Talking turkey at bonus time – or how about a seal?
Steve Dann, who has stepped down from PR and media group Seal after longer than he cares to remember, has been reminiscing about turkeys.
It seems that prior to the demand for Christmas bonuses, Seal used to give the staff a frozen turkey as a goodwill gesture for their efforts during the course of the year.
Except on the first occasion they did it Steve got his nicked.
Some part-time accounts lady, who had not been allocated one but didn’t realise that, walked off with it.
What you call a turkey-napping.
And the rest of the staff, as you do at Christmas, decided on a few drinks and a dance.
Ended up at Bobby Brown’s nightclub with the turkeys still in tow.
They couldn’t get them all into the fridge and so had to park them around the venue in what were deemed to be the coldest spots.
And, no doubt, with the demise of bonuses, now beyond the pale following all the banking greed, we surely await The Return of the Turkey this coming December.
I suppose, thinking corporate messaging, they actually ought to provide the staff with a seal. Except it would never fit in the oven.
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Joy Stefanicki, back in the UK via New York and Peru, has set up her own marketing and PR agency.
She has rather cleverly called it Joyous Communications.
Stretching the gag though by listing her address as that of her parents in the Southampton area. They live in Giggleswick Cottage.
Nevertheless she still has her flat in Birmingham and is open for business from the Midlands.
They say the last thing you should cut in a recession is your marketing budget. At least so she hopes.
(Oh, by the way, she’s also still on the look out for a man!)
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Things are hotting up for the volunteers of the Birmingham Community Foundation who are set to man the bar at Metro in the city centre tonight.
All about raising funds for an organisation which helps more than 900 local charity and community projects each year.
What to wear has been the topic of the moment. “I hear topless waiters are all the rage now,” says veteran Nick Venning, one of the likely lads who will be pulling pints along with Derek Inman, Graham Nichol, John Matthews, Ed James and David Bucknall.
PR babe Jenny Chatham who looks after the charity has quietly discouraged this latest idea.
Presumably in case Venning made a right tit of himself!
Anyway, the event starts at 5.30 pm and runs for a couple of hours.
All rotten tomato throwers welcome.
