Would it be weird to ask future boss to grab coffee before start date?

[Anonymous]

I'd wait until after you've started and have a rapport with this person. Then I think suggesting you meet for a business lunch or coffee would be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will do you one better. My new job had an all hands meeting two weeks before my start date. I not only went, they paid my transportation and hotel and went out to drinks and dinner my new boss.

I don't personally think either is weird, but they are diferent - the 1:1 coffee of the new employee reaching out, versus (presumably )the boss reaching out to invite you to a relatively uncommon event / op to meet everyone

[Anonymous]

This whole thread is so odd to me. I for one wouldn’t take a job, even 100% remote, without meeting anyone in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a man. I've done this. And further, I've met my future subordinates for coffee prior to landing so I could hit the ground running. In both cases - upward and downward - the meetings paid dividends.

It's baffling to me all of the people pushing back on this.

Subordinates being the key word.

Did you not read what they wrote? PP said they've done it both ways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I will do you one better. My new job had an all hands meeting two weeks before my start date. I not only went, they paid my transportation and hotel and went out to drinks and dinner my new boss.

This is not even remotely the same as what this is about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so odd to me. I for one wouldn’t take a job, even 100% remote, without meeting anyone in person.

Well, it was offered to her all remote so…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My bosses would be 100% fine with this!

I do think you should wait until you start, but otherwise, grabbing coffee with workmates or using it as networking is totally normal. I feel like there are a lot of people on here without real jobs?

You contradict yourself. First you say your boss would be fine with it but then recommend op to wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so odd to me. I for one wouldn’t take a job, even 100% remote, without meeting anyone in person.

Do you think they are just fake internet people otherwise?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:baffled by the quick and blunt "no" chorus.

Think about what kind of person spends all day trolling web forums, and how that person feels about face to face human contact.

The idea that a boss would be opposed to having a face to face conversation with a future employee, and more, be offended by the invitation, to the point of rescinding the offer of employment, is insane.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is so odd to me. I for one wouldn’t take a job, even 100% remote, without meeting anyone in person.

Do you think they are just fake internet people otherwise?

It is a common identity theft / banking fraud scam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:baffled by the quick and blunt "no" chorus.

It’s the only right answer which is why it’s quick and blunt.

No, it's not. Apparently no one remembers work life in 2019.

Because the op’s job environment is not like work life in 2019. Thank you for inadvertently agreeing that no is the right answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My bosses would be 100% fine with this!

I do think you should wait until you start, but otherwise, grabbing coffee with workmates or using it as networking is totally normal. I feel like there are a lot of people on here without real jobs?

You contradict yourself. First you say your boss would be fine with it but then recommend op to wait.

PP thinks that OP probably doesn't work at PP's company.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:baffled by the quick and blunt "no" chorus.

Think about what kind of person spends all day trolling web forums, and how that person feels about face to face human contact.

The idea that a boss would be opposed to having a face to face conversation with a future employee, and more, be offended by the invitation, to the point of rescinding the offer of employment, is insane.

Who said that her boss would rescind the offer of employment. No one said that.

[Anonymous]

Why was the job hiring on a 2 month delay? Who chose that delay?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:baffled by the quick and blunt "no" chorus.

+1

C Suite reporting that this is not the slightest bit weird, but the paranoid responses here absolutely are.