Green

>be me
>33y.o.
>Junior artistic director for a publishing house
>Manage 20 people in my office
>We take care of the graphics and the layout of some minor magazines
>Send an internal communication to my staff
>Business objectives, implementation methods, a lot of other stuff
>Add a paragraph to encourage employees to be creative and submit me their ideas about new magazine graphics
>The last line was "...and remember Green is not a creative color"
>Did that because at the time I was watching dont hug me I'm scared
>Would be nice add this silly reference
>Three months later
>Informal meeting with the general manager
>Towards the end of the meeting GM ask me "hey anon, why green is not a creative color?"
>In his hand, my old communication to the staff
>I had completely forgotten
>Before I can say anything another Junior says "yeah I've heard this thing too"
>Another one "some time ago I read this thing in a marketing research"
>Many other people nodding like they all vastly know this
>In no time everyone in the room was talking about some kind of research that claimed the green wasn't a color suitable for advertising and creative process
>I just say "yes, more or less as they say"
>Gm nodding intrested
>He decide to use my advice also for the other offices
>"good job anon!"
>Thanks to me, now an entire publishing house thinks "green is not a creative color"
>MFW