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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a coffee date. It's networking.

How have people never grabbed coffee with industry people before?

Such a bizarre take that it's now asking your boss on a date to suggest this. [/quote]
She has the job. Whatever you want to call it. Doesn’t change the fact that she should not ask her boss. [/quote]

That's not a fact. That's an opinion and best and one that many of us who are experienced professionals disagree with. [/quote]

Not who you responded to but I am an experienced professional and disagree with you. She should allowed her supervisor to initiate a meet up. [/quote]

This isn't how you advance in the world. [/quote]

Not asking one’s boss out for coffee prior to starting work date is not going to put one’s career at a standstill. [/quote]

It's the attitude behind it that's the issue, thinking that there can only be a top down flow. [/quote]

“Top down flow” is something to consider. If you think that is irrelevant, you are tremulously naive. [/quote]

Oh yes. The way to make connections and develop meaningful work relationships is to sit quietly at your desk in your basement and hope that your superior graciously requests your presence.

Keep calling me naive. I some how doubt you've advanced very far. [/quote]

I’m not the person you are responding to but if op doesn’t have her boss for coffee doesn’t mean this weird scenario you’ve dreamed up is what is occurring. Maybe in your world it is. It will be okay if she doesn’t ask her boss for coffee, I promise you. 
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And it will be ok if she does. [/quote]
And if she doesn’t, it doesn’t mean she is “sitting quietly at her desk in her basement and hope that her superior graciously requests her presence.” I assure you. 
She will be okay. You won’t, but this isn’t about you. [/quote]
Sure, maybe.

But she doesnt need to dampen her networking or entrepreneurial spirit because some other basement losers are telling her its akin to asking the boss on a date or that shes going to have her offer rescinded if she does. [/quote]

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