THE LIFESTYLE OF BEAUTY AND LIES

I work in an industry where everyone kisses each other's ass. We're all good at it and it is necessary for us to survive. Problem is, I hate it. Don't get me wrong. I love the result of what I do, I just sometimes don't like what I have to do to get my job done. The end justifies the means eh? Not so much. It really does take its toll. And since my son is still 12 years old and I need to put him through at least 9 years more of school, the words that come to mind are: SUCK IT UP. So, let this blog be my release of sorts without really hurting anyone. Don't worry, it won't all be bad. More like random excerpts of the things I go through for my job plus other things I want to add to the mix. Enjoy :-)

INSECURITIES ARE FOREVER

I thought diamonds were the only things that were forever. Apparently not. I logged on to my Facebook account today and on my news feed was a post from--- let's call him Lester to--- let's call her Tamsin.

It went like this: "I have a question, for one who crowned you "XXXXXXXXX" as a cover in cousin XXXXXX's XXXXXXXXX in 2000, WHY oh why haven't you EVER published my picture in your column or even invite me to your house party EVER. Have I offended you? We were once close, wondering WHAT went wrong. Enlighten me please."

Wow! I'm not sure if he didn't realize he was posting it in a very public manner or not but it's out there now. Remember people, when someone in this industry does something for you, you HAVE to be in their debt FOREVER. Mafia much? Someone needs to get a life... or at the very least learn to send private messages.

KAPALMUKS

Unfortunately, there are people who have been in this industry for so long that they feel like everyone around them should be so lucky if they even pay the smallest bit of attention to them. Sad but true. A recent experience really made my stomach turn. I was hired by a certain service company to help them get press releases out about their new branch. The deal was, I get media/lifestyle personalities to try out a service at their shop for free and all they gotta do is write about their experience. Pretty simple, right? Well, I got a call from a certain person asking to avail of the free service, let's call her Maria. Maria said she would go get the service done and then write about her experience in the upcoming issue of her magazine. We texted back and forth the next couple of days figuring out the schedule after which I added her to my roster and submitted my contract to the service company, let's call them Saharra. Saharra ok'd the contract with one exception--- Maria. Apparently, Maria and 2 other girls from her magazine already approached them earlier this year and availed of services with a list of release promises which never came to pass. I texted Maria and asked her about it in a very delicate way, not even mentioning that I knew any details. I just mentioned I was having a problem getting her request approved as there seems to have been a problem with some previous releases earlier in the year. I even asked her to look into it. Guess what? She never replied to any of my textes after that. Not even to pretend to check on it. Isn't it the responsibility of any employee of any company to at least pretend that they care? Guilty na, kapalmuks pa.