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If you or anyone you know work at a major media outlet, please forward this and the entire story to them. If this was said by a leader at Goldman Sachs, a movie studio, any business but advertising they would be fired. The context that it was said in Cannes on a company all expense paid trip to the most expensive region of the world for a week, while employees suffer stripped back prescription drug benefits, the near-end of 401(k) matching, and work harder and harder for less than less, whole this company had the most massive layoffs in the history of advertising this year, and the Omnicom CEO earned over $70 million needs to be front page news in business publications. This executive needs to be held accountable for what she said what she meant and the effect on all of us who work at this global organization. Please forward to anybody you can find at those publications

People posting proud pictures of themselves with trophies, good for you, what a huge achievement. But people bragging about being at this event without any work to justify it, what are you bragging about exactly? Being important enough at your agency to have been flown there? Posting about the celebrities they met, never acknowledging the work that the festival is there to celebrate. But just about themselves and their ability to have convinced someone to fly them there and put them in some party. It’s gross. Humility is a virtue.

The excuse for this expenditure of money that could’ve gone towards saving people‘s jobs has always been, ‘everybody who’s going is in leadership, meetings, seminars, or with clients’. This exposes what it really is. A vacation paid for by the company, paid for by salaries, bonuses, raises, and jobs. Shareholders need to be told. This should cause a general strike.