I was working for a big-deal PR firm a couple years ago when the owner of said PR firm got into a little, uh, trouble. Let’s just say it involved her driving abilities. It was in the news. You can figure it out.
Anyway, even though a huge aspect of PR is keeping up with magazines, newspapers and web sites so that you can keep track of when your clients get mentioned, my boss had forbidden us from doing any of that. She said that one of her “clients” had been getting a lot of negative press lately, but of course we all knew she was the one getting shredded all over the place. Since media in all forms was banned, the only thing we could do all day was check our internal email and spend most of our days chain-smoking at our desks. It was so boring – I couldn’t get out of there fast enough. - Submitted by Janelle, New York City
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