{"id":419,"date":"2008-02-27T15:37:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=419"},"modified":"2008-02-27T15:37:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T22:37:09","slug":"bitch-is-the-new-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=419","title":{"rendered":"Bitch is the New Black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, at the end of a work event that we had to BEG people to attend (it was a charity event), a colleague who did nothing to help boost attendance though it was her responsibility to do so came up to me and said, &#8220;Next year, we really need to drum up some excitement about this. It&#8217;s a great event!&#8221; She then went on to tell one of my supervisors and me about what a shitty PR person I am.<\/p>\n<p>I went home after the event and vented to GTB for a good 30 minutes. I&#8217;m pretty sure that toward the end of my rant, I was foaming at the mouth.<\/p>\n<p>This afternoon, I attended a meeting offsite where someone I worked with on a project last summer told a roomful of people, yours truly included, that my company &#8220;totally dicked up&#8221; the project. <\/p>\n<p>I IMed GTB when I got back to work and said that by the time I left the meeting, I was ready to hit someone with my car.<\/p>\n<p>GTB&#8217;s response: &#8220;You have a lot of anger right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As I hastened to defend myself, explaining that it isn&#8217;t anger it&#8217;s just that I&#8217;m too pregnant to be expected to be tolerant of other people&#8217;s bullshit, I realized that he might have a point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, at the end of a work event that we had to BEG people to attend (it was a charity event), a colleague who did nothing to help boost attendance though it was her responsibility to do so came up to me and said, &#8220;Next year, we really need to drum up some excitement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}