Are you a PNM wondering what you can do to "improve your chances" at recruitment?

[honeychile]

North, South, East, or West, you should always do your best to thank the people who help you improve yourself, or have gone out of their way for you.

Which makes you a better person, which makes you a more positive, interesting PNM, which helps your chances with recruitment.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by honeychile

Which makes you a better person, which makes you a more positive, interesting PNM, which helps your chances with recruitment.

Oh come on. That is a ridiculous stretch.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

Oh come on. That is a ridiculous stretch.

I am genuinely sorry that you feel that way.

[shirley1929]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I am genuinely sorry that you feel that way.

Me too.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by honeychile

I am genuinely sorry that you feel that way.

It is flat out ridiculous to connect thank you notes with being a "better" person and then some how associating it with the success of one's recruitment.

You may believe it makes them a more polite person, shows good manners or what have you, but you're reaching really really far to claim 'better' person or that inherently they're more interesting as a PNM and have better chances at recruitment.

Unless you somehow have information on the respective results of PNMs who write thank you notes and those who don't instead of just wishful thinking.

I'm not arguing that it's not generally polite to send a thank you note, but it has jack to do with a PNM's recruitment and pretending otherwise is the only problem people have with the thread.

/and save your pity.

[AnchorAlumna]

A catfight over thank-you notes?
You people are really bored!

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

A catfight over thank-you notes?
You people are really bored!

Ah, but thank you for taking time out of your busy busy day to comment on it! I'm so glad you have more entertaining things to do with your time.

[VandalSquirrel]

The majority of women I write recs for are first generation Greek and/or first generation college students. I work very hard to give those women the advantages other women were born with or have never had to think about and try to even the playing field. I would never do anything to hurt these women in recruitment or hold anything against them for not receiving a thank you note. Not that all manners and etiquette expectations and experience are based on social class, but since a lot are it would be quite unmannerly and poor etiquette to take it out on these women without helping and educating them about the adult world they are entering.

I would also be thrilled if I never had to see another post on GC about manners and/or etiquette where it is implied the South has some monopoly, higher expectations, or exceeds any other region of the USA. I know those of you from the South aren't directly or intentionally insulting everyone else in the country, but in the end reading it over and over again is tiresome and insulting to me.

[katydidKD]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

A catfight over thank-you notes?
You people are really bored!

Pretty much everything on here is worth being bitchy about to some posters.