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This week is mental.

KAITLIN!  WHEN are the media releases going out??  Why haven’t they gone out??  If you do ONE thing today, it should be THAT! 

Excuuuuuuuse me???  Are you fucking joking right now?

I wrote three news releases last week.  They got approved, translated, and sent to PR to send to editors.  The idiot PR lady doesn’t look at them until TUESDAY, when they were set to release.  She then decides to make a million changes.  I bitch and complain, because this means tackling the VP for approval, then getting them translated all over again, and I know our translator is mental busy and needs about a week to get anything done for me, so frankly, this shit isn’t even possible.  I’m told to make it happen.  I pin down the VP and get him to read them.  Further changes.  AWESOME!  Strange how you didn’t have changes for these BEFORE when you approved it.  THANK YOU!!  So I make the changes and ask translation if this is possible.  It’s not.  Yeah, I know.  SO!  I find someone else to do it.  He obviously can’t turn it around in 2 hours either, as he also has a friggin job.  So I’m told I’ll have it by lunch today.  I have an offsite meeting from 11am – 1:30pm and when I get in, all smiles because I’ve just seen 4 seconds of sunshine, I’m told the VP is looking for me and rampage yelling about why isn’t the fucking media release out yet?!

I mean really.  The closer I get to my last day, the more appealing it is to yell FUCK OFF at him and walk out of here.  Everyone’s on edge because of this big event happening next Saturday.  Everyone’s under tight deadlines and everyone’s being pulled every which way.  We’ve been planning this event for over a year, and suddenly the powers that be are paying attention to it and want changes to this and that, and biger this and smaller that, and what if we do this?  Make it happen!  Honestly, people, where were these ideas and demands 4 months ago when I could comfortably implement them without craving a cigarette?

The media releases have gone out.  The VP is in a meeting somewhere else in the building, leaving it blissfully quiet right now. 

I’m going to go make myself a cup of tea.