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I’m all up for non-hierarchical, non-profit, non-elitist organisations but they do tend to read better on paper than in practice. Consequently I have found such organisations are equally democratic in their inability to get anything done! Having a manager or creative director may be pompous but at least you know who to approach and you can guarantee that they’ll get back to you. I’ve had two awful experiences recently that have led to this vast generalisation and sitting down on the blog seems the best way to vent my spleen.

Trying to arrange an interview with people from such environments is near on impossible because nobody really seems to want to take responsibility for anything. ‘It’s not down to me’, ‘I thought Felix was dealing with it’, ‘we were just about to call a meeting and decide how to go about dealing with your enquiry’. This is when you want to get all Nikey with them and scream – Just Do It. Just press reply on the email and type a few words. It’s not that complicated. Granted saving the world from a vulgar shallow consumerism is a notable priority, but common courtesy is hardly that pressing in the grand scale of things.

I’m far too polite (‘conservative wanker’) to be more specific about my angst which no doubt will lead to some fanciful and conspiratorial conjecture should those in question read this blog, but I know they won’t because that would entail coming to a decision which is oh so corporate.

Ok. Better stop here before I get all Daily Mail. I’m just frustrated because I like the organisations in question and hate seeing such things conform to type – a myth which I have inadvertently added to already, such is the toxic nature of the hack. Maybe they just don’t trust journos. Shit, I never thought of that…