Harvard Business School Grads get sucked into Scams, too
I just talked to a man who is a graduate of Harvard Business School. A very smart man AND a man who has served our country with honor in several wars.
We owe a lot to men like him, but I feel saddened that I could not help him because he insisted on screaming at me instead of time to listen. He clearly still has a sharp mind, too.
I actually took time away from my family to call this man and help him for free. Yet his only motivation for talking to me seemed to be so he could scream at me. And he couldn't give me any reason for it other than perhaps because he had been ripped off by OTHER people.
The real problem is that internet culture has gone too far beyond him for him to understand and despite the fact that he's been scammed several times he still insists that he just wants something easy he can do to make $300 to $400 a week.
I did lose my temper with him – which was hard to do because I have a great deal of respect for him – but I could not get him to stop screaming at me.
The only upside is that I was able to provide information to a lady the other day that hopefully helped her to get $197.00 from one of those crazy rebate processing sites.
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10:23 pm
A Harvard degree doesn't guarantee anything but a big bill at the end. As an IT person, I'm used to folks screaming at me, for a mistake *they* made on their computers; at this point in my career, I simply refuse to accept disrespect, period. You did what you could, and that was enough. If he refused to accept the fact that he's not the smartest bulb on the tree, then that's his problem, not yours.