45 minutes of shame

God, I can be obnoxious. That was confirmed today when the one HR person at my table told me so to my face during my performance. They hated me, it was beautiful. I ended up with a table of almost all women. My first 'behavior' was to complain about a female CFO client I was working with who "runs her company like her personal checkbook, she has to figure out which coupons to clip before she goes to the store to buy some groceries." You can imagine how that went over, and it was all downhill from there. By the end I was reminding them in no uncertain terms that I was the money-maker at the table and that the diversity project they were working on, while important, had better show a payoff on the bottom line.
I definitely had some rough spots and made mistakes but all in all it's amazing how gratifying it can be to have a whole table full of intelligent, friendly, nice women hate my guts.