain. My worst memory is here in Japan. After pitching in 3 rounds of highly intensive work against the same one agency - Dentsu - I was called by the client to tell me that we had lost because Dentsu were bigger and had the extra resource needed to give them full support. Well forgive me, but a (Japanese) child of 5 could tell you that Dentsu's 9000 people are more than our 500.

However the last laugh was mine. 3 months later the clientdecision-maker skedaddled to a competitor and it transpired that he had made up the whole budget in the first place. Gah!

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Reddick — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:29:36 GMT

Licking wounds hath never tasted so good.

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Amod Munga — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:42:38 GMT

Did you just peek into my last six months? Gonna go look for hidden cameras now....after I stop sobbing into my latte.

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andrew durkan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:05:06 GMT

Followed a few months later by being asked to pitch for something else, where the marketing worm is the same one you pitched your "Grand Prix" to 5 years ago, and he has the audacity to ask for an idea as big as the one he seems to have forgotten that he discarded in the past but is now absolutely in love with because the whole world is singing its praises.

Oops, there's a little tear again.

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andrew durkan — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:57:12 GMT

And just to drive the final nail in, long after the work you produced for the pitch has been forgotten and/or lost, somewhere between 3-10 years later, the same idea wins an effing Grand Prix at Cannes and some spotty youths are up to their eyeballs in dosh and slender, top-heavy women, and no one will ever believe you.

Loved the article, Rory But it made me want to cry a little.

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Jim Buchanan — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:34:48 GMT

Very good! Made me chuckle. Where would we be without clients! bless em

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Henrik Engström — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:57:28 GMT

Utterly consoling and brilliant!

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