These days, it's impossible to miss Patrick Brett's arrival. The
Saatchi & Saatchi chief operating officer's approach is now heralded by
something akin to a shake of a mariachi.
Apparently Brett recently underwent surgery to remove 38 (yes, 38!)
gallstones that he now keeps in a jar, which he happily waves around. At
other times he keeps the jar on his desk, but is also known to lay the
stones out on a sheet of paper just to get them out for a bit of fresh
air."I like to carry the jar around with me and jiggle it at people," he
said. There's proof that this is more than just a creation of a fertile
imagination.
Media's own Ken McKenzie recently had the pleasure of personally
inspecting Brett's gall-stones while having dinner one night in Bangkok.
Brett blamed the gallstones on too much work and stress. "This is what
happens when you work too hard for Saatchi's," quipped Brett, who is
responsible for a huge swatch of Saatchi's real estate, covering
Southeast Asia and India.
Talking about over-work, the top guys at Reader's Digest have been
juggling two jobs at the same time.Associate publisher Peter Jeffery and
his team-mate Anne-Louise McWilliam have been spotted modelling for the
title.
Is it true that Jeffery was paid in kind - with the weighing scales?
