Tag: Don’t Be That Guy

  • Don’t Be That Guy – The Cracker Barrel Conundrum

    Don’t Be That Guy – The Cracker Barrel Conundrum

    “If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. “I would like to apologize for my remarks…” – Something you will never hear us say.  Ever. Bob and I have a dream.  No, it’s not the one where you’re standing on top…

  • I can’t make it to the event but can you please forward my resume Guy

    I can’t make it to the event but can you please forward my resume Guy

    “I’d like to move us right along to a Peter Gibbons. Now we had a chance to meet this young man, and boy that’s just a straight shooter with upper management written all over him.” – Bob So let me get this straight… You don’t have a job? You need a job? Unemployment checks suck?…

  • Drunk Guy

    Drunk Guy

    So this DBTG is all about me. I am a little embarrassed about it, but I think it seriously needs to be said. I broke one of our 10 Commandments of Networking and I need to be called out on it. See, this past ITintheD, I promised myself I would take it easy. As a…

  • Don’t Be That Guy – Cousin Eddie

    Don’t Be That Guy – Cousin Eddie

    “If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. Clark: “How can they have nothing for their children?” Ellen: “Well, he’s been out of work for close to seven years.” Clark: “In seven years, he couldn’t find a job?” Ellen: “Catherine says…

  • Multi Level Marketing Guy

    Multi Level Marketing Guy

    So, you know (or at least you should…) that we have a very strict “No MLM” policy when it comes to our events.  No matter what they call themselves.  No pyramids.  No “Multi Level Marketing”.  No “network marketing systems”.  It doesn’t matter what they want to call themselves, we don’t want them there.  There are…

  • Don’t Like Change Coming to Detroit?  Get Involved.

    Don’t Like Change Coming to Detroit? Get Involved.

    “The city needs the suburbs…and, like it or not…the suburbs need the city.” – Me, almost four years ago Preface: before I even click “publish” on this one, I know people are going to get pissed off about it.  Don’t care.  Just like every Don’t Be That Guy article we’ve ever published or ever will…