I just wanted to see how screwed I am. I am looking to recruit for a bank and was setting up a time to meet with someone on the team, and they offered me two dates. I responded asking them to meet on a date that didn't exist (ie. calendar date didn't match the day of the week.) I immediately followed up to correct my mistake but I'm worried its shot now given attention to detail etc.
Have any of you still met with someone after they messed up like this?
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You definitely are an idiot but it all depends on them.
Most people who aren't douchebags will let it go, you didn't actually inconvenience anyone by missing a meeting or anything.
Don't be awkward and make it worse with a bunch of follow ups.
Thanks for the insight. It's even worse because I've met the lady before and she seemed to like my story/ experience so I really may have shot myself in the foot here.
The would-be-meeting is over a week away, I figured I'd just send a single follow up a few days in advance of the proposed time.
Regardless, thanks again.
- Big_Idiot_Kahuna
I cannot imagine that this would be an issue. I feel like I see someone make that mistake at least once a month (sometimes by me). Relax, it's more than likely fine. As the first poster commented, just don't make it look weird with a bunch of follow ups.
Okay, will do.
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Its fine relax
Trust—they will see that, see the updated date, and think about it for 0.5 seconds (if that) before going with the updated date. Totally understand that from your position it seems like a big deal but anyone who has been in the industry for like more than 6 months prob doesn't care about that kind of stuff. Probs just focused on the 10,000 things they needed to get done by yesterday.
Good luck with recruitment.
Not sure if this changes anything, but just to be clear, I messed up the date in an email I sent him, immediately sent him 1 follow-up correcting the date and am now waiting on them to get back to me to confirm the corrected date/time before I send a g-cal.
Regardless, thank you for the reassurance.
Gotcha - still think it's fine. I know where you're coming from and, to you this job is everything, but to them, (not to be rude) at this point you're just another thing on their plate they have to deal with. You see a mistake as massive, they prob didn't even read the whole email.
I almost guarantee the person flagged your email and planned to follow up later when they were less busy. But good lesson, I'm sure it won't happen again.
I can assure it wont happen again - easily the most stressful email thread of my damn life.
But again, I appreciate the reassurance and perspective.
You're cooked, lil bro. But I hear a career in Big 4 advisory isn't so bad.
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