{"id":7935,"date":"2012-03-26T18:12:41","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=7935"},"modified":"2012-03-26T18:15:35","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T01:15:35","slug":"7935","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juliashih.com\/?p=7935","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a business trip to New Orleans. First things first, I got interviewed:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXNtjtIvLJ8&amp;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXNtjtIvLJ8&amp;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stock is rising. Our company name is out there. 2012 is going to be a breakout year. Which is good because I promised we would be a $300 million company by 2014. We have $200 million to go.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans is okay. I&#8217;m not a big drinker, so any place where people are out of their minds sloppy drunk, that&#8217;s dirty and smells bad is usually not high on\u00a0 my list. The food is good, the culture is interesting so it&#8217;s definitely worth visiting, but I can&#8217;t say that I would make it a voluntary destination of mine. However, I highly recommend the BBQ shrimp at Deannie&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>We were there for a convention for one of our biggest partners. On one hand, I like the meet and greet type scenarios because it&#8217;s where I really shine and can help get our name out there and perpetuate the brand. On the other hand, I hate skeezy men. Brian told me about the phrase, &#8220;Wheels Up, Rings Off.&#8221; Seriously, the number of men who start out with wedding bands on the first day greatly diminishes by the last day. What&#8217;s up with that?<\/p>\n<p>Last month, I&#8217;d met up with a company trying to partner with us, and their sales guy was bragging about how he used to have a girlfriend in every city while he was married, until his wife caught him with another woman on TV (at a baseball game). He ended up marrying the woman he was caught with, and he said he&#8217;s never cheated on her&#8230;until he met me.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah right.<\/p>\n<p>He even said that if he ever did mess around on his wife, he&#8217;d hope it&#8217;s an &#8220;Asian experience.&#8221; That really pissed me off. I&#8217;m not a fucking ride at Disneyland.<\/p>\n<p>The next day, I told his boss I didn&#8217;t want him to be our contact anymore, citing unprofessionalism. However, when I showed up in New Orleans, I was chagrined to find that one of our close partners had invited this guy along.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I got to meet a lot of people and being in New Orleans, we were obligated to go out every night. One of the nights, one of the guys who&#8217;s married with two young kids, got off the elevator with me and propositioned me. I don&#8217;t know&#8230;he seemed sober but it was the same old story&#8230;never met anyone like me, there was something about me&#8230;but it&#8217;s the same old story. I told him I didn&#8217;t want to be a part of bad decision-making and he shouldn&#8217;t put me in that position.<\/p>\n<p>I asked him if he&#8217;d ever cheated on his wife before and he said once, right after his first kid was born. I asked him how he felt after and he said, &#8220;Bad.&#8221; I said, &#8220;How do you think you&#8217;ll feel tomorrow morning?&#8221; &#8220;Bad,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I get it, you&#8217;re right.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He still tried to use my bathroom and I told him he could go down to the lobby.<\/p>\n<p>I ended up seeing him the next night, the closing night. He came up to me and hugged me and whispered, &#8220;Thanks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of scary to see these guys behave like this. Probably because I&#8217;m scared one day I&#8217;ll be married and have no idea what my husband hides from me. But then there are a few good ones, when everyone is drunk and wild around them, and they&#8217;re just not getting into it, and I think, there are good guys out there. But how can you tell? How do you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got back from a business trip to New Orleans. First things first, I got interviewed: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JXNtjtIvLJ8&amp; Stock is rising. Our company name is out there. 2012 is going to be a breakout year. Which is good because I promised we would be a $300 million company by 2014. 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