Today has been one of those days where a few of my service providers failed me.
But, one, which I am not particularly prone to use, just rubbed me the wrong way, considering the tone of the day.
LinkedIn sent me this email telling me that there were a ton of folk ‘I know’ that I haven’t connected to (see below).
I work for a large company and cannot possible ‘know’ everyone. Why does LinkedIn assume that someone who worked or works at the same place as I is a colleague I want to link up with or even ‘know’? And what’s with trying to connect me with some random person who worked at a place I worked at a long time ago?
And this totally scares me. I don’t want to be an ingratiating service provider, with a hollow ‘Namaste, Charlie’ or other saccharine baloney. How does one balance the intelligence and politeness of a butler (or a puppy) without being overly courteous?
Sigh.
Need to get a refresher from Tom Armitage.
My note from LinkedIn:
People you know are not connected to you…
50 people from Nokia
41 people from Nokia Multimedia
1 person from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Thousands of professionals join LinkedIn every day, including people you’ve worked with in the past. Follow the links above to see who’s joined and get reconnected with colleagues now.
