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Am I the only one who doesn't find that job inquiry via text not that bad?

There's no text or AOL-speak. In fact, it's worded better than most emails I receive at work. The author and the college kid have what seems like a pretty informal relationship. It's not like he's texting back some HR person he's never met!

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Especially since the text sums up to 'Hey, when can we meet to discuss this'. I might be another silly couple-years-post-college kid, but there's nothing wrong with that text to me.

What I find grating about it is that it's worded like he thinks he's a hot commodity and is expecting Vance to woo him. And telling him what your rent is going to cost... wow.

Maybe wow, or maybe "I respect you, and don't want to waste your time. I'm grateful for the opportunity. But, this is my rent and I must make that much. So, if this drudgework that you're finding isn't paying that much please don't waste any more of your time."

I don't see why a text asking for a phone call/meeting would be inappropriate. The huge message seems poorly suited to the medium.

Concur. I abhor using the phone for things like this and appreciate greatly someone emailing/texting. If things go well and we need to chat on the phone, we can schedule at that point.

I don't think it was bad at all, especially considering the relationship the two of them had.

Actually, I could imagine reading that article with some-old-correspondence-method (telephone) and some-even-older-correspondence-method (physical mail) replacing texting and telephoning/emailing, and could imagine someone from 50 or so years ago saying the exact same thing.

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