Paul Martin said he was unforgivably naive to compile a list that might have appeared in Mad Men ALAMYIt doesn’t take a Don Draper to work out that listing the names of the women in your advertising agency in descending order of attractiveness and sending it around the office in an email is not a winning strategy. Yet an executive at one of the UK’s biggest advertising firms has been called out for doing precisely that on International Women’s Day. In a farewell email to colleagues, Paul Martin, the departing creative strategist at The&Partnership, categorised his female colleagues at the agency’s London office into lists, entitled, “Top Five”, “Bottom Five” and “If I’d Had A Few Too Many”, joking exactly how many pints he would have to drink before he would consider sleeping with them. On the same day as he posted messages…
Source: The Times March 16, 2018 00:00 UTC