How to get Dr Mumbo to write about you: take 2
There are certain conversations that you probably shouldn’t have on public transport… unless you want Dr Mumbo to write about you.
For example, if you find your company in a legal stoush with an Olympic Committee over an ad which had a version of Peter Allen’s song “I go to Rio” in it then, maybe, just maybe, you shouldn’t be recapping the experience in public spaces.
Especially a packed train carriage heading through Wynyard station in Sydney.
That would be a bad place to tell your friend (and the 20 other people around) loudly about the fight your company is currently having with an unnamed “Olympic Committee” which had seen an ad pulled.
And when your friend then questions you if you’d been reckless enough as to put the word “Rio” in the ad, it’s probably not a great idea to boast that you most certainly did, but that you’re not worried because it all went through the legal team. (Phew!)
But if you do, you may as well say with confidence you’re expecting to win the upcoming court case about it.
Just what could this person have been talking about? Dr Mumbo has an idea.
Just a reminder everyone. Dr Mumbo’s spies are everywhere… even the 6.05pm train heading from Central to Hornsby.
xoxo, gossip girl
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Stop snitching Dr.Mumbo!
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Reminded of overhearing media planners for a large fast food chain talking about their client’s media negotiations on a train (not in this country). As I was working for their client’s competitor at the time it was quite a handy eavesdrop.
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There’s enough information here that it will likley result in a job loss for the person(s) involved.
Knowing this, was the time/location/date detail necessary, Mumbo?
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A few years back I was working on a media pitch for a major bank, travelling home and sitting just in front of the key client (who didn’t know me but I knew them) as they were discussing the costs and rates our competitor was offering.
That information came in very handy 😉
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Really, people use company names in public discussions? That is very silly. Just talk using the names of the people at the company. I assume anyone in public is a relative or a friend of an interested business.
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Would love to say that this goes double for the flight from LAX to AUS on the way to SXSW.
Enjoy yourselves by all means, staff from an agency that is a colour and a smell, but don’t talk trash about your clients on a flight packed shoulder to shoulder with Ozzy marketers, agency bods and trade reporters.
Embarrassing much.
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Yeras ago my agency was on a pitch to design the Austar logo. The guy sitting next to me on a bus took out a pad and started designing the current star logo. Coincidentally, it was the same as our proposed logo – honest. I fest up and told the guy who I was. He panicked and they pitched a different logo. We won.
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