It's the golden rule and the core of all communications etiquette: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything. On Tuesday, Kelly Blazek,
who runs the Cleveland Job Bank, learned that lesson the hard way when
her email smackdown of a young job seeker named Diana Mekota, who
contacted her through LinkedIn, went viral. "Love the sense of
entitlement in your generation. And therefore I enjoy denying your
invite," read Blazek's poison pen letter, in part. "You're welcome for
your humility lesson of the year. Don't ever reach out to senior
practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of
connections is available to you, just because you want to build your
network."
