Johnnie Moore

Johnnie Moore

I’m Johnnie Moore, and I help people work better together

How’s this for an ad agency? Huh?

huh? is an enclave of new-age e-movers. We use catchy names for our job titles, like Vision Guidance Leader instead of Project Manager. Cool names make us sound smarter and more clever.

Our CEO is rarely in his office, and all female team members are expected to sleep with him or at least pretend like they want to. Our designers ride Razor scooters around the office instead of walking, while wearing mail-bag style backpacks to hold their iPods.

We have lots of shiny espresso machines, and all of our new-age e-movers (that’s our cool way to say “employees,” remember?) drive to work in VW Beetles. Appearance is everything to us, because we’ll get more of your money by looking cool than we will by doing quality work.

If you call our office, the phone will be answered by a very disinterested intern, giving you the impression that we’re too important to talk to you. Because we are.

A funny spoof that has a grain of truth in it. Perhaps more. Thanks to John Moore (the US one) by way of David Young for pointing this out.

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