I'm crying.

You think many of us get up in the morning and think, "Yeah! Today I get to
play glorified telemarketer and piss off a lot of journalists! Life is
GREAT"? Most of these pitch letters you receive that are a special kind of
stupid are from those of us who are severely wishing we were doing anything
but this (minus Suzi - I'm not touching that).

In all honesty, I agree with a lot of what you guys are saying...but think
about what in the world you want us to do about it. I'd quit the whole
bullsh*t job of pitching TODAY, if I didn't have that nasty habit of
survival constantly knawing at me. You give me a job that pays the rent AND
doesn't irritate people and I'll never ever think out-of-the-box again.

Here's my piece of advice about a subject I hate as much as (or more than)
you. You don't want to be pitched? Put that on your voice mail or in media
map. You don't want follow-up calls? Call back and say, "Sorry Charlie, your
company sucks." Or leave it on your voice mail. OR put it in media map. But
personally, I never attended Psychic University. I openly admit that I suck
at making journalists happy, and I've learned to lie and say I made some
follow-up calls when I haven't. But all that does is put a poor, young,
INNOCENT girl at risk of losing her first stupid job.

I realize you could easily rip this email apart or probably get me fired,
but I still won't take it back. It's true that some PR people are naturally
annoying morons that no one wants to talk to in real life, nevermind the
phone. But most of us are nice, regular, working people who go to happy hour
and have dogs and read your work over coffee or coke. The only difference is
that we bust our ass trying to figure out how to kiss yours. And I promise
that I hate that way more than you.

J.