We don’t talk enough about toxic agency culture. I received yet another email from someone begging me for a job because they are not coping mentally. There are so many fucked up things masked by alcohol, proximity to celebrities/brands and a pseudo sense of accomplishment.

I still hate that I get anxious and want to respond to emails so quickly not because I have time for that email or I can commit to whatever it’s asking for but also to show you are working because you are almost made to feel like you are not working hard enough.

It becomes so stupid because to justify not giving you a raise or bonus they reduce your productivity to weird things like how you missed that one email Friday. Imposter syndrome is so prominent in agencies

A couples of week ago I collapsed at work because of exhaustion and dehydration. I got booked off for 2 weeks and I struggled to not work. @sibumabena had to even beg me to stop working. It’s not because I have great work ethic. It’s PTSD because I kept getting anxiety attacks

I hate agencies. It has created a bunch of underpaid sad creatives riddled with anxiety and depression. We have an unhealthy relationship with “work” accomplishment and what success looks like.

With that said, I have one experience of black agency life, the rest have all been very white and I hope they are our saving grace