Well hello dear reader-
My claim to fame is that now in my professional title I can add 'world class bitch'.
I work as a consultant on information security issues, lately focusing on privacy issues and how to secure data from unauthorized users. I am working in an organization that is very set in its ways, and so as I discover things that are not up to standards, I note them and periodically submit what our client calls a Management Memo which tells the senior management what is going on in their organization, and how we recommend they fix it. So now I hear that when I schedule a meeting with people, some of them have started to refer to me as WCB, because they are going to get in trouble for permitting things to get messed up. My co-worker (and friend) says "Welcome to the club, we all get called names at some point"...she is so sweet, I can not imagine people calling her names, but I know it happens.
My supervisor says she thinks of me as very passionate about my job, and that its natural for people to equate that to being bitchy, where if a man said the same things they would say things like 'insightful' or 'pragmatic'...So thinking about this I have to mention that on my way home the other day I was following a BMW on the freeway (bumper-to-bumper at 11 mph) and noticed her license frame on top said "Yes, I AM a Bitch..." and on the botton said " I'm just not YOURS"
I think of that now when I hear people think I am a WCB