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How often do you get a calendar invite from a person who you never interacted through email before and don't have in contacts vs the opposite, and actually take
by vasco 2y ago
How often do you get a calendar invite from a person who you never interacted through email before and don't have in contacts vs the opposite, and actually take the meeting?
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoI, in UK, book things on Eventbrite, they email you with a calendar invite. Same with other booking systems for events IIRC. You can probably add people to an invitation? Maybe if you can exploit such a system then people would have them in their whitelist in any case? A little adjacent to your question but relevant enough I think.
- yardstick 2y agoHR / Recruiter setting up interviews? The person doing the inviting might be different from previous calls/emails. Customer meetings I get invited to often come from someone I’ve never dealt with before, but include others who I work with who were responsible for bringing me into it.
- saghm 2y agoI think there's a pretty big gap between "people at my company are allowed to add things to my calendar" and "random stranger anywhere in the world can add things to my calendar".
- yardstick 2y agoNeither of the above examples would come from people in my company.
- saghm 2y ago"others who I work with who were responsible for bringing me into it" sounded to me like people at your company, who I assumed would be able to add you to the meetings. I guess I might have been mistaken
- yardstick 2y agoDepends on who is running the meeting. If the customer is hosting, the others I work with will provide my email to the customer so they can add me to the invite.
- ivan_gammel 2y agoThis is a regular part of the recruiting process, where you may start chatting in LinkedIn and then get an invite on your email.
- saghm 2y agoIf the recruiter doesn't ask me first (or I don't agree to a meeting), this is called "spam", and I would be happy for the system to just not allow it.
- lelandfe 2y agoOften, a coordinator sends the invite - not the recruiter.
- ivan_gammel 2y agoI have never encountered a situation where recruiter starts immediately with an invite without prior conversation (such invite also blocks the time slot of the sender - it would be stupidly ineffective to do that). It is hypothetical and improbable scenario that is not even worth mentioning here.
- saghm 2y agoOkay, so why wouldn't you be able to whitelist them ahead of time then?
- ivan_gammel 2y agoIt just doesn’t make sense to do it ahead of time in such situations. Email client could simply ask if I trust the email before processing the attachment (and some clients do that). Automated pre-processing of attachments is a general risk that doesn’t apply only to calendar.
- currency 2y agoI've received Apple Calendar invites containing Chinese characters from individuals I've never heard of. I deleted them, but just receiving them was a bit alarming.
- j16sdiz 2y agoProject manager from other team arranging a cross team meeting? Secretary office admin doing their job?
- vasco 2y agoIn-org usually has the whole domain white-listed and the whole organization would normally be auto-synced to your contacts.
- cortesoft 2y agoI recently booked a haircut that sent me a calendar invite via email after booking it. I had never interacted with that email before, but I accepted the invite.
- Ekaros 2y agoNot unrealistic as a consultant. My boss sells me to a project. Then clients might be asked to send me the meeting invite to kick things of. I might not have directly communicated with client at any point at this time.
- thephyber 2y agoIn a certain way, the Nigerian Prince con artist is a “consultant”…
- vel0city 2y agoPretty often at work. I'm often interacting with client/vendor teams or even new people at the company I work for. Probably a few times a week I'll get an invite from someone I have never exchanged an actual email with. Maybe Teams/other chat messages, maybe exchanged information with one of their colleagues, or talked over the phone.