
I spotted
this little item on
Eater this morning that linked to an article on
Business Insider that made me shudder a little with contempt. While
The Best Bars For Networking in New York: Tech & New Media Edition is pretty much an article that speaks directly to me (being that, [a] I'm a bar-loving New Yorker and [b] I work in tech & new media), I can't help kinda wanting to pour a pint of Guiness over the head of its author. I know people over in Brooklyn have been wetting their pants lately about a newfangled trend of
bringing babies into bars, but you know what's almost as bad as teething toddlers?
Networking douchebags! When I'm all-too-infrequently let off my leash to go pop in for a pint at one of my favorite NYC bars (two of which are regrettably listed in this article), the
last thing I want is to be subjected to a load of shop-talk by a gaggle of business card-exchanging aspirationals. If anything, I'm ducking into said establishment to
get away from those types
Moreover, I don't appreciate Business Insider alerting a nation of BlackBerry-brandishin', lingo-slingin' schmoozers about how great a bar The Scratcher is was. It's a bar. Have a beer and relax. If you want to network, stay home and play on LinkedIn. Sheesh.
Networking douchebags, and others of their ilk, need to be removed from the premises and beaten with their Blackberries. don't spoil the decorum of my favorite gin mills with your pretentious chatter.
Posted by: Outerlimitsnyc | July 23, 2010 at 08:02 PM