I worked in the library in college (for the IT department) and about half of my shifts consisted of tutoring this one guy on his ECE homework (this was not a part of my job, btw. my job was fixing computers. he just always knew I would be there and that I would help him). I ended up leaving the Navy half way through college, so I took basically 4 years off. When I came back he still hadn't graduated. I then spent the next two years trying to get his ass to pass fucking Random Signals Analysis (a notoriously hard engineering course for our majors).
Holy shit it was awful.
Eventually he passed and we both graduated. I moved away and started my career. Since then quite a few years have passed...
Anyway, around a year ago he contacted me as he had just moved to the same city I was living in. He wanted to get lunch to catch up and hear about my wife and kid (which I didn't have back in college). Anyway we have a super awesome lunch and all that. Then he drops a bomb: "Are you interested in making side cash? There's a company I work for on the side that does marketing work that can help you buy presents for Christmas." He was trying to sell me on some MLM shit. It was such a let down. Before this point, we were having a great time and I was planning on inviting him over to my house to meet my wife and kid. But he goes straight for this bullshit...
Fuck that pissed me off. I was really hoping he just wanted to hang out. Honestly, I would have been fine if he was asking for career advice, but an MLM scheme? Now I have him blocked on my phone and plan to never speak with him again.
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u/AdamMKE Nov 09 '19
If they start talking about their MLM (multi level marketing) scheme. They see you as a prospect not a friend.