Posts Tagged ‘colleagues’

Basking in the love of my colleagues

February 4th, 2011 by Phil

I’ve been at Eulogy! for ever such a long time, man and boy (and once woman, but we won’t go into that now), and one of the many things that has kept me here has been the people that I work with.

Everyone knows colleagues are important; you’d have to be a pretty cold sort of person to spend the majority of your waking life in the company of people you didn’t enjoy. And even if you’re not best mates with every single one of them, being able to pull together in a crisis, share biscuits at the 3pm afternoon lull, or talk about last night’s TV round the proverbial water cooler, all help to make Mondays to Fridays that little bit more comfortable.

At Eulogy!, and I’m sure the same can be said by many other agencies, we pride ourselves on the culture we’ve created. Even after the changes (in size, staff and structure) I’ve witnessed over the last nine years, our culture has remained intact, and continues to be something that we eulogise about to prospects, clients and peers alike.

And even today; a day when I’ve been left smarting by a particularly well orchestrated ‘let’s all unfollow Phil on Twitter because he’s about to hit 100 followers’ campaign by my (bastard) colleagues, I still love working here. It really is that good.

That or I’m a sadist (which if you’d seen the size of the high heels I was wearing, you’d fully believe).

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The portrayal of PR

July 29th, 2009 by Katrina

As Eulogy!’s resident film geek, it never fails to amaze me how badly films seem to understand PR. Take Hancock, for example, where the ‘PR’ man actually worked in branding. Or de Niro’s role in Wag the Dog, where his character veers wildly from spin doctor to – bizarrely – warmonger to film director – but never actually what I would term PR.

This misunderstanding of the scope of PR runs across TV as well – just think how many people in the world think PR is what Edwina does in Ab Fab, or the spin doctoring in the BBC’s Absolute Power. While it might be part of the job (sometimes) to drink champagne, hold random brainstorms in circular rooms or spend time at long client lunches, nothing as yet has truly encapsulated the work that goes in behind the scenes to these perks or the real scope of the role.

Perhaps it’s because PR is so multidimensional; even in our office the work I do from day to day can vary wildly from what my colleagues are up to. Maybe it’s down to the shifting nature of media relations/ corporate communications/ event management/ client management and the hundred other roles that PR can, and does, accomplish. I just know I still have trouble explaining what my job really entails to my parents when something we have done appears in the paper.  Should PR do a better job on its own coverage?

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