[quote=urbanrealtor]I have a 60 day old baby and am the proprietor of a new business in a depressed market segment (real estate).
So yes, I am pretty much always tired when I write.
All I was saying is that I think sweeping statements as to this guy’s character is an over statement.
He may very well be a jerk but clumsy and careless marketing does not convince me of that.
A few years ago, several agents in my office (back when it was a different company) put together the REPO EXPRESS TOUR (I lobbied to call it “REO Speedwagon but that was apparently taken).
We piled clients in a bus and showed them like 5 REO’s on a Sunday morning.
This was just before “deals on the bus”, and several others started.
It fell apart and really annoyed a lot of people.
I think I was the only one to ever close any deals off of that particular stunt.
The upshot was that the broker spent a lot of money, wasted a lot of time, and caused a lot of people to dislike her and the firm.
Whether or not she was a jerk is debatable but she had no ill intent other than getting bank-owned houses sold.
My point is this:
Its easy to have a tin ear as a small business owner doing one’s own marketing.
Its very easy to piss people off without meaning to.
I suspect this guy’s primary liability is just tone-deafness (that and having gone to BYU).[/quote]
But what you did was not nearly as reprehensible (actually I don’t think is was at all) as what this guy did.
Closer analogy…
Let’s say…
You are having a nice lunch with your wife minding your own business… I come up to and say “Hey dude… I saw you mackin’ down on the hot red head (meaning a mistress) Saturday night… good pull!” and walk away. Now you were out Saturday night without the wife playing basketball in the park with the boys…
What is the wife going to think? That might have been a harmless remark to the wrong person but all hell can ensue from that kind of a remark. You (not you personnally) have to think twice before doing something stupid like that.
Now for clumsy and careless… Texting while driving is clumsy and careless too but it can get someone killed.
This guy took a chance and was irresponible in pursuit of his own financial interest. Jerk qualifies.
You being an ethicist, and I mean that sincerely, would be the first guy, I would have thought, about lynching him.
P.S. I was raised Mormon… But I got better… Mormon’s have thier share of F’ing Jerks as well.
