London creatives protest fossil gas purchasers

News Author


A community of creatives referred to as Glimpse is campaigning towards company fossil gas promoting by, inter alia, handing out a pamphlet ‘The ‘The Transient Sabotage Handbook’ outdoors the London places of work of WPP companies and large PR agency Edelman.

The handbook, stated to be satirical, incorporates tips about sabotaging work for purchasers together with BP and Shell together with recommendation on find out how to confuse planners. Cynics may say that is fairly run of the mill in lots of companies. The message is: “Delay. Dither. Bungle. Wreck the temporary.”

Glimpse founder James Turner says: “The sabotage handbook that we’ve created is meant to be one thing that sits on the water cooler that will get handed across the workplace. Folks may smile and joke about it, however it permits folks to have what may be fairly a difficult dialog within the workplace and makes it somewhat bit simpler as a result of humour typically does.”

Hardly a clarion name to the barricades then however an fascinating instance of the disquiet right now’s technology of creatives and others really feel in regards to the purchasers they work on.

WPP’s Ogilvy and Wunderman Thompson and indie Edelman (not normally misplaced for phrases) declined to remark. Which might be code for: ‘Shit, what do we are saying about this? Possibly it’ll go away.”