And so to Texas for the SXSW conference, hobnobbing with the great and good of the interactive advertising community. Yeh right.
While the editorial team at Campaign decamped to the States, even former reporter Matt Williams turned into a green-eyed monster, tweeting that he was dead jealous.
Now according to my esteemed editor, “trips to overseas conferences are a waste of time as everyone treats them as a massive jolly and your expense account will not stretch to
that”.
I suppose he should know, having had all-expenses-paid trips to San Francisco and Chicago back in the day, for the US DMA conference. Mind you, the trip to Chicago was only a week after 9/11 so it wasn’t all fun and frivolity, he claims.
Apparently rolling off the deserted plane slightly worse for wear didn’t go down too well at Immigration and he was rather fearful when the customs official ushered him into a side-room full of people slipping on rubber gloves.
Some people might enjoy that sort of thing; in fact the prospect of a burly man giving me a strip search sounds quite appealing to me. Still, some guys get all the luck…
Anyway he maintains that I’m lucky to have a male boss, citing a recent report that women bosses are much more demanding and harder to work for – especially if you are a woman yourself. The findings show that women do little to support their fellow sex and can even be harsher on female members of staff. A quarter of female managers even admit they are reluctant to hire a woman who has children or is of a child-bearing age.
And nearly three quarters said they had judged other female colleagues on inappropriate dress. I ask you, what’s a girl to do – some outfits just don’t feel right with knickers on. And whatever happened to feminine wiles? Personally I love having a male boss, I find them much more appreciative of a Busty Bonus.
One sister who appears to have found out the hard way that working for women is not all joy and light was the PA for Eulogy’s head honcho Adrian “smoothest talker in PR” Brady.
She quit recently to work for West Ham boss Karren Brady – same name, no relation – and a nice pay rise. Two weeks on, and she was allegedly banging down the door of Adrian’s office desperate to return. Of course, being an old softie Mr Brady was quick to oblige – although knowing him as I do, I’d wager a trip to the US that the poor girl didn’t get to keep her pay increase…
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