MD alumns are douches
So I cold-emailed a MD of a pretty good boutique and he is an alumn as well. He responds to my very general email with a link to doostang....mad douche
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Post the cold email, so we can determine if his response was of merit.
well considering you spelled alum wrong in your thread, i can only imagine the mistakes you made in your cold email.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alumnus
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alumnus[/quote]
Nice try, but you're obviously an idiot as well.
Haha, that's actually funny.
I found this hilarious in the "tragedy is when I cut my finger, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die" kind of way, but it is pretty douchey not to at least offer some platitudes or kind words or something.
He was probally listening to this
[quote=blackfinancier]He was probally listening to this
]I like this song. I usually play this after we win a mandate following a bake-off.
Agreed, biggest douches tend to be alums in higher up places (if you've come from a target.) They seem to get a kick off of the superiority they hold over you being everything you are except better and wealthier. It's much better just to cold call or cold email MD's who have no relation to you as they might be in a helping mood and say "maybe I'll take a look at this kid." All other alums, but once they hit a certain level of succes, they become extreme douches towards their fellow alums.
I don't go to a target, but I've had quite the opposite experience. The MDs or lower level guys from no-name boutiques or MMs tend to be the assholes who don't let you forget how brilliant they think they are. I had one guy who worked at a no name boutique in a shitty midwestern town tell me that ibanking is on the same level as MLB or NFL, and that my 3.3 GPA was too low to cut it. Go fuck yourself dude. You're not on the same level as a pro athlete.....you're with a no name boutique in the shittiest city this side of Detroit.
On the other hand, the alumni like the guy I met who was an MD and partner at Goldman was down to earth and really cool. In addition, he had a much less prestigious academic background (the asshole alumnus had a JD from a top law school, a Harvard MBA, graduated undergrad Magna Cum Laude and knew multiple languages).
Just goes to show you how far people skills (or lack there of) will take you.
Wow! I don't know if it's a difference between targets and nontargets or just our unique experiences in dealing with alums. Funny how it's the exact opposite. I will say that the first guy you mentioned sounds like easily the biggest douche on this continent. You should have told him off or something, he's not worth it. I can't say I've had experience with that level of doucheness from any alums.
common at least that's pretty funny
most people just don't reply, period.
Prospective: Dear blah blah blah, [add 20 more lines] thakns for your time blah blah.
MD:
doostang
yeah pretty much thats how it went....lol i dont even go to a target school ...but i got a pretty good laugh at it....he actually sent me a link to doostang...www.doostang.com lol
wow, the link is a really, really cold thing to do.... that guy must really be a whore.
does it really matter how i spelled it ? I was just finishing..I didnt think a forum would criticize my spelling/abbreviations...damn
I wasn't about you; I just wanted to be right.
no it doesn't matter how you spell things. people just make a comment if they 1) have nothing better to say to crit your question/argument 2) are bored (ie, who spells Rothschild wrong twice in the same post: rotechild and rotschild? lol this isnt hit and miss)
so ignore that shit
just don't do this shit elsewhere. i personally know someone wrote to Ernst and addressed cover letter KPMG. proof-read winner.
Perhaps you should notify him of your sentiment about his douchebaggery ways, maybe he'll then extend an offer learning you have balls and/or moxy?
Eh, too big a chance that he will pass the email around to his friends who could be highly placed somewhere you want to get a job.
And come on man, you've gotten one of these out of how many sent out? We all know there are some douchebags working in finance, you don't have to give a shit about them, just keep truckin.
I once asked a professor for help with networking/job hunting. He referred me to Monster.com. This was in person. True story.
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