On Thu, Oct 10, 2024 at 10:58 AM Shrabonti Bagchi via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote:
Don't understand the objection to it. Is it profiling? Yes possibly, but so > is every other marker like name, race, location, age etc. > My (comparatively mild) objection to this is not because it is 'profiling' but because it greatly increases the odds of a conversational dead end. > Like every other conversational opener it can lead to more interesting > topics or not -- depending on the conversationalists. > See above - my experience in meeting people (and connecting people) across multiple backgrounds is that people tend to clam up after reciting their job title. Yes, not all people, but why would one deliberately use one's time in a non-optimal way? > Pardon me if I can't be bothered to be interesting before I know if it's > going to be worth my time 😂 > QED. You know what they say about an eye for an eye. :) Udhay
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