Although the company blog has been shortlisted for a Golden Spider this year I will not be attending the event.
Why?
Put simply the event’s organisers appear to have serious communication issues.
To start with we had to be told by a third party that we’d actually made the shortlist.
Seemingly they contacted some of those shortlisted, but not all of them.
Why?
God only knows.
Then I got an email from one of their staff to my personal email address asking me if I would be attending or not. (We’re shortlisted for the company blog – not one of my personal ones)
At the same time a different member of their staff was in contact with our offices to offer us a ticket for the night. They then followed up shortly afterwards to say that they had two tickets for us.
Cool!
So I then proceeded to organise a “date” for the evening, letting them know that yes we’d go but that we’d confirm the second person’s name after the weekend. (Fortunately I hadn’t booked hotel rooms etc., at this stage – being a bit disorganised can pay dividends at times!)
So I’m beginning to feel vaguely warm fuzzy feelings towards Golden Spiders at this stage (I’ve criticised them quite a bit in the past)
With me so far?
It’s not particularly complicated.
So when we contacted them to confirm everything today they did an “about turn” and now say that there’s only one ticket and there had been a mistake.
I’m sorry, but that’s not good enough.
You don’t invite people to an event and then uninvite them a couple of days later.
Maybe they screwed up, but they should standover the screw up.
There is no way I am going to bother wasting my time attending an event that is that badly organised.
No way.
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