ADWEAK Self-Proclaimed ?Old School? Copywriter Fired After Returning To Office From Lunch Hammered.
CHICAGO? Days after regaling jr. creatives with tales from ?the good ol? days? of advertising, veteran copywriter Max Fleischman was fired from DDB/Chicago after returning to the office from a two-hour lunch/drinking binge. ?He was trashed,? explained Julie Reynolds, DDB Director of Personnel. Said copywriter Greg Lang, ?I always thought the stories he?d tell were pretty cool, about running up expense reports and chasing tail with Ed McCabe, but when I saw him heaving into the kitchen sink and shaking, it was a different story. Man, he was fucked up. It was kind of depressing.? While representatives from the human resource department acknowledged Fleischman was ?well-respected? by the younger members of his department, they stated they could not excuse his almost perpetual state of late-afternoon intoxication. Said Reynolds, ?Max is a great old guy and we loved having him here, but enough?s enough. There are only so many times you can rationalize his telling the receptionist she has ?cute little hoots? as ?just Max being Max.??