Comment · Sat, June 29, 2024 · ND Owner
Was not expecting this!
What they were answering
Unlikely_Incident814 · 7 points
This post seems to come from a place of frustration, but more so from a place of misunderstanding. Greg was invited last minute to listen in just in case it fit into the schedule. During that time he was traveling and this call was never planned in that capacity. To my knowledge this was the first non text phone call planned between Marwan and your staff. I was also invited to the call and I told Marwan I would try to make it late if possible to listen in. I had an emergency dentist appointment and have all the receipts.
The call was a pre planning phase between our team and yours. A first contact so to speak. There was no agenda, no plan, just a small meeting to open the discussion. In those emails there was also expressed interest in eventually discussing 1 on 1 with greg at some point in the future. Greg is not responsible for some areas of the business but if we knew the only point of the meeting was to speak with Greg then i think it would have made more sense to schedule on our original suggested date of late march when greg returned from travelling. I respect that you took time out of your day to attend. However when meetings are scheduled without confirmation, this does not imply ghosting. Again... I would have liked to been on the call but the call was not scheduled in that way.
I have also seen the email chain so this is possibly a large misunderstanding. I person…
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · ND Owner
Hey Steve. I understand that miscommunications happen. It's just both myself and my team felt it was rude. Our days are so busy with a million other projects, we just don't have time to try to pull other people into a working relationship against their will. That's what it felt like to us, whether intended or not. It felt like perhaps one person at your organization wanted us to collaborate, but everyone else was disinterested in it. The fact that nobody else from your organization attended the call, and nobody else but Marwan sent any emails, just came across as him trying to pull us all together against Greg's will. If that was not the intention, I wish someone had communicated that to us. We had no visibility into whether or not Marwan confirmed the call or communicated with you. Marwan sent the invite with all you on it. We did think it was weird that nobody else was responding to the emails, but figured maybe everyone just wanted to talk on the phone instead. Then only Marwan showed up.
Not to belabor the issue, but even in our email chain, it took me an extra few days to respond. It was Emiel going back and forth at first. When I did reply, I apologized for taking a bit more time, since I was slammed with other things. I didn't want anyone to think I was being rude. Then I said I was excited about the prospect of us working together. Neither you nor Greg acknowledged that at all, then didn't show up to the call. You can see how that looks, right? Then after we had the call with Marwan, we were still open to working together, if a little confused at the situation. Then Marwan said: "Will follow up with the team and inform them of what we discusses, and find a time for another call to make decisions moving forward." That was the last communication we had from anyone on your team. There was no followup email. There was no attempt to reschedule a call. There was never any acknowledgement from you or Greg that you had even read our emails or were even aware of the situation at all. That's when we assumed there was no interest from HTLT in collaborating with us, and we moved on to other things. What else are we supposed to think? Then this video comes out, and it insinuates that we dropped the ball, or willfully withheld information because of some ulterior motive. It's just not a good look.