Defamer Gift Reviews: CAA Shows Improvement, While WMA Takes It To The Next Level
As part of our continuing efforts to publicly celebrate the generous and chastise the miserly during this industry holiday gifting season, we pass along two more reports of what agencies are giving to employees and lower-ranking business associates this year. A reader lets us know that evil agenting monolith CAA has significantly improved upon last December's feeble offering:
Don't know if this is newsworthy, but for those of us who spend this time of year betting on what bargain basement, shitty-ass gift CAA bought in bulk from Taiwan, this was shocking: the gift this year is pretty sweet. A $100 Apple gift card.
While the cards represent a clear upgrade over 2005's debacle, top-level CAA agents' gift to themselves remains unchanged: On the morning of the last day before the holiday hiatus, they'll all gather in their headquarters' underground banquet hall for a year-ending feast where they'll dine on winter-fattened babies dressed in tiny, adorable Santa and reindeer outfits, which can later be recycled as festive costumes for small pets back at home. But even CAA's display of Apple-branded largesse can't match the William Morris Agency's, which just gave all of its assistants video iPods with the company's logo laser-etched onto its back (pictured), a token of appreciation that puts each of this year's reported holiday presents to shame. Unless we get word out of Endeavor that Ari Emanuel is personally giving every call-roller in the building a scented oil foot rub and a bottle of Cristal, WMA is going to be nearly impossible to beat.