Me: 25 invites to conflicting RSA parties.
Junior person: every party denied me entrance, and I guess I’ll have to eat at McDonald’s and NEVER BUY THEIR PRODUCTS
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@hacks4pancakes I vividly remember being outright ignored by damn near every vendor at Secure360 back when I was a student - I get that you're there to get sales leads, and thus those attendees with scannable barcodes on their badges are more likely to be of immediate value to you, but the folks at the Shavlik booth gave me a neat transforming pen and the time of day and I still remember that, nigh on a decade later.

The other attendees were great, though - just the money grubbers who sucked. Go figure.

@dave_cochran @hacks4pancakes The epitome of long term versus short term thinking. Students have their entire career of buying products ahead of them, and early impressions stick.