you need to also be able to laugh at people who try to pull that off in real life. Have had a few of those in my time, as probably most people have. Initially

you need to also be able to laugh at people who try to pull that off in real life. Have had a few of those in my time, as probably most people have. Initially I tried to be 'professional', but have learned to be more blunt as those happen. To be sure, it's happened less over the last few years, but I don't know how much of that is there's an actual shift in peoples' expectations, and how much I'm just not networking as much :)