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The Bitch Switch: Knowing How to Turn It on and Off

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In summation - this book stinks and is not worth one penny ($0.01 USD). If you want to read some random junk by Omarosa, and line her undeserving pocketbooks a little bit, go ahead & buy a copy. I do not recommend it.

In true Omarosa style, she writes a book where she pats herself on the back in each chapter.

I don't believe Omarosa when she says she was born tough and has been all her life. I think she, like some women, woke up to the realities of a male-dominated world and now is trying to make up for those times when she was weak and taken advantage of. In other words, she had an Awakening. I believe this because she says she grew up in the heartland of America where it is nice to be important but more important to be nice yet earlier in the book she said that she was born tough, with guts, embedded in her DNA, from being a school athlete. She should have been honest and said it was a little bit of both.

This book is poorly written, she'll make a statement and not follow it up with examples, or fails to elaborate more on important aspects of being more assertive. Like for example she says this book is a step-by-step guide but there are no steps in the book at all. The book is written as if she's talking to a friend, she jumps all over the place. I guess there's nothing wrong with talking to a friend, but it does get on your nerves when a friend makes significant statements but doesn't follow it up with examples to further clarify what she means. Also, one sentence does not follow the other. She's the queen of non sequiturs in this book. It gets on your nerves because one is never really sure of what point she is trying to make. It's like that annoying relative we all have. You know the one who doesn't know how to tell a story?

Here's a little jewel of advice: in dealing with workplace bullies, she lists "tips" mind you, not steps but tips - and this list comes from any Human Resources Department from any company. Thanks, Omarosa for giving me information that I could have gotten from the harassment section of any HR manual.

The fogging, assertive questions and refocusing examples are horrible. The Farrah Fawcett quote contradicts her Twit Bitch section. She plagiarized a portion of her book from Pamela E Butler's book Self-Assertion for Women. Omarosa probably bullied Phoenix Book, Inc. to publish this crappy book. The subject matter of this book is very important but she very poorly writes about it.

For these reasons, this book is not worth $16. Omarosa may be no literary genius but I'm also not going to pay to read the advise of a once-bitter-now-turned-bitter-bitch woman.