Who else knew about the billing problems at Ogilvy?
I do not know Shona Seifert or Thomas Early, but I can impart to you a few truths about the anachronistic way big agencies deal with time sheets and client billing [Adweek, Feb. 28].
I have never worked for a big agency where it wasn’t suggested that I move hours off one client and onto another. I wouldn’t do it.
I have never worked for a big agency where, after recording legitimate hours, I wasn’t told that I worked too many hours on one client vs. others, but that “accounting” would adjust that for me. Oh, really?
I am not making accusations, but making a Watergate analogy, I am asking a few questions: If Seifert and Early were involved in what the government says is a “burglary” of taxpayer funds, who authorized it? Who else knew about it? How much did they know? And when did they know it?
It’s easy to snag a Colson and a Liddy. Talk about a prosecution team Erlichman and Halderman could have loved!
Keith Goldberg
CEO, executive creative director
re:think group
Stamford, Conn.
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