I've been to the Glendale Tech Week and its monthly meetup event Glendale Tech on Tap.
Workshops in both events were solid. I especially liked seminars hosted by governmental agencies because they offered solid, verified advice that I could apply in my practice.
Their main event--the networking event with VC--, however, was a lame. It was nothing more than a bunch of B.S.
For Glendale Tech on Tap, again contents and guest speakers weren't bad. But the organizer screwed up on location picking because I could barely hear the presentation by guest speakers.
For the most part, the one thing I couldn't absolutely put up with was the organizer's utter unprofessionalism and lack of reliability.
Here's what happened. During one of the Glendale Tech Week events I happened to have a chat with one of the organizers from the Glendale Economic Division. After a chat, she was interested in working with me on a project. And her associate, Tamar Bezjian, followed up with me. And after some time of exchanging emails Tamar suddenly cut communication with me. I tried to following up with her but she never responded me.
This type of behavior is absolutely unacceptable. It is not only disrespectful of others. It also makes the entire interaction/communication unnecessarily unreliable.
My former boss, when he was training me, advised me to be always respectful of others and advised me to always respond to other people's messages because that's the most basic form of showing respect to someone.
It's a shame Tamar hasn't learned such a basic professional etiquette.
I know this type of "professional ghosting" is pretty common these days especially in Los Angeles but that doesn't make it acceptable. This is especially the case for government workers because their job is serving the community and they are living off of taxpayer's money. I don't know who trained Tamar but I can absolutely see that the city government has poorly trained her.
Shame on Tamar Bezjian. Shame on Glendale Tech Week. Shame on the City of Glendale. read more