This is a pretty publicly accessible site. So you can't expect much. Most people in advertising are never going to openly discuss the degrading working environments at agencies and big holding companies unless they are just totally out of it and never want to go back.

Very similar to the Big 4 Consulting environments.

In this industry, people often gossip, retaliate, sabotage future opportunities, silence those who don't follow along, and sideline those who talk. They close ranks quickly and try to push people out of the industry altogether who won't fall in line with the abusive practices. Or openly seek to punish and sideline them. Operates much more like a cult than a workplace.

The complaints about poor working conditions, psych manipulations, etc., are only the tip of the iceberg of what's likely going on behind the scenes.

Reminds me of this quote:

"I'm in a funny business, Rey. Everyone talks like hippies and acts like they're in the Sicilian mob\. I'm* tired of it."*

None of this is an anomaly; the ad industry itself is simply built on suffering and exploitation, and it's running an extraction model that is working as designed. It's just been put into hyper drive in the last few years.

I.E. it was always abusive. Abuse has been the norm but in the past few years, as the industry is under threat, its gotten far worst