While reading Cauthen’s paper, the section about “male as a
second language”, I thought of a new
aspect to my research paper that I hadn’t thought of before: I hypothesized that
with the emergence of social media (i.e. facebook, twitter, etc…) that the
rhetorical strategies of the students would change, but I didn’t consider how
the change would affect them within a professional framework. Similar to what Cauthen’s paper points out
about the legal field, there is a hierarchy that exists within the business
world and it is influenced by the way the old business world communicates and
transacts; this would be in contrast to the emerging class. – I would say that
the old business model/culture is very pointed, and that the culture being
driven by social media is lax and indirect ( this is a big claim I know!)
From my personal experience, I’ve noticed a slight conflict between
“old world” business, and emerging professionals. One example is when I went to
a client meeting and of the insurance brokers (not from my agency) showed up
the meeting a five o’clock shadow, a non-traditional “business suit”, and spoke
in a very “causal” way. When the client meeting was over, and I was on the
elevator with the client (without the
other broker in sight), the client made a snarky comment to the effect of “did that kid know he was
going to a business meeting?” Although a very brief statement, it meant a lot:
by calling the other broker a “kid”, he is calling out the other broker’s lack
of maturity, by asking the kid if the
kid knew he was going to a business meeting, it shows that the client felt he
was ill prepared.
Another quick example I can think of is when Mark Zuckerberg
was going to make Facebook’s stock public, we he was met with a lot of resistance
and opposition, and it was reported that many investors he met with felt
disrespected because he showed up to the meetings with jeans and a hooded
sweatshirt…..
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