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As you may be aware, Ken Perry’s unexpected departure has coincided with a number of maintenance problems. I appreciate that it’s like a sauna on the 1st floor, and freezing cold on the 4th, but we are sorting things out as quickly as we can. In the meantime, it’s worth remembering there are people in the world with greater hardships than faulty air con and low toner supplies. A little more common sense and a little less hysteria, please.

Rachel Stevenson

Personnel

	Harriet Greenbaum – 1/5/00, 3:13pm
to:	Simon Horne
cc:	David Crutton
re:	Mako

Just a gentle nudge. Don’t forget we’re committed to a Mako review today. You didn’t give me a time and Susi refuses to even pencil anything in your diary. I understand you’re Coking at the moment. (I mean that in the non-narcotic sense of course.) I’m sure you’ll call me as soon as you’re done.

	David Crutton – 1/5/00, 3:25pm
to:	Simon Horne
cc:
re:	earlier

I have gone over and over your work for Coke and still fail to see the difference between your line and Pringles’. I could analyse it at length but, take it from me, it’s utter fucking cack. Besides, even the retards in the mailroom would notice the uncanny resemblance
between today’s offering and the Fun Pops nonsense you inflicted on them when they were in pre-school.

I’ve been summoned to a conference call with Weissmuller, so I won’t be attending the 3:30 review. I hope that in my absence you’ll unearth a diamond for my amazement.

And just to show you I’m not a total bastard, I still like your Mako work. Maybe you aren’t completely useless.

	Susi Judge-Davis – 1/5/00, 3:26pm
to:	Creative Department
cc:
re:	REVIEW TIME

Single file outside Simon’s office. Now, please.

	[email protected] 1/5/00, 3:33pm (5:33pm local)
to:	[email protected]
cc:
re:	earlier

I am just completed reading your e-mail to your Creating Director. How I am empathising with your predicament. You see, once you are laying eyes on geniusness, as you are with our Coca-Cola idea, then everything else must pale into nothingness. And I must be saying that on a normal day you would surely be loving an idea so brilliant that it is reminding you of the amazing Pringle’s advertisements. Still, my friend, if all this falling out is making you glum, then why not sing:

Think happy things – Pertti

	Pinki Fallon – 1/5/00, 4:18pm
to:	Harriet Greenbaum
cc:
re:	free?

Liam and I have a Mako idea to show you which we think is dead right. We should take it to Simon first, but we’ve just reviewed Coke with him and he’s in a destructive mood, so it probably wouldn’t be useful. We know you’re under heavy pressure, so come down and we’ll put you out of your misery . . . 

	David Crutton – 1/5/00, 4:19pm
to:	Simon Horne
cc:
re:	baited breath

By now you will have finished reviewing Coke and must have sorted the wheat from the bollocks. I’d like to see the winning ideas, given that I’ve just spent the best part of thirty minutes on the phone to NY reassuring them that we’re well on course to bagging this one.

	Simon Horne – 1/5/00, 4:24pm
to:	David Crutton
cc:
re:	baited breath

I apologise on behalf of my charges.

They let me down with some shoddy and poorly conceived work. I am about to order another review for the same time tomorrow.

I think that, once the pitch is behind us, a major clear-out of this department is warranted.

I know I have been too soft on them to date.

Finally, though I hesitate to say so at this juncture, maybe in the calm light of tomorrow morning the merits of the Coke campaign I showed you earlier will be more apparent.

Si

	David Crutton – 1/5/00, 4:26pm
to:	Simon Horne
cc:
re:	baited breath

No they bloody won’t.

	Liam O’Keefe – 1/5/00, 4:27pm
to:	Vince Douglas Brett Topowlski
cc:
re:	tosser