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Your parent comment is flagged and shows no text, so I think I mistook the tone of your response. Disregard my previous comment.
by heartsucker 11y ago
Your parent comment is flagged and shows no text, so I think I mistook the tone of your response. Disregard my previous comment.
- tptacek 11y agoProbably. This whole "it's an optional event" thing is a trope. It's offered as an argument over and over again. But if you run a professional networking event, whether you call it "optional" or not has very little to do with whether people will feel compelled to attend. Asking someone's peer group to attend an optional event that pointlessly alienates them is just as bad as mandating attendance. In fact, in some ways, it's worse: at least if it's mandated, you don't endure an internal debate about whether to put up with it and attend for the career benefit.
- heartsucker 11y agoYes, that is more or less the point I was trying to make.