Oh, here's a work-related poll question: After meetings (and she's said this is what she does for interviews), she likes to send an email and a paper thank-you note. The email says a formal note will follow. Is this good practice, or overkill?
None of it means a damn thing.
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Jesse - Dec 03, 2009 3:59:43 am PST #22579 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
msbelle - Dec 03, 2009 4:07:18 am PST #22580 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I at least put on some foundation. I know my face looks ok, but I do not look like I normally look at work, not bad, just different. My eyes disappear.
I am working on day 3 of crankiness for no solid reason. It is bugging me and bringing me down and I keep trying to shake it and fake a better outward mood, but the crank is clinging.
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2009 4:35:43 am PST #22581 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
After meetings (and she's said this is what she does for interviews), she likes to send an email and a paper thank-you note. The email says a formal note will follow. Is this good practice, or overkill?
Sending paper after a meeting is tree killing, not just paper killing. I don't get it. An interview is an exceptional situation.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2009 4:37:20 am PST #22582 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do mean a fancy meeting with outside people, so more like an interview, but still.
sarameg - Dec 03, 2009 4:55:16 am PST #22583 of 30001
Seems like overkill to me.
Today was supposed to be meeting hell and they keep getting cancelled. Which would be fine, but they keep trying to reschedule for monday, and I'm out then.
ChiKat - Dec 03, 2009 4:56:24 am PST #22584 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
For me it depends. Is it a sales pitch meeting wherein you are trying to earn their business? If so, then, no. I don't think it's overkill.
Jesse - Dec 03, 2009 5:10:21 am PST #22585 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Is it a sales pitch meeting wherein you are trying to earn their business?
Kind of like that. I will try to stop rolling my eyes.
tommyrot - Dec 03, 2009 5:18:21 am PST #22586 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Bah. For some reason I woke up incredibly irritable today. It's like I feel all brittle...
Today the bus driver was 5 minutes late. Not the bus - it was sitting there at the station with the doors closed. The driver was off in the CTA equivalent of a teachers' lounge, I guess.
Anyway, it was only five minutes. But stuff like that is just irritating me terribly today....
§ ita § - Dec 03, 2009 5:18:43 am PST #22587 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If I were I meeting invitee, even to another company's meeting, there are very few instances in which I'd give extra weight to extra paper.
Vortex - Dec 03, 2009 5:18:58 am PST #22588 of 30001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
* Alternatively, I might give them a number that I had inadvertently mistyped. That might still be the rage talking, though.
I may or may not have neglected to change my home phone number when I moved. They have never had my cell number. (and they never will)
After meetings (and she's said this is what she does for interviews), she likes to send an email and a paper thank-you note. The email says a formal note will follow. Is this good practice, or overkill?
I would say overkill, but what business are you in? for something like PR, I could see it maybe. Or if the meeting is a sales pitch.