> For example, in one case I offered to do someone I knew a favor
> in passing his resume to a contact I had at a place he was interested in.=
 =A0I
> asked him to forward me his resume so I could forward it to the manager w=
ith
> a nice introduction and recommendation attached. =A0What he sent me was p=
lain
> text crap formatted to oblivion. =A0Now I had four choices:
>
> =A01 - Send it on as is.
> =A02 - Fix the formatting myself and pass it on as intended.
> =A03 - Tell my friend his resume was a mess and he needs to send me a
> =A0 =A0 =A0cleaned up copy before I'll forward it.
> =A04 - Silently do nothing.

> I chose #4.

> #1 would have made me look bad because I would have been
> endorsing the mess. =A0No thanks. =A0#2 would have been considerable work=
, and I
> didn't feel it was my job. =A0#3 could have created bad blood "what do yo=
u
> mean my resume sucks?". =A0#4 was just easier, and I felt a lot less obli=
gated
> to help when I saw the mess that got dumped on me. =A0I never told the gu=
y.

That's an immensely interesting and possibly useful offering.

You have supplied in very compact form a real world personal "case
study", 4 perceived options, what you perceived the 'costs' and
benefits to be in each case and what you chose and why.

It MAY be useful to people as a guide to how to interact with you, or
not, as the case may be.
That' NOT a comment on the merit of your choice (I'll carefully
refrain from that :-) ).


  Russell

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