ColemanMedia Report

Director of Southwest Sales Simon Nash knows that senior media planner Dara Schlesinger is on vacation, but wants to check in to see if there is anything that he might be able to provide for her in the mean time, according to three voice messages left in Schlesinger’s voice mail inbox late last week.  According to the messages, Nash already spoke with the receptionist, and knows that Schlesinger will be out until next week, but thought he would check in just in case, and apologizes for “adding to your backlog.”  Schlesinger, who returned to the office Monday morning to over 1,300 emails and 26 voice messages, found three voice messages and 16 emails from Nash sent during her two-week vacation.  ”This is getting ridiculous,” said Schlesinger.  ”If he knew I was on vacation until the 28th, what made him think that leaving a second or third message would do anything other than annoy the hell out of me?”

Director of West Coast Sales Joey O’Brien left the 56th follow-up to his introductory email Tuesday morning to the voice mail inbox of Senior Media Planner Chet Petersen, according to sources at the San Francisco office of Publicease North America.  According to Petersen, the follow-up calls and emails began approximately 37 seconds after Petersen sent a cursory e-mail response thanking O’Brien for his interest in his clients’ media strategies, and have continued at a rate of approximately 3 per hour since then.  “This is ridiculous, man,” said Petersen.  ”I answered his email as a courtesy, now I can’t get rid of the guy.  I mean he started out by asking if I had time to meet tomorrow, and now he’s accusing me of doing a disservice to my clients by ignoring him.  Relax, man, I’ll get back to you as soon as I deal with the 600 other sales reps that called me yesterday.”