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Since It's Dead In Here I'll Share Some Drama
There is a girl T used to work with that also blogs, has a DD and posts on my local boards. Over the summer I noticed several very familiar posts on her blog. I chalked it up to us blogging about similar topics blah, blah, blah. Fast forward to September she did a series of posts about cloth diapers and literally stole the title, little jokes and a spreadsheet out of my cloth diaper blog posts and passed it off as her own. She then stole information from other posts of mine and passed it off as her own...one of them was even syndicated by BlogHer.
All of my blogging mentors told me to be the better and bigger person and ignore it so I did. Today someone posted on my local Bump board looking for a last minute photographer to do Christmas photos. I PM'd her because of the iffy rules about solicitation. I kept thinking her SN sounded familiar but brushed it off. The person asked for a sample photo after telling me she couldn't access my photography FB page. (I just realized she couldn't access it because she was at work and it was blocked.) I send her a sample and she then proceeds to tear it apart.
At this point I knew something was fishy. Not many people would have even responded after not liking someone's work. Between the tone and language in the response and the familiar SN I knew it was this girl. KC was able to point me to some of this AE's other posts which contained enough information to confirm it was in fact my thief/Tim's co-worker.
I just sent her a rather lengthy email presenting her with all the information, informing her that my work is copyrighted and that she could either credited me at the beginning of each post or delete them. I also told her I wasn't sure if I would reach out to BlogHer and let them know that she had plagiarized my posts in her syndicated post.
I ended it with this gem: Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} My only suggestion to you would be to take the title of your blog post literally and grow up. Cheating, lying, stealing and bullying are terrible examples to set for your daughter.
I also reported her and the AE to the Bump/Nest Gods but who knows if that's even helpful these days.
Re: Since It's Dead In Here I'll Share Some Drama
ETA: I don't know what to say, other than, WTeverlovingF?
She just emailed me back with a general "I have no idea what you're talking about but I'll gladly credit you on my blog".
:::Yawn:::
Right.
I see she's using the shitty fake apology card. She now reminds me of large jerkface corporations *cough*Paypal*cough* who issue that kind of apology.
Maybe it's time a proper cease and desist.
Done.
Thanks.
I'm tempted to reply:
"So if this isn't you than it's just a crazy coincidence that this person's mother lives out of state, has a dog who (and I quote) 'is so spoiled he thinks he's a human' (sounds just like Oscar) and has a sister-in-law who had twins. What ARE the odds?"
Nice. You should punch her.
And it does help. Kathleen is actually pretty darn helpful (my SN change took her all of 5 minutes and that's because she had to open the e-mail). There's a regular "troll" on the Bump that gets banned constantly, so they are around.
I would just so I could see her squirm.
Haha! You're evil. I think I will...right before bed.
Oh wow! What the eff. She's creepy. Her fake apology is stupid since she says she'll credit you but denies it.
:-/
Is your husband freaked out by her as well?
No we're both just extremely annoyed and over this sh*t. She's not crazy like axe murderer she's just a very insecure and unhappy person.
Do it! Do it!
What a nutcase.
I did and she replied around 6 this morning still playing dumb but wrote "I wish it were me but I don't have time to mess with you."
WHAT?? That doesn't even make sense.
Seriously WTF?!? What a huge b!tch thing to say. That is admitting that even if she didn't do it, that she would like to.
Yep. She is crazy cakes.
Totally Agree!