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Subject:RE: Reality check time From:"Douglas S. Bailey (AL)" <dbailey -at- commandalkon -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 19 Jun 2001 14:41:09 -0500
Ordinarily I'd side with you, John, but there's a question I feel must be
asked here:
What "value" is being lost (or stolen) in his not asking permission?
Referrals which have value, especially monetary value, have such via an
investment over time of personal effort and attention. Groomed
relationships which sometimes are worth thousands of dollars to the right
people are one thing, and they are generally recognizable as such.
Moreover, their inherent value cannot be stolen simply by a mass-broadcasted
email message. Groomed relationships cannot be digitized. Information has
value and as such value CAN be emailed, but the kind of value to which you
seem to be defending doesn't seem, to me at least, to be transmittable via
email.
In conclusion, John, I have to ask also: how is what you provided to your
ex-coworker any different than merely a list of names and phone numbers
pulled out of the Yellow Pages? Where was the value (which he evidently
didn't recognize) embedded in what you supplied him with? I'm not saying
there wasn't any, just that I don't see it.
--Doug
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-techwr-l-67918 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com
> [mailto:bounce-techwr-l-67918 -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com]On Behalf Of
> John Posada
> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 11:40 AM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Reality check time
>
>
> Hi, guys..I need a "second opinion" on whether I reacted wrongly to
> something.
>
> I get an email from someone who I used to work with, telling me that
> his company was relocating to NJ from NY and since he didn't want to
> work in NJ, he was now out of work. If I knew of any recruiters he
> could call, he's appreciate it.
>
> I'm currently keeping in contact with three of them (one I'm working
> through), so I sent him the three contacts. He said thanks.
>
> This was about a week ago. Last night, I get an email where I'm
> CC;d, along with about 25 other people. Attached to this email is an
> attachment with my three recruiters along with 30-40 other
> recruiters.
>
> AI sent him a very irate email that I hadn't given him permission to
> pass my contacts to a list of people that I 1) Didn't know, and 2)
> might become my competition should I need to find a replacement gig.
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