Where are the suited men in rooms smoking cigarettes & conjuring up the next “Got milk?”

And no not digital or programmatic. Traditional, old school Mad Men styled advertising. Where they at

“I come in at 11, drink an exorbitant amount of whiskey, take an injection of speed straight into my ass meat, sexually harass all the women who work for me, and leave to cheat on my wife at 2. All this is to say, smoke Lucky Strikes”

I mean
Sign me up right

listen man jokes aside he makes his employer and their clients a lot of bread if that’s what he needs to do to deliver that then c’est la vie

This is important work

I (38M) work a stressful job in finance. After years of climbing my way up the corperate ladder, I finally became a VP at my firm - which comes with its own office!

I'm consider myself a 'classic' kinda guy, and one of the things I admire most about the workplaces of the 1960s (think Mad Men etc), is that the characters always have a jar of whiskey in their hands no matter what time of day it is. Back when I worked the trading floor, it would have been uncouth to do such a thing in front of my colleagues - but I figured no one would care about it now that I have my own office.

I recently purchased some whiskey jars, and a premium bottle ($500+) which I store openly on my desk. I work with some high-end clients, and I'll always offer them a glass when we have important meetings. Unfortunatley, none of them have ever accepted. So, not wanting to let the whiskey go to waste, I've started sipping on a couple of glasses by myself throughout the day, sometimes as early as 10:30 AM.

That was until yesterday morning, when one of my bosses (CTO) burst into the office unannounced, and caught me sipping. He looked shocked, turned his back, and left. At this point the bottle was about half-empty, so it probably looked pretty bad to him. (Although I must add that this was consumed over the course of a whole week - I was drinking slowly enough that it didn't affect my work in any way.)

He sent me a long e-mail about how I have problem and that he's going to contact HR. In the heat of the moment, I sent him a reply telling him maybe he needs a glass or two to lighten up. (I'll admit to being the a****** for that part.) I'm scheduled to speak to HR tomorrow and I'm s***ting it. Reddit, am I really the a****** for sipping whiskey privately in my office?

EDIT: It seems that I'm TA :( I'm going to ensure the whiskey / drinking is hidden from public view in the future + no drinking before lunchtime. Still sucks that I don't get to be Don Draper though :(

NTA. Emphasis on “privately”. Your CTO should have knocked!!!

It is but it feels like its going the way of more social media teams and very lame optimised marketing driven by data insights rather than executing big ideas.

38M? gawdamn

I am a VP. Show some respect.

Sad!
You work in graphic design right? Typography?

You good let’s just hope they don’t find your ktt posts

I have my KTT account on my resume.

I used S as a reference.

Carousel pitch is top 20 in tv history

Yes

What’s the job title
Traditional Advertising?

Cinema

respect your elders.

They’re wearing sambas and 5 inch shorts to the office now

@PhilipMorris type beat

They were replaced by hyper individualized algorithms

Chad

s*** is just another victim of Big Data

yep i design for a big retailer. any creativity will get sucked out when they get a data insight that says 2% more women aged 25-40 clicked through if we made the whole ad big red circles that say SALE and kill our whole brand position. very reactive