Comments on: Fun Friday – I am a Wimp About the Unknown (a networking horror story)

By: Kelly

Kelly — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 16:49:48 +0000

Wow? I’m delightful? Who knew?

Great story. It is awkward when you aren’t sure what the real story is.

But always trust your gut. You know, if it looks like a duck, it walks like a duck, it talks like a duck…

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:07:08 +0000

Jennifer I like the story. For that matter, I have to thank Miki for linking to you. You’ve been added to my regular list of things to read!

By: Miranda

Miranda — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:07:24 +0000

Great story! I wouldn’t want to step into that again, either. But a nice person? Nice people don’t call to yell at you and then hang up on you. And then try to make nice so they can dominate you again. Hmmm…sounds like an abusive marriage…

By: Fun Friday: We’re all different

Fun Friday: We’re all different — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:13:32 +0000

[...] over at Everyday Networker was first to post, but what she described as wimpiness I see as strength—the strength to consider [...]

By: Miki

Miki — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:51:54 +0000

Not lately, Jen:)

No disrepect, but I disagree with your great-grand mother. It’s not pride talking when you share knowledge with someone else, other than the pride in having the knowledge to share (nothing wrong with that). We bloggers share our knowledge every day in an effort to “fix” people. As to whether you’re better at it than the next guy, who cares? You only offer your knowledge, what they do with it is their business.

As to the woman you described, what makes you think that she doesn’t know exactly what she’s doing? Not everyone she hooks up with will have the guts to unhook as you did, so she ends up with a stable full of free consulting and places to dump—which may be exactly why she’s out there networking in the first place.

By: Jennifer Gniadecki

Jennifer Gniadecki — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:25:46 +0000

Have I told you yet I love you Miki?

I just know if someone told me that story I would tell them to explain to them what the problem is. Someone needs to let this person know this is not how to build relationships.

But then, if I said that to my great-grandmother she would say it’s my pride talking. Pride because who am I to think I can fix other people better than someone they meet down the road?

That is why I’m torn. I want to reach out and say, “Oh…honey…no…that’s not good…” But it’s really not my place.

Thanks for the comment!!

By: Miki

Miki — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:07:48 +0000

Hmm, I wouldn’t call you a wimp for refusing to be the useEE in an abusive, one-way, relationship, I’d call you damn smart—you read the writing on the wall that a lot of people would have rationalized.

What I don’t get is why you think that makes you a wimp!