After being handed your Business Card, you this person casually throw it away

5rtytry56 · 22-01-2017 4:31pm #1

I would post this thread in Business Café if there were such a forum, so I put it in AH instead:

The Scenario:

You meet up with this stranger about your age funnily enough where ever, on a bus or in the street but not in a pub (they don't seem drunk).

After a minutes' chat, this person asks do you have a business card - unfortunately they do not have one at this time to give you.

You give them your business card and apparently both of you go your separate ways.

A few minutes later, you see the same person throw away your business card as litter.

What do you think?

Please vote in the Poll.

22-01-2017 4:36pm

Don't give a complete stranger your business card without good reason.

Boggy Turf · 22-01-2017 4:39pm

Business Cards are so 20th Century!

clairewithani · 22-01-2017 4:41pm

Why ask for it to throw it away? That would annoy me.

Atlantic Dawn · 22-01-2017 4:43pm

I'd assume they were a competitor in the same area of business and were trying to reduce my stock of business cards.

caff · 22-01-2017 4:44pm

Did they take a photo of it on their phone first then bin the card

22-01-2017 4:44pm

clairewithani wrote: »

Why ask for it to throw it away? That would annoy me.

It does seem completely pointless, now if the OP had thrust one onto his hand and then he threw it away, then that would make sense.

fatknacker · 22-01-2017 4:46pm

It depends whether it is eggshell white with Roman lettering, pale nimbus with raised letters or does it have a watermark, perhaps?

Skylinehead · 22-01-2017 4:48pm

Pick it up and attack them with it. They bleed out from paper cuts, you walk away happily.

GritBiscuit · 22-01-2017 4:48pm

caff wrote: »

Did they take a photo of it on their phone first then bin the card

That's the first thing I thought - in this digital age, who wants a wallet/desk full of business cards. If I have need of the info, I take a photo of the card details.

Or maybe asking for your business card is just a polite way of closing the conversation under the pretence of being in touch in the future without having to go to the hassle of taking your details?

Deub · 22-01-2017 4:52pm

Before confronting her/him, you would need to check the rubbish to make sure it is your business card. Otherwise, I know which one would look like stupid.

The_Valeyard · 22-01-2017 4:55pm

Wait, I'm confused about the movie. So the cops KNEW that Internal Affairs was setting them up?

Lorelli! · 22-01-2017 4:56pm

I'd probably just think that during the conversation, they asked for the card as part of small talk but there was nothing to it.

I like number two in the poll though, approach and stare :pac:

Fleawuss · 22-01-2017 4:57pm

There is only one person so thin skinned: Trumplethinskin

I can't claim it as original!

Ted111 · 22-01-2017 5:00pm

After a minutes chat this person asks you do you have the english word 'see' in your possession. You do not. You both go your separate ways.

KERSPLAT! · 22-01-2017 5:04pm

I think you a word

5rtytry56 · 22-01-2017 5:24pm

So the best answer to such a request is

" - $hit. None on me today for that matter, .....sorry

"

afatbollix · 22-01-2017 5:27pm

There are apps out there that take a photo of the business card and turn it into a contact in your phone. He could of done this.

fineso.mom · 22-01-2017 5:41pm

5rtytry56 wrote: »

So the best answer to such a request is

" - $hit. None on me today for that matter, .....sorry "

Maybe leave out the "$hit" part. Not very professional!

Robsweezie · 22-01-2017 6:08pm

im eatin my breakfast kate.

clairewithani · 22-01-2017 6:22pm

Seen this before. What does it mean?

5rtytry56 · 23-01-2017 7:58am

fineso.mom wrote: »

Maybe leave out the "$hit" part. Not very professional!

AH forum, not Business.

EAT $HIT.

Tornaxx · 23-01-2017 8:11am

Skylinehead wrote: »

Pick it up and attack them with it. They bleed out from paper cuts, you walk away happily.

That's a bit messy, isn't it? If the paper cuts get infected, their suffering would last longer, so try to make that happen.

RWCNT · 23-01-2017 8:26am

Sounds weirdly specific but ok.

SnakePlissken · 23-01-2017 8:30am

Perhaps the grammar and syntax on your business card was so jarring, the person you gave it to was suffering a migraine trying to decipher it, so instead decided to dispose?

5rtytry56 · 23-01-2017 9:04am

5rtytry56 wrote: »

AH forum, not Business.

EAT $HIT.

I just might be that bit more honest

http://neurosciencenews.com/profanity-honesty-psychology-5944/

After being handed your Business Card, you this person casually throw it away

Your Reaction 27 votes

Comments