Sun 7 May 2006
- Yes, a new AP/AR person was finally hired. She sits within seed-spitting distance of Aaron Cohen. Not only that, she holds an MBA from Northeastern. So that makes four MBA’s Hive-wide.
- Remember the crazy pitch that Toof made in Montreal? The agency that BzzAgent partnered with didn’t get the job in the end, either. The client brought in a group that hadn’t been in the original bidding and that had no expertise in WOM marketing. Clients do things like that.
- I never followed up on my phony identities as Jennifer at Vocalpoint or Vib at Tremor, but I get exciting!!!! emails from both of them regularly. So I guess I’ve become a ghost.
- I have seen the lay-out for the new offices at 500 Harrison. Although the Troglodytes are still tucked into a distant recess, and the telephone talkers (the sales dept. and client services) are clumped together, the idea of the Hive is not quite so tangible anymore.
- Balter met with Andy Sernovitz (the guy who referred to Dave as a word I’m not going to use because certain agents found it distasteful) and they were civil to each other, but Balter says “this story is far from over.”
- The worst finally happened. There are so many new people at the Hive that every desk space is taken. Last Friday, I had to sit at a rickety table in sales with no lamp, no phone, and no Ethernet connection until I begged a cable from Jake. “Make sure you return it,” he said rather curtly. “We’re very short of cables.” I got the sense that he knew there were only 5 days left of 90 Days.
- Romance: still nothing. (?!?)
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May 8th, 2006 at 10:23 am
The evolution of that last bullet point is staggering.
May 8th, 2006 at 5:05 pm
Here’s a way to make the table work better if it’s still really rickety, at least it works in the classroom. Take some school glue and chewing gum and add it to the support structural members so that the creaking or shakiness is lessened.
PS do NOT put shaving creme on the table anywhere near parts that hold it together, especially the lamination. That’s how we in the K classrooms get the crayon, gummy bears, gumdrops and gum from them, so that would be antithetical there, and your rickety table desk might just fall on your lap.
You could check that fruit basket too, and see if there’s anything old enough in there to be glue if there’s none available. Ever tried to get six month old apple out of the inside of a cubby on the bottom shelf in a corner?
Good luck, and don’t froget to return that cable or we’ll all hear about it!