Jan 21, 2018
A storyteller and advertiser, Robbie talks working for Playgirl magazine, working with Apple and Steve Jobs to bring tech to the people, rampant sexual assault in the ad business, and getting a vial of cocaine as a bonus. Strap in, welcome to the 80s.
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8:15 We took the jobs that nobody else wanted. We ended up
hitting a home run because nobody paid attention to us. Nobody was
really looking at what we were doing.
11:45 I could go on, and on, and on, and on. I'm what?
Around 50 now. Still happened to me three years ago. It's still
happening. I was just talking to someone last night about it. It
happened at a different ad agency where I worked. Really, really
bad. I was with the president of the agency in his office. It was
so bad, and his reaction was to send me a dozen white roses the
next day, which who the heck does that because I'm an employee at
your place, and everybody is going to wonder why the president is
sending me a dozen white roses. We were so conditioned to look the
other way that people were like,"Oh, so and so is sending you
roses. He must have ... another mistake, another mistake."
15:15 I remember going on the plane one time and this man
condescendingly, but he was trying to be nice I'm sure, looked at
me and goes,"What is that? Your sewing machine?". Because I had
this big computer I'm carrying around. I'm like, "No. It's a
personal computer." He had no idea what that was.