Jsa725 wrote:thesealocust wrote:We cross our bridges when we come to them, and leave them burning behind us - with nothing to show for our progress except the smell of smoke in our nostrils and the presumption that once, our eyes watered.
wut>? sending an email declining an interview b/c of the way this situation materialized =/= burning a bridge. it would amount to burning a bridge if the OP cannot politely do it.
i absolutely agree w/ the italics ...burning bridges is a bad thing from a career/networking/life standpoint.
...pointing out other people's mistakes is intrinsically impolite.
Also it's a quote from a play about Hamlet, because TLS needs to be more like Tumbler and less like a sounding board for law students and their law studenty world views.