Them: “Hi, Corporate Comms team here. We need you to post these company marketing posts to your LinkedIn.”
Me: “No thanks.”
Them: “It would really help our company. Please do so. It’s optional but as a senior leader it’s expected.”
Me: “I’m sorry, I didn’t realize my carefully curated and career long work to build my contact list of LinkedIn was for your marketing spam. Again, no. My LinkedIn contacts are not yours and you are not going to guilt trip me into leveraging my network for your free marketing efforts and dilute the trust and relationships I’ve built that will far outlast my time at this company. This may be hard to understand but my network is not transactional.”
Them: “Uh, are you okay?”
Me: “No thanks.”
Them: “It would really help our company. Please do so. It’s optional but as a senior leader it’s expected.”
Me: “I’m sorry, I didn’t realize my carefully curated and career long work to build my contact list of LinkedIn was for your marketing spam. Again, no. My LinkedIn contacts are not yours and you are not going to guilt trip me into leveraging my network for your free marketing efforts and dilute the trust and relationships I’ve built that will far outlast my time at this company. This may be hard to understand but my network is not transactional.”
Them: “Uh, are you okay?”
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