Some random guy messaged me on LinkedIn last week to network over coffee. Never met the guy before, he is a student at some lower-tier state school. Kid probably wants a job. I was nice enough to respond and planned to meet him tonight. Now he cancels last-minute and wants to reschedule. My gut instinct would be to ignore the idiot, but part of me wants to reschedule and just not show up. What do you guys think?
schedule an formal meeting (suit and tie) on the 9th green at 9pm
Agree to meet him, then as the first order of business ask for an apology for him cancelling earlier. When he apologizes begin laughing and tell him to call you back when he finds some cojones. Leave. Edit: Actually, not worth the time. Ask him what his favorite planet is, then tell him that yours is the sun because it’s like the king of planets.
help your fellow primate
No need to reciprocate the bad gesture – he may have a Luca Brasi that you don’t know about and you don’t want to be found sleeping with the fishes. If I were you, I’d just tell the guy that your time is valuable and unfortunately you won’t be able to fit in a meeting anymore.
numi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If I were you, I’d just tell the guy that your > time is valuable and unfortunately you won’t be > able to fit in a meeting anymore. Agreed, ask him to go watch Money Never Sleeps and report back with what he learned.
mar350 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > schedule an formal meeting (suit and tie) on the > 9th green at 9pm Ah, the old 9th green at 9 trick.
What was his excuse? I’d probably just stop responding to him. If you’re really a pr!ck you could mess with him, I don’t think I would. Good on you for being willing to meet him.
It would be pretty funny if the random guy is some AF person who we told to “cold call” and schedule “informational interviews”.
So uh, why did he contact you? I guess you’re not alums from same school.
Did he have a decent excuse for needing to reschedule? Things do come up. If the excuse is reasonable, then reschedule. If not, then don’t bother. Unless you want to build out your network too. Networking does go both ways, and people do remember who helped them at an early stage.
He may have a legit excuse (death in the family or some real emergency) so I would give him a chance to at least explain himself before writing him off. If it was some pissy excuse (lost his keys, traffic etc.), then I wouldn’t bother meeting him again. He had his chance.
Everyone here is so cynical. If you are wasting time posting on this message board, your time isn’t so valuable that you can’t do a good deed for someone who needs it. It was stupid of him to reschedule, but acting the jerk because of it just makes you look even dumber, IMO.
Watch your tone sloop-a-loop…
99 cannon sloop Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Everyone here is so cynical. > > If you are wasting time posting on this message > board, your time isn’t so valuable that you can’t > do a good deed for someone who needs it. > > It was stupid of him to reschedule, but acting the > jerk because of it just makes you look even > dumber, IMO. +1. What makes the OP so special? They both went to the same sh!tty state school and he wants to know what it takes to become Andy Pettite although he probably shouldve picked a better role model.
^ LOL.
yup help a fellow sapiens out !
yup help your fellow solar system member out
The dude probably found Andy Pettite’s posts on AF and canceled once he discovered what a dbag he is.
I didn’t go to his school, but ANDYPETTITTEISGREAT.