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.