It’s quite rare but sometimes you ran into a real blunt person…
Like what happend to me recently…
Sometimes I get a lot of connect requests from LinkedIn and if I know you and I’ve met you… I’ll connect….
If not, I ask “do we know each other?” .. Sometimes I just forgot the person who is trying to connect or it was my name that showed up in a company because my (previous) employer is a customer of that company…
And then there are those recruiters, they can be very useful people but some are really blunt or have an attitude that give me some itch…
The last kind of recruiters are too cheap to pay for a subscription to LinkedIn to post open positions to you as a LinkedIn member, instead of that try to connect to you and typing the open position where they recruit for… Or they just try to connect…
So I received a request to connect to an unknown person to me, so I asked him by InMail “do we know each other” just in a polite way. This guy replied to me in such a blunt way that I’m writing this article…
I think he lacks some good nurture to be polite to people who ask a normal question.
I.m.h.o. these people shouldn’t be doing this kind of work, if you can’t communicate in a normal polite manner .
Don’t get me wrong, I have some good experiences with recruiters and I do think they are useful people… But I also have some bad experiences with recruiters, fortunately most of the time the experience is not bad…