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"Be humble it's a privilege to talk to a conference so pay for your own travel and hotel and check your ego at the door". Wow. The level of bullshit here is amazing. linkedin.com/feed/update/ur…
This reminds me of some people who went from "we will sponsor your event, you will have the venue and organize a workshop for your community" to "please create a specific workshop for our community first and we will then let you the venue in 4 months"
I asked "How do you do this, do you pay workshop speakers" they explained to me that no, and usually companies like IBM pay to give a workshop. I told them we are not IBM and have nothing to sell to their community and creating a workshop just for them is a lot of work.
They told us we will have "visibility in return". Noooope. This is the one thing you should never tell me ^^
So we declined. Because going from "we will sponsor your event" to "work for free for us first and you can have the room" isn't a sponsor at all. Never work for free.
Hum, this person deleted the post. I'm wondering if I should delete the screenshots as well then, to to respect sort of a "right to be forgotten" or something?
More information apparently about what happened here, sad thing is that it's again a woman who gets into trouble 😶
An update from @BigDesign: "Based on your feedback, it is apparent that we have an out-dated travel policy. We want to improve it. Our goal with the new travel policy is to hear from fresh voices and alleviate the stress of speaker conference costs." bigdesignevents.com/2019/06/01/big…
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