JWT Executive get’s canned — only work he can find is at Starbucks selling coffee
December 23, 2007
It appears that working as an Executive at JWT does provide some help on your resume, if you get canned.. Starbucks is always looking for guys to serve coffee. Michael Gill, a former JWT executive left JWT, the only thing his resume could get him is serving coffee at Starbucks.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Michael went to Yale, and was hired out of college to work at J. Walter Thompson, then the world’s biggest ad agency.
“I was what was called a creative director, and that means my job was to encourage other people to have ideas, like an orchestra leader,” Gill laughed.
He presided over ad campaigns for the Marines, Christian Dior and Ford. For 26 years he climbed the corporate ladder. But he didn’t see the end coming.
“No, I was really shocked by it, which I shouldn’t have been.”
He was 53 when a fellow executive invited him out to breakfast:
“And she said, you know, those classic words: ‘Michael, we have to - we have to let you go.’”
“How did you feel at that moment?” Mason asked.
Thank God Starbucks hired me to serve coffee…
Classic.
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