Anonymous Hack-Turned-Flack: 'I Absolutely Loathe Pitching'

cold callHere’s a piece from The Guardian today that will sound familiar to quite a few of our readers: a journalist-turned PR professional is slightly taken aback by the chilly reception he/she receives from former colleagues.

“I have been hung up on, told to ‘fuck off till Friday’, heard my colleagues referred to as ‘PR wankers’ and experienced a general glaze of obnoxiousness over my media relations outreach. And all in the space of a scant six months.”

Ah,

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