Thursday, September 5, 2013

Smart Burns Bridges with Bloggers

Just recently Smart Social Media team sent us invitations for the re-launch of the Smart Prepaid LTE. I know they are having this event because of the issue of hoarding LTE Sims in the past weeks. We didn't know that Smart is opting to cancel the event without informing us. I just knew it the same day. It is was a terrible for me since I have to drive all the way from Alabang just to know that the event was cancelled. To save me from the hassle, just went to Greenbelt to have some coffee and write some articles.

I am really surprised but also disappointed when I knew that the event did push through. I received a call from colleague asking why am I not present in the event. I told him that I received a call the event was cancelled. I knew it, these people from Smart has a plan. The bloggers present are the ones being paid to write for them so that they can request that the write ups will be on their favor. The event pushed through but exclusive to Smart's bloggers.

I guess Smart should be professional enough to inform us or not invite us anymore if they are planning to cancel it. We are not event-hungry-asskissing-bloggers. This kind of incident is very unacceptable. We are professionals, we work for a living. We have our own day jobs. We blog for fun and for the people reading our blogs. We do not blog to earn a living.

This is not the first time that this happened. This person named Abbie Real has been calling and inviting me to these events and suddenly cancelling it or requesting to tweaks the content of my write ups. Smart is really pissing me off. She already did this a couple of times already. Such unprofessionalism shouldn't be tolerated.

I guess Smart is really desperate right now. Their former bloggers and podcasters are already getting back at them. Soon, Smart's social media team might be dissolved of the whole team will be replaced because of this mess that they are doing, or Abbie Real should be the only one to be replaced. Anyways, she's the root of all these mess.

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