How to deal with assholes
I was just reading an item on the blog of Guy Kawasaki, one of the original employees of Apple Computer. He's reviewing a book about dealing with assholes, and one of the anecdotes he recalls from his own professional life involves a certain ad agency that sounds suspiciously like Chiat/Day:
Funny thing about assholes: Standing up to them shouldn’t necessarily scare you. While I was an Apple employee, I was in a meeting with a highly placed Apple exec and Apple’s ad agency. The ad agency person showed the new television spots and said he’d give a copy to the Apple exec and me. The Apple exec told the agency person not to give one to me. I spoke up: “Are you saying you don’t trust me?” The Apple exec answered: “Yes.” To which I replied, “That’s okay because I don’t trust you either.” You know what? The sun rose the next day, and my family still loved me.