Not everyone gets the true marketing agency experience of working across teams on different verticals and projects. If you end up working for one of the larger, more difficult clients, you can get drained fairly quickly because of the people and the how-tos. Some clients also don’t have a lot of work so you spend a lot of time across months trying to find something to fill up your time sheet. I’m fairly certain more than 15 people quit in my first 3 months. Due to the silos you might never be privy to all the wonderful things happening inside Trendline. For a company that creates white papers and blogs on email marketing innovation and strategy, I can’t say I see much of either on the client I work with. Our suggestions are often disregarded which makes you second guess why we work for a client who doesn’t let our expertise guide them in any way. Additionally for us to be SMEs the way some incidents were handled was questionable at best. Felt very unorganized and inefficient, and it was drawn out for entirely way too long. There’s a DEI group. With Covid in place I obviously can’t speak on how it worked before but it doesn’t actually seem like they get any real support from majority of the coworkers. Just having a committee and saying we are anti racism isn’t enough.
