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I hate communicating with humans sometimes.
I just had an email from a bloke I don't particularly like...
(Bit of backstory :- I once interviewed him for a job as a subordinate to me on my team, but he couldn't conduct the interview at all without being fixated on the assumption that he would be my boss and running the team. It was a very odd experience and even though I kept gently correcting him he would say stuff like "Right, yes, of course I understand you are the boss, but my point was that this will be very a successful working relationship as long as you do what I tell you and always deliver good standards of work to my deadline"... "errr, no... I'll be in charge and you'll be doing that for me" "Yes, of course, certainly, I understand that... but I do have very high standards and I will be reviewing your progress weekly and I expect you to deliver above and beyond". There was a slight language barrier that confused things, and I assumed at the time he was nervously trying to make a good, competent, confident impression on me. In terms of his work and his experience he was the best candidate of all, but I simply couldn't get him to bend the knee so in the end I said to him "I'd like to give you the job but I think you are going to struggle to be positioned under me and will very quickly get frustrated by that and seek greater status in the company". After which he began shamelessly begging me for the job for weeks afterwards, even long after the job had gone and I was working my own resignation notice period. Anyway, he ended up self-employed doing the same thing as me, so I have avoided him ever since).
Out of the blue just now, after maybe two years, he got in touch by email and said "Long time no speak. I may need you for the next ten days. I have a project on and need some support. Please send me your day rate." and then he said "Also, I just tried to look you up on LinkedIn and your profile seems to have disappeared, which is very strange and peculiar indeed, why has it gone?"
So I wrote back and said "I don't do white label work, I only work directly with clients. You need a freelancer." and then I felt I ought to offer him an explanation because I have blocked him and about 6 other people from seeing my profile.... "My LinkedIn profile is hidden because I use it to focus on client communications and promotions not social networking. One of my competitors was approaching clients of mine each time I included them on LinkedIn any updates, so I decided to limit access to my profile for a while".
Which is true. Another bloke, who is a bit of a halfwit and well known for his rather poor attempts at poaching work off people (ref: Mr ,thats the point! for those here that know of him) was contacting all of my clients every time I mentioned them or connected with them on LinkedIn.
So then MrBoss writes back and says "Wow, that sounds really extreme. I've never heard of anything so crazy as that. Are you sure you aren't being paranoid? It's perfectly reasonable for your clients to want to try and work with other people you know. You can't expect to stop them".
Which really makes me just want to give up living amongst humans and just become a hermit on a mountainside somewhere. I was merely explaining, dispassionately, why he can't see my LinkedIn profile. No drama, no paranoia... just a polite reason to cover my decision to exclude him and about 6 other people out of potentially millions from seeing my LinkedIn profile.
But suddenly I'm being dramatic, extreme and paranoid.
I really dislike humans.
- http://www.traveland…Gnash
- I thought ",thats the point!" was a junior? he tried to poach your clients? f'lol, kids, eh?. MrBoss sounds like he's still trying to boss you.detritus
- wants work from you, then calls you "crazy," "paranoid" and "unreasonable" all in a single sentencemonospaced
- Mr ,point! was a junior. When he left the company he called up all our clients and introduced himself as the head of the department...Muncher
- ... a department in a company he no longer worked for. Nobody can quite work out what his gambit was, but he was hoping to get work by pretending to be us.Muncher
- (He's very dense)Muncher
- Mr Boss... yes to both notes. He's afflicted by something beyond a mere complex. He's trapped inside a self-perception of superiority it seems.Muncher
- They're called vampires. Luckily for you he's not that smooth of one._salisae_