10-08-2020, 01:18 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-08-2020, 01:22 PM by danbrotherston.)
(10-08-2020, 07:47 AM)jamincan Wrote: I get pretty annoyed if I am contacted through my personal social media or email (none of which mentions my work) about work-related stuff. I try to keep a pretty firm wall between those two parts of my life, but there are the occasional holes. I'm not saying it's against the rules, or immoral or anything, but I would consider it impolite and intrusive and be pretty irritated if I was in this persons shoes. As for engaging with him as a community member; I'd be pretty skeptical about your motivation in their shoes unless they've already engaged in these subjects on twitter or invited that sort of discussion.
I can understand where you are coming from. But I don't get annoyed, I generally just ignore interactions like that, or maybe ignore is wrong, I don't respond to interactions like that, but I may still find them of interest. If I wanted to avoid such interaction, I could easily block an individual. I can see it being problematic if the engagement was repeated and unwanted, AFAIK that is not the case.
That being said, where do you draw the line? This is not a person I would hesitate against saying hello too if I saw them in public, in a non-work setting, or making short small talk comments, "nice day, cool trail, glad the city built it" type thing. Yes, it is related to their work, and that is how I know them, but I wouldn't consider such comments improper in public, would you? Is a public social media profile different?
And like I said in the previous comment, I have a big issue with the engagement in context from @citywaterloo in this case, i.e., they ignored everything I said.