Don't tell me
I had to work with one of the most famous PR people in the world* and her genius idea at the height of our event? She'd got an underling to type the name of the event into Google, screenshot websites where we were mentioned, encode them into PDF and send to me to "update the website with". Quite how a selection of PDF screenshots would have improved the News section of the site (which already contained links to all those sites with a few pictures) was never explained, but she bitched about it until it got put up there.

And for someone who's so praised as a global communicator, her obtuse one-line emails are fucking incomprehensible.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:06, 1 reply)

I once saw...
...a Director from a PR firm have a panic attack and have to leave a meeting with a client, because someone had asked a difficult question.

It wasn't even a pressurised environment (v. nice client). Or a hard question.

Their comms skills and ability to deal with normal, everyday situations are often rather lacking...

And yeah - I forgot about their habit for sending press clippings.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 27 May 2010, 13:10, closed)