As we hoped, more information on the AKQA situation we reported yesterday has come to light.
We told you about a creative director at the agency who walked out when some of his team was let go. Well, the mystery addie is Jerome Austria.
He’ll be setting his laptop up at Wieden + Kennedy NY as a CD. We just hope that with all that solidarity flowing, Austria didn’t forget his Lion when he walked out of AKQA.
The move apparently had something to do with ECD Lars Bastholm, “who reportedly is horrible at managing people and does nothing but send cool web links and take credit for work he had no part of.”
More after the jump…a lot more.
Hey Lars, send us some cool links! AgencySpy@gmail.com.
Not surprisingly, all the bad juju has morale down at the New York shop. The phrase “all time low” was used, in fact, by one of our tipsters.
“To make things worse, the MD sent a stern email the following morning about reporting to work on time which was seen (as) insensitive given what happened the day prior.”
We hear that the creatives that have stuck around…may not for much longer. Meantime, we’ll prepare a No Wukkas, that’ll read something like this.
“Big New York Shop seeks entire creative staff. Smart, creative, punctual people wanted. We’re looking for creativity. Uncreative people need not apply. Oh God, what the fuck are we going to do?”