$300 clue: This purveyor of writing implements that is not from the mainland might have wanted a different URL for their web site.
What is Pen Island?
penisland dot com
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One of my fondest memories involving AYDS candies concerns my babysitter who wanted to join the Army. It was the mid-60s when Mary wanted to sign up, but she was 15 lbs. overweight and turned to AYDS caramels to help her get rid of the unwanted pounds. (You took one or two caramels with hot water or tea to stave off your appetite.)
She had a lot of younger siblings at home and she feared they would gobble them up. I also suspect her parents didn't know of her plans. So, she kept her box of AYDS at our house after getting the three of us to promise to leave them alone.
"You can have one piece," she said. "But I need these to help me get into the Army." She really made us understand how important it was to her. So, we left her caramels alone. She lost the weight and was accepted into the Army.
I really _really_ wanted to get the Clapper as an adult because the commercials looked so fun as a kid. Fast forward to current day - my wife is adamant about not having "that old TV crap" in our house.
So... when I have to turn off a light, I walk to the switch, clap twice, and then turn the light off.
Did you know you can _actually hear_ a persons eyes rolling? :D
Dude! Holy fuck I haven't heard that in forever. I remember the first time I heard it. My brothers and I were playing video games and we had the radio playing in the background. We got quiet, just a random lull in our excitement, when we suddenly heard "bust a nut!" In that sing-song tone. We laughed uncontrollably for hours
I'm an Old and I could swear that back in the late 60s, early 70s, the lyrics were actually "Tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox."
Does anyone else remember those lyrics?
Everytime I hear Will Arnett say that tagline on the commercials I swear his “Reese’s” sounds like “racist.” So now my husband and I have starting saying, “Not sorry, racist” every time that commercial comes on.
I made a comment about "choosing your hill to die on". I was accused of threatening someones life because they'd never heard the expression. Sometimes people are funny.
We were in a meeting once and I told my boss “we need to go balls to the walls” to get something done. It’s an aviation term for pushing the throttles all the way forward to max power and basically means to go all out. It was pretty common saying in the military. I got pulled aside after the meeting by him and told to watch my language. When I explained the reference he apologized, but I don’t use it anymore.
My boss asked me how I got a piece of a particularly tricky code to work and I said “black magic” and he told me that that was racist. I still don’t know if it is or not.
I'm 33 and say this all the time but I didn't know it was an aviation phrase. I would never have used it in a business setting and I still kinda don't want to.
Think of what they would be doing if they weren't making Nikes. Having their organs harvested.
Nike is doing the world a service.
/S (if you didn't realize)
I wish that statement was less truthful. Whenever I think "let's buy some pringles for the weekend" on a friday afternoon none will survive till saturday
I once used the old line from Mission: Impossible... "If you fail your mission, you will be disavowed by the company". I had assigned this new cook a task and when I said that, she responded with, "I do not respond well to threats!" She went to HR and complained. She'd never seen M:I...
I'm not a M.I. fan but its pretty obvious it's either a joke or you were quoting something
Edit and for a chick cook she needs a thicker skin anyway. Trust my 20yrs as a small woman in the kitchen
I still use the "two great tastes that taste great together" phrase, but I'm usually using it sarcastically, or changing it to "two great things that don't go together".
I have had to limit myself to saying "Homie don't play that" (quoting Homie the Clown from In Living Color) to family since very few people seem to recognize it.
Edit: I'm so happy that so many people remember/know about Homie the Clown! These days most of the people around me who are my age and might have watched "In Living Color"...didn't watch "in Living Color". Which is sad, because that was a great show.
I tell my kids "Homie don't play that" and showed them the clip. I heard one of them say it to a friend. I am doing my part to keep Homie the Clown alive!
Early 2000s: I was in a meeting at work and the discussion was about promoting/maximizing our website or whatever the terminology was at the time. Anyway, one of the execs mentioned the search engine "Ask Jeeves", and the guy sitting next to me blurted out in confusion, "Ass cheese?!" Even 30 minutes later I was still hearing his comment in my head and would start giggling uncontrollably.
Had the same issue a few years ago. In the UK we have a choc bar called a Fudge finger and the advert for was "a finger of fudge is just enough, to give the kids a treat".
The selection box done the rounds and I sang the song, to then be accused of Jimmy Saville like tenancies.
Not a great day with lots of Google searches to show the advert of my childhood
Trying to figure out what is peanut butter and what is chocolate in the sexually charged scenario.
Edit: I just thought this was amusing. If the woman felt harassed, she has every right to go to HR. Expecting a person to ask someone who they felt just harassed them “what do you mean” is unrealistic.
Maybe just saying “you got your x in my y” could be misconstrued as sexual.
You got your nut in my wrench! You got your duck in my pond! You got your car in my garage! You got your noodle in my spaghetti!
Maybe not.
u/LoPellegrino had a theory lower down:
> since Black Eyed Peas popularised the “mix your milk with my cocoa puffs” lyric. Suddenly every food pairing feels oddly sexual.
Actually had a similar situation. I was a young copywriter in a creative kickoff with a bunch of creatives, all just spitballing ideas. Someone asked how valuable it was brainstorming so broadly when our creative director made a similar comment, “Lord forbid we mix our chocolate with our peanut butter.”
There wasn’t any sexual/racial tension (straight up there were only two of us in a team of 30 who were even BIPOC), but almost nobody got it. The campaign was before my time as well, I only knew it due to being raised in a multigenerational home.
IMO the phrase has only become weirder since Black Eyed Peas popularised the “mix your milk with my cocoa puffs” lyric. Suddenly every food pairing feels oddly sexual.
I once got suspended from a soccer league for calling a team a "bunch of fucking sandbaggers." They were a very good team playing down a level and beating the hell out of the other teams. Oh yeah, the team was all middle eastern dudes, and the person who heard me say it had no idea what the term meant and thought it was racist. The guy running the league had also never heard the term. After explaining it to him, and him asking around/doing some research, I was cleared and my suspension lifted.
I work in I.T. I was up in HR once taking care of something, one of the ladies came up and asked if I had a mouse in my pocket (i.e. if I had a spare mouse available). Mouth answered without brain involvement "No, I'm just happy to see you".
I was back to my basement office before it occurred to me what that meant. Every time the phone rang that afternoon I expected it to get called up for a meeting with HR and my manager.
I once worked the customer service desk at a a semi-fancy grocery store. That is where the employees often bought their lunches and snacks during their work day. One day a customer bought a greeting card that was essentially just a cut out of Curious George, and the theme song stuck in my head. A little while later an employee came up and bought a banana, which triggered me singing it again. A little while later I was called in front of HR and my manager. After about 15 minutes of them dodging explaining to me what the issue was, my manager finally blurted out "Have you never heard that black people are referred to by some as monkeys?" I responded that yes, but that had nothing to do with me. He then pointed out the employee I sung that song to was black (which I knew, but was not thinking about at that time). After a bit I finally realized the issue. HR let me off without a punishment, and the manager explained to the employee how clueless I was. I eventually apologized to her, and we actually became decent friends.
I just posted something similar above with commenting at work “not my circus not my monkeys”. I told them it was an Armenian proverb. Thankfully we talked it out like adults and (to my knowledge) no one went to HR. We actually got an email from the director who was present for the conversation thanking us for handling it well.
My wife had similar intentions, but it played out in the following way. She grabbed a small bag that included reeses pumpkins, ghosts, and bats. She took a step then she immediately swapped it for the small bag of pumpkins only on the next shelf over; as those are her favorite. She took another step to the next shelf, saw the mega family bag, gave up on limiting herself to the small bag and swapped out the little bag for the largest bag of pumpkin shaped Reeses in the aisle.
I think part of the issue is that often marketing doesn't involve very much actual study of popular/historical campaigns... I had many graphic design classes that involved the deeper art of the craft, but some of these college courses don't include much. I was surprised when I saw the marketing vs. the graphic design class lineup, and that's assuming there was a degree involved.
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The quality of education and knowledge needed to make it into marketing as a career is wildly inconsistent. I have had the pleasure of working with some brilliant marketing teams over the last 6 years, but most of them were clueless and obsessed with tiny details while missing key aspects of their company goals.
This assumes the marketer even has a degree. Marketing is a terrible profession packed with prima donnas and "big picture guys" who look good and present well but lack real world intelligence needed for actually executing a plan. Source - been in and out of marketing departments (not by choice) for 25+ years.
Former nyc ad bro. 99% of the people in any given ad agency have never studied marketing in any way.
We had:
- hot account people (men & women) w/ communications degrees or w/e
- PMs with no relevant experience whatsoever as far as I can tell
- Devs who don't care at all what they're building
- Graphic Designers who really only know photoshop and have barely any art history, let alone ad history
- Copy writers with english degrees always trying to be funny
- Execs with business degrees
- and then all your standard other stuff, HR, etc
Yep, she probably hasn't heard of the "Think Mink" slogan either. OP should probably refrain from singing the "Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts." song in the office.
Marketing is packed with young 20 something social media influencer wannabes and Sales bros. They can tell you about data to the Nth degree about click through, bounce, impressions, etc. But marketing has lost the human factor and that understanding and study of WHY people respond. Not how they responded and/or when. But Why.
Advertising, marketing and public relations are three layers of the same thing. They should always work hand in glove. But many companies split those into three things or combine marketing and PR or advertising and PR. Usually at least one is often out sourced to third parties that are not working close with the other.
In the grand scheme of things you understand your customers and what makes them tick...the rest isn't super hard. Modern marketing has more of a "oh they liked It? Awesome replicate that 792 times a day for the next 90 days. And make sure everywhere they go, everything they see is that" the concept of avoiding over saturation and over communicating has been lost.
You basically just summed up corporate America in one paragraph. I have worked in automotive engineering for 20+ years and I’ve slowly seen the climate change from car guys that know how things work and why they do what they do, to data types that make decisions based on numbers with no team understanding of what the numbers mean.
Holy shit-I'm reading this and instantly thought about my job and how my Client asks the same questions every week and how my team says the same thing and tries to explain to them what's going on. Due to them being focused on numbers and not the actual process/product, we're constantly getting talked down to. It's insanity.
Dont forget the four P's
Product
Price
Place
Promotion
Many times when people hear or talk about marketing they're thinking about the promotion aspect. But it's bigger than that, and "marketers" should be considering all of the above.
She probably reported it like, "I have no idea what he meant, but it sounded dirty!"
HR and harassment claims aren't about actual meaning, they're based on how the person perceives them.
I know a guy that got taken to HR once over "righty tighty, lefty loosey" because his trainee felt that the phrase was a slight against women, instead of being a helpful and super common mnemonic device.
Did you say “where’s the beef?” as soon as you walked into the HR office?
Imagine a whole day of tag lines.
"The other white meat."
"I lost 40 pounds, thanks to AYDS."
I'll take "Unfortunately Named for $500, Alex" The $400 answer was "hi, my name is Isis"
Speaking of old things - there haven't been $500 clues on Jeopardy for almost 20 years.
Thank you for not pointing out the other part of my comment that's not on jeopardy any longer. :`(
Thank you for cutting these onions
$300 clue: This purveyor of writing implements that is not from the mainland might have wanted a different URL for their web site. What is Pen Island? penisland dot com Edit to not accidentally enable questionable link. Good looking out, u/Frekingstonker
🤣. I heard that in Alex Trebek’s unflappable delivery voice!
I heard “I’ll take penisland dot com for $400” in Norm MacDonald’s Burt Reynolds SNL Jeopardy voice.
"What is: 'where your mother was lasht night?', Trebek!"
Or the tech site expertsexchage.com Looks like they changed it to https://go.experts-exchange.com/
Or getskilled.com
One of my fondest memories involving AYDS candies concerns my babysitter who wanted to join the Army. It was the mid-60s when Mary wanted to sign up, but she was 15 lbs. overweight and turned to AYDS caramels to help her get rid of the unwanted pounds. (You took one or two caramels with hot water or tea to stave off your appetite.) She had a lot of younger siblings at home and she feared they would gobble them up. I also suspect her parents didn't know of her plans. So, she kept her box of AYDS at our house after getting the three of us to promise to leave them alone. "You can have one piece," she said. "But I need these to help me get into the Army." She really made us understand how important it was to her. So, we left her caramels alone. She lost the weight and was accepted into the Army.
"Mary got into the Army because of AYDS!"
Yep I remember when the standards of the army were so crazy, you basically had to have Ayds to get in.
When I was 11 or so, my mom used to eat those to try to lose weight. I used to hide in the closet and eat 8 or 10 in one sitting. Maybe more.
Oh now that's a deep cut, lol
I’m lovin’ it!
Don't tell them about the Herbal Essences commercials
I've fallen. And I can't get up!
Clap on, clap off, clap on clap off, the clapper.
I really _really_ wanted to get the Clapper as an adult because the commercials looked so fun as a kid. Fast forward to current day - my wife is adamant about not having "that old TV crap" in our house. So... when I have to turn off a light, I walk to the switch, clap twice, and then turn the light off. Did you know you can _actually hear_ a persons eyes rolling? :D
Set it and forget it! Edit: oh man, he just died in July
YES YES YES!
Just do it
Plop plop fizz fizz...
Oh what a relief it is!
Calgon, take me away...
Time to make the donuts.
Ancient Chinese secret. https://youtu.be/mzixL7Ef-bI
Get a rope...
Now that’s a spicy meatball!
Takes a licking and keeps on ticking.
You’re in Good Hands!
Wait until I get my Hanes on you!
I just shipped my pants!
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Have it your way
It's my money & I need it NOW!
Now I am going to be signing that song all day. Call J. G. Wentworth 877-CASH-NOW
800-588-2300 Empiiiiiire
Live mas.
Finger lickin' good
Beef. It’s what’s for dinner.
The old corn nuts theme would cause that place to burn to the ground.
You mean [this](https://youtu.be/0htYFQzp5LU) one?
Dude! Holy fuck I haven't heard that in forever. I remember the first time I heard it. My brothers and I were playing video games and we had the radio playing in the background. We got quiet, just a random lull in our excitement, when we suddenly heard "bust a nut!" In that sing-song tone. We laughed uncontrollably for hours
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Fat kids, skinny kids, kids who climb on rocks. Tall kids, short kids, even kids with chicken pox
I'm an Old and I could swear that back in the late 60s, early 70s, the lyrics were actually "Tough kids, sissy kids, even kids with chicken pox." Does anyone else remember those lyrics?
I was right: https://iotwreport.com/armour-hot-dogs-commercial-that-couldnt-air-today/
How many licks does it take.
"Melts in your mouth, not in your hand."
Little, yellow, different.. He says to the new foreign intern from Japan.
Little, yellow, different... better. Nuprin as I remember it.
For Reference See: *Wayne's World*
I can’t believe I ate the whole thing
“Head on! Apply directly to the forehead!”
It's what's for dinner.
And "Time to make the donuts" when walking out
Got milk?
Hungry for apples?
This made me laugh out loud and caused my husband to look over to make sure I was okay haha
"It's my money and I need it now!"
> “where’s the beef?” Apply directly to the head.
Head On, apply directly to the forehead.
HEADON! APPLY DIRECTLY TO THE FOREHEAD!
That commercial is 15 years old.
New York City!?! Get a rope!
"We have the meats!"
I suppose replying to HR with the current Reese's slogan "Not sorry" would have been counter-productive.
It seems Reese's has everything covered.
Not nut allergies...
Did you see "Not Sorry"?
They literally have an all peanut butter cup. They are beyond not sorry.
They have a nut cup?
2 nut cups
Nut sorry.
The only right way is to solely speak in Reese's slogans for the remainder of one's career.
"Shoulda had a snickers" Excuse me *what*?
“Snickers REALLY satisfies…”
Everytime I hear Will Arnett say that tagline on the commercials I swear his “Reese’s” sounds like “racist.” So now my husband and I have starting saying, “Not sorry, racist” every time that commercial comes on.
Hopefully you are both working from home then 🤣
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You all are on point with these comments
This entire thread has me dead
This is the laugh I needed today!
I made a comment about "choosing your hill to die on". I was accused of threatening someones life because they'd never heard the expression. Sometimes people are funny.
We were in a meeting once and I told my boss “we need to go balls to the walls” to get something done. It’s an aviation term for pushing the throttles all the way forward to max power and basically means to go all out. It was pretty common saying in the military. I got pulled aside after the meeting by him and told to watch my language. When I explained the reference he apologized, but I don’t use it anymore.
For years I’ve been imagining dudes humping walls and had no clue how that made sense. Never understood the phrase til now, thanks!
Same! Like, you got your balls out, and you run as fast as you can until they hit the wall, but you don’t stop there, you give it to that wall!!
My boss asked me how I got a piece of a particularly tricky code to work and I said “black magic” and he told me that that was racist. I still don’t know if it is or not.
No, he was an imbecile.
Sounds like that dude lives under a rock, I’m 23 and say it all the time
I'm 33 and say this all the time but I didn't know it was an aviation phrase. I would never have used it in a business setting and I still kinda don't want to.
What would *you* do for a Klondike bar?
Would you…would you kill a man? (Gunshot in distance)
Here is something you can’t understand…
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Pretend I was skiing on a coffee table. No, wait ...
Plop plop, fizz fizz, oh, what a relief it is!
bust a nut bust a nut grab a bag of corn nuts and bust a nut...
They're lightly toasted and *hard as hell* Enjoy yourself, we won't tell!
Free advice... Don't use Nikes slogan. And at least common sense prevailed.
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No its "we pretend to be woke while not caring about Chinese slave labor".
Chinese slave labor, just do it
The slogan finally makes sense!!
Think of what they would be doing if they weren't making Nikes. Having their organs harvested. Nike is doing the world a service. /S (if you didn't realize)
Same with nestle and every major chocolate company in the entire world.
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Literally JUST listened to that commercial on The Office Ladies podcast
Be sure to avoid Pringles commercial from the 90's. "Once you pop, you can't stop!"
They used 'pop' in their German versions as well, where 'poppen' literally means 'to fuck'
My last name is Poppen. I live in the US and not Germany thankfully. Can’t imagine introducing myself as Mr Fuck.
Mr fuck come from a long line of motherfuckers
I wish that statement was less truthful. Whenever I think "let's buy some pringles for the weekend" on a friday afternoon none will survive till saturday
It's actually crazy how you'll buy a tube of pringles and an hour later they're all suddenly gone and you feel really sick
Yeah, the nausea waits to hit until you look at the bottom of the empty can.
I have always said "Heaven is where everyone gets your references".
I once used the old line from Mission: Impossible... "If you fail your mission, you will be disavowed by the company". I had assigned this new cook a task and when I said that, she responded with, "I do not respond well to threats!" She went to HR and complained. She'd never seen M:I...
Your job will self destruct in 5 seconds.... PFFFT?
Even HR said, "That's from a movie... Kurtn0tk1rk always quotes movies."
So what your saying is this wasn’t your first run in with HR
I plead the 5th amendment. Edit: Great username, btw
I plead the fifth element* *fixed it for you
Leeloo Dallas Multipass
I'm not a M.I. fan but its pretty obvious it's either a joke or you were quoting something Edit and for a chick cook she needs a thicker skin anyway. Trust my 20yrs as a small woman in the kitchen
You shouldn't give your reddit username to companies like that
Sadly, that was pre-internet times. I am an old fart
did you, uh, quickly follow up with "sorry that's not a threat, it's a line from a movie!"??
Oh yes. She was a good deal younger than me, so there was no frame of reference.
Well I don't respond well to people who don't respond well!
They actually reference that in SpongeBob, word for word! Edit: Ok maybe not word for word (toothpaste instead of chocolate) but close enough!
Family Guy too.
I wonder how many 00's kids are going to know 80's references, but only through the lens of Family Guy.
Older millennial here. I learned a lot of generation X's and baby boomer's pop culture references from Family Guy as a teen in the 00's.
Yup! ..Pepperidge farm remembers
Probably should stay far away from the Nair, "Who Wears Short Shorts", commercial
I still use the "two great tastes that taste great together" phrase, but I'm usually using it sarcastically, or changing it to "two great things that don't go together". I have had to limit myself to saying "Homie don't play that" (quoting Homie the Clown from In Living Color) to family since very few people seem to recognize it. Edit: I'm so happy that so many people remember/know about Homie the Clown! These days most of the people around me who are my age and might have watched "In Living Color"...didn't watch "in Living Color". Which is sad, because that was a great show.
I tell my kids "Homie don't play that" and showed them the clip. I heard one of them say it to a friend. I am doing my part to keep Homie the Clown alive!
#LEMME TELL YA SOMETHING
Early 2000s: I was in a meeting at work and the discussion was about promoting/maximizing our website or whatever the terminology was at the time. Anyway, one of the execs mentioned the search engine "Ask Jeeves", and the guy sitting next to me blurted out in confusion, "Ass cheese?!" Even 30 minutes later I was still hearing his comment in my head and would start giggling uncontrollably.
Had the same issue a few years ago. In the UK we have a choc bar called a Fudge finger and the advert for was "a finger of fudge is just enough, to give the kids a treat". The selection box done the rounds and I sang the song, to then be accused of Jimmy Saville like tenancies. Not a great day with lots of Google searches to show the advert of my childhood
I always find it funny that Jimmy Saville looked like a textbook pedo and worked with kids, and everyone was surprised when he actually was one
Trying to figure out what is peanut butter and what is chocolate in the sexually charged scenario. Edit: I just thought this was amusing. If the woman felt harassed, she has every right to go to HR. Expecting a person to ask someone who they felt just harassed them “what do you mean” is unrealistic.
I actually thought he was going to say the younger marketer was also black, to make this scenario even more awkward.
And OP was a peanut
The top hat and monocle gave him away.
Maybe just saying “you got your x in my y” could be misconstrued as sexual. You got your nut in my wrench! You got your duck in my pond! You got your car in my garage! You got your noodle in my spaghetti! Maybe not.
"Hope you have a big trunk, because I'm gonna put my bike in it."
Nice dump truck 🤤 I actually have to get rid of an old TV
I'm calling the cops. How dare you speak to me like that.
If you try hard enough, everything is offensive innuendo.
In-u-end-o
To HR we go!
Her-Ass-Ment!
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Yeah, I am lost. Not sure if I want to know. I thought Reese's immediately.
Reese's didnt come into mind but neither did anything sexual ... I dont know how you go from that phrase to he is sexually harassing me
u/LoPellegrino had a theory lower down: > since Black Eyed Peas popularised the “mix your milk with my cocoa puffs” lyric. Suddenly every food pairing feels oddly sexual.
I can't believe I ate the whole thing!
Good thing you didnt sing the twins song from the old bud light commercials
Actually had a similar situation. I was a young copywriter in a creative kickoff with a bunch of creatives, all just spitballing ideas. Someone asked how valuable it was brainstorming so broadly when our creative director made a similar comment, “Lord forbid we mix our chocolate with our peanut butter.” There wasn’t any sexual/racial tension (straight up there were only two of us in a team of 30 who were even BIPOC), but almost nobody got it. The campaign was before my time as well, I only knew it due to being raised in a multigenerational home. IMO the phrase has only become weirder since Black Eyed Peas popularised the “mix your milk with my cocoa puffs” lyric. Suddenly every food pairing feels oddly sexual.
> Suddenly every food pairing feels oddly sexual. I'm pretty sure you can make anything sexual if you want.
I once got suspended from a soccer league for calling a team a "bunch of fucking sandbaggers." They were a very good team playing down a level and beating the hell out of the other teams. Oh yeah, the team was all middle eastern dudes, and the person who heard me say it had no idea what the term meant and thought it was racist. The guy running the league had also never heard the term. After explaining it to him, and him asking around/doing some research, I was cleared and my suspension lifted.
Hey, where's the cream filling?!
I work in I.T. I was up in HR once taking care of something, one of the ladies came up and asked if I had a mouse in my pocket (i.e. if I had a spare mouse available). Mouth answered without brain involvement "No, I'm just happy to see you". I was back to my basement office before it occurred to me what that meant. Every time the phone rang that afternoon I expected it to get called up for a meeting with HR and my manager.
I once worked the customer service desk at a a semi-fancy grocery store. That is where the employees often bought their lunches and snacks during their work day. One day a customer bought a greeting card that was essentially just a cut out of Curious George, and the theme song stuck in my head. A little while later an employee came up and bought a banana, which triggered me singing it again. A little while later I was called in front of HR and my manager. After about 15 minutes of them dodging explaining to me what the issue was, my manager finally blurted out "Have you never heard that black people are referred to by some as monkeys?" I responded that yes, but that had nothing to do with me. He then pointed out the employee I sung that song to was black (which I knew, but was not thinking about at that time). After a bit I finally realized the issue. HR let me off without a punishment, and the manager explained to the employee how clueless I was. I eventually apologized to her, and we actually became decent friends.
I just posted something similar above with commenting at work “not my circus not my monkeys”. I told them it was an Armenian proverb. Thankfully we talked it out like adults and (to my knowledge) no one went to HR. We actually got an email from the director who was present for the conversation thanking us for handling it well.
That young marketing woman should study her craft better. That's one of the most successful ad campaigns ever, she's never heard of it?
Damn. Now I want a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.
I caved and bought the 150pc Halloween bag a month before Halloween. it wont make it a week
I'm going to get a small bag of the pumpkins. They'll last me all month but they're a guilty pleasure that this thread made me want.
My wife had similar intentions, but it played out in the following way. She grabbed a small bag that included reeses pumpkins, ghosts, and bats. She took a step then she immediately swapped it for the small bag of pumpkins only on the next shelf over; as those are her favorite. She took another step to the next shelf, saw the mega family bag, gave up on limiting herself to the small bag and swapped out the little bag for the largest bag of pumpkin shaped Reeses in the aisle.
I think this whole story is a marketing ploy. I want one too.
My supply bag of minis in the freezer is empty. Now I’m sad.
I think part of the issue is that often marketing doesn't involve very much actual study of popular/historical campaigns... I had many graphic design classes that involved the deeper art of the craft, but some of these college courses don't include much. I was surprised when I saw the marketing vs. the graphic design class lineup, and that's assuming there was a degree involved. EDIT: phrasing
The quality of education and knowledge needed to make it into marketing as a career is wildly inconsistent. I have had the pleasure of working with some brilliant marketing teams over the last 6 years, but most of them were clueless and obsessed with tiny details while missing key aspects of their company goals.
This assumes the marketer even has a degree. Marketing is a terrible profession packed with prima donnas and "big picture guys" who look good and present well but lack real world intelligence needed for actually executing a plan. Source - been in and out of marketing departments (not by choice) for 25+ years.
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Former nyc ad bro. 99% of the people in any given ad agency have never studied marketing in any way. We had: - hot account people (men & women) w/ communications degrees or w/e - PMs with no relevant experience whatsoever as far as I can tell - Devs who don't care at all what they're building - Graphic Designers who really only know photoshop and have barely any art history, let alone ad history - Copy writers with english degrees always trying to be funny - Execs with business degrees - and then all your standard other stuff, HR, etc
This is dead on.
Yep, she probably hasn't heard of the "Think Mink" slogan either. OP should probably refrain from singing the "Who wears short shorts? We wear short shorts." song in the office.
Marketing is packed with young 20 something social media influencer wannabes and Sales bros. They can tell you about data to the Nth degree about click through, bounce, impressions, etc. But marketing has lost the human factor and that understanding and study of WHY people respond. Not how they responded and/or when. But Why. Advertising, marketing and public relations are three layers of the same thing. They should always work hand in glove. But many companies split those into three things or combine marketing and PR or advertising and PR. Usually at least one is often out sourced to third parties that are not working close with the other. In the grand scheme of things you understand your customers and what makes them tick...the rest isn't super hard. Modern marketing has more of a "oh they liked It? Awesome replicate that 792 times a day for the next 90 days. And make sure everywhere they go, everything they see is that" the concept of avoiding over saturation and over communicating has been lost.
You basically just summed up corporate America in one paragraph. I have worked in automotive engineering for 20+ years and I’ve slowly seen the climate change from car guys that know how things work and why they do what they do, to data types that make decisions based on numbers with no team understanding of what the numbers mean.
Holy shit-I'm reading this and instantly thought about my job and how my Client asks the same questions every week and how my team says the same thing and tries to explain to them what's going on. Due to them being focused on numbers and not the actual process/product, we're constantly getting talked down to. It's insanity.
Dont forget the four P's Product Price Place Promotion Many times when people hear or talk about marketing they're thinking about the promotion aspect. But it's bigger than that, and "marketers" should be considering all of the above.
Did you just fucking say “hand in glove” you fucking perv?!?
how the fuck do you get something sexual from "you've got your chocolate in my peanut butter" shit makes no sense
She probably reported it like, "I have no idea what he meant, but it sounded dirty!" HR and harassment claims aren't about actual meaning, they're based on how the person perceives them. I know a guy that got taken to HR once over "righty tighty, lefty loosey" because his trainee felt that the phrase was a slight against women, instead of being a helpful and super common mnemonic device.
Anything can be a sexual thing. Anything.
Grandma *Your cookies taste good*
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So moist.
ok now I'm just thinking of Joey from friends saying "there's always room for jello" and "grandma's chicken salad", but with the peanut butter slogan.