Worth pointing out that I was working at an agency, so I was still an employee with salary: I just had to deal with all this other crap too. But yeah, I prefer

Worth pointing out that I was working at an agency, so I was still an employee with salary: I just had to deal with all this other crap too. But yeah, I prefer working in-house to working for an agency. Besides the fact that I think the work tends to be more interesting and generally done to a higher standard, I don't think the same dynamics exist. Maybe this is just my experience, but I don't find the boss <-> employee relationship to be nearly as adversarial as the client <-> supplier relationship. Additionally, I think most managers are just less penny-conscious about their employees are than most clients are about their agencies, probably because the budgeting processes are different. I mention this, because I'm conscious that you can frame salaried employment in equivalent terms to client <-> agency dynamics. I just don't think that framing tends to be true, because I think there are other social and economic dynamics at work.