Phillips Design

If Advertising were Greek Myth. As if! (A response to Lee’s post)

So, if you’re following us on Facebook, you’ll notice we have interns for the Summer. I was originally thinking we could bring them in with the idea that their presence would help me outnumber and overrule Lee in the decision-making process – we can gang up on him!

The Benefits of Having Interns

However, it turns out there’s and awesome benefit to an internship… they get to learn something about design. About the business. About fear. Yes, they are going to get a baptism by fire at Phillips Design this Summer. (Oh, pity the poor interns.)

But, with an internship program, we at Phillips Design also learn about ourselves. We’re reminded how much we’ve learned from decades in the industry. We learn about why our culture works so well. (And I learn about how the heck to manage people! More on this later.)

Most importantly, Lee learns what it’s like to be clean from profanity for a few hours a day. This has been tough for him – but very good for the rest of us. For instance, everyday just before the interns arrive, Lee burps out a cathartic profanity stream to clear out his system. Maybe we should institute an “earmuffs” system where the interns cover their ears like in the movie Old School.

Intern Blog Assignment

So I asked Lee, the boss, if I could introduce the interns and have them say something on the blog about what they’ve learned so far. He said that’s fine, but in his characteristic style, gave them some requirements for the assignment:

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We’ve just finished a comprehensive overhaul of the tools that help run Phillips Design. Included among those is a new website on a refreshed and updated hosting platform with a full content-management system backend. Perhaps this sounds like mumbo-jumbo now, but we’re willing to wade through the mumbo jumbo to run our company more efficiently.

Keep tuned as we explore this direction and expand what it means to run a small business right.