The basics of the situation:
I met someone on LinkedIn with a few of the same capabilities as DFW IT Dept
DFW IT Dept was dropping a client. (we couldn't afford to have our time wasted by this deadbeat anymore)
I attempted to direct them to the people I met on LinkedIn.
After letting the person know I had directed a client in their direction, a string of long inquisitive emails started pouring in.
They were grilling me on the client, and poking at our capabilities. At the end of my third response to her rather annoying and unprofessional messages, I said 'anyways, I'd rather not waste anymore time on the subject'
I was frustrated. Not only had the client wasted my time, now this person who I had attempted to give a lead was wasting my time.
I thought that was the end of the situation...
A couple days later I saw she had made a blog post. (she linked it from her linked in) When I read it I was surprised to see that I was the subject of the post on her 'professional' blog.
In all my politeness to her the only thing she managed to quote from me was 'anyways, I'd rather not waste anymore time on the subject' in her five paragraph rant. She managed to comment on a lot of things she was clueless about and stated her bad assumptions as fact.
Thankfully she didn't mention any specifics about me or DFW IT Dept. So she sort of silently burned the bridge. But WHY? Is she really that desperate for validation? She has to create these fantasies of professional superiority to soothe her wounded ego? At the end of her rant "You can be sure that we won't be exposing our clients to such a cavalier, and unprofessional attitude." Don't worry children, I'll protect you from my competitors.
My only guess is she felt dreadfully intimidated when she had a peak at our website and realized she was way out of her league, and saw an opportunity to make herself look better, while making a competitor look bad, and jumped on it. Her need to do this is based on her complete incompetence when it comes to her actual field of web design and development. Her site looks like their color pallet was named 'baby vomit' and for her layout she took a below average template and made it look worse.
It may seem like a massive waste of time, but truly I feel like I've gained insight into another dynamic of the human mind, and I'm happy with this.
ah, that's funny. Most business experts who specialize in a different field are trying to compensate for their lack of skills with that niche. I personally hate burning bridges.
ReplyDeleteYou probably really hurt her feelings when you said you didn't want to waste any more of your time. I've run into people like that before, where when it comes to wasting your time they will do it to no end without any concern. The worst part of it, if you you ask anything of them you'd be waiting a long time. Now she's just skipped ahead and said she's not helping you.
You should actually be happy she openly admits that she's not going to help you back. Most companies silently use other businesses with no intent to reciprocate.