When Keith Thomson took a job as an ad-agency copywriting trainee at the age of 22, he wasn't exactly a naif. But he didn't expect that his two male supervisors would concoct a casting call for a bogus pantyhose manufacturer and proceed to test more than the acting abilities of the fashion models who responded.
Even as Thomson's illusions about suave and polished ad executives were dashed, so was his expectation that work would be a conventional meritocracy. "There is a meritocracy, but the merits are much different than you assume: sleeping your way to the top, playing golf with the right guy or drinking yourself silly in a barroom," says Thomson, who has just published his first novel. "You're looking for people to be your idols and mentors," he adds, but "one after another you realize there aren't any perfect people at work."
that was TOTALLY a Rance story! Sent to me complements of The Bard Sinister.
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