Banned from the Bitchfest: Pink Truth Can Bite My Ass

 I put a google alert on Tracy’s name about a year ago.  (Thanks for the idea, Me.)  It really cut down on my internet stalking time.  For those of you who don’t know what that is, anytime someone googles Tracy’s name and clicks a link I get an email message.  It’s diabolical, I know, but my whites have never been whiter.  I also went ahead and put a google alert on myself.

Here’s the weird thing.  Almost everyday at around 10 or 11 o’clock at night I get a google alert on Tracy.  On a lot of those days at around the same time, I’ll get one for myself as well.  Who the hell is googling me and Tracy almost everyday? 

What’s really sad is that when you google my name, it comes up with nothing.  Now I have it on good authority (some website somewhere) that I am the only person in the entire country with my name.  Apparently I have failed as a human since a google search turns up nothing on me.  Self promotion is not my forte.  But WHO is searching? 

Tracy wrote this article about some other guy:

http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/03/11/buzz-created-by-haters-is-still-buzz/

I wonder if she feels this way about herself?  That would be kind of sad if she thought that me, Screw U, and Dizzy were enough to cause a “buzz”.  Maybe PT Lies plus us? 

Naw.

  Here’s another fun blog to check.

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/

I haven’t been banned from this one yet, but I am white.  There’s always that.

C’mon Tracy!  WTH!  You’re giving my nothing.  Although I did like your post about self promotion.  http://www.sequence-inc.com/fraudfiles/2008/02/15/self-promotion-if-you-dont-ask-for-it-you-wont-get-it/  I remember my mammy giving me advice when I was little.  She said, “If a lawyer has commercials on T.V., they aren’t a very good, reputable lawyer.”  I assume she would include print ads.  I assume she would include accountants. 

Am I the only one that feels this aversion to professionals “branding” themselves like this?  (When I say branding, I mean wanting people to hire you based on knowing your face.  Like you are the brand they are buying.)  It’s something that politicians do.  It certainly doesn’t ellicit trust.   Here’s a great example:

I think there’s a reason that these commercials are shown predominantly during daytime court shows.  Demographics, people!  So this is the kind of reputation Tracy is building for herself.

I can’t wait for her commercial…

Tracy is revamping her Sequence website this weekend.  Because, ya know, having the same design for too long is what’s making business slow.  A new website design will surely make the money roll in from actual clients instead of waiting for checks from Wallet Pop. 

I  think I’m the only person that goes to that website on a regular basis.  Isn’t it sad?  I’M Tracy’s biggest fan!  Lovely.

Anyway, I noticed on the front page that Tracy has once again written some wonderful things about her self.  She says of herself:

“Tracy L. Coenen, CPA, MBA, CFE is a world class expert on fraud examination and financial investigations.”

World class?  Really?  If there were an Olympics for fraud investigating, Tracy would be competing?  Not only does Tracy have no problem calling herself an ”expert” without kidding in the least, now she is a ”world class expert”. 

So I checked her resume to see how she qualified as “world class”.  Tracy is a member of “International Association of Financial Crimes Investigators” which is the only international group I saw on the list.  A note about Tracy’s list of organizations: My husband gets invited to a lot of these groups for sleep medicine.  Basically you send them a check for between $60 and $300, and you’re a member.  Sometimes you get a subscription to some horribly boring magazine.  BONUS!  So I am not impressed that Tracy knows how to write a check.  Writing a check to an organization with “international” in the name certainly doesn’t make you a “world class” anything.  Maybe a world class sucker for joining.

So what else is listed on Tracy’s website that would qualify her as “world class”.  In my opinion, NOTHING anyone does gives them the right to call THEMSELVES “world class”.  How friggin tacky is that!  Tracy must think she has the charisma of Muhammad Ali.  But seriously, you guys check out her new site and tell me what you think.

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