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Several years ago, I stayed for 3 nights at the Courtyard Bogota Airport for a business trip.

Jan 21, 20, 9:17 am

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Relax be happy and dont think too much. New contacts around the world are always good.

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Jan 21, 20, 9:21 am

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Several years ago, I stayed for 3 nights at the Courtyard Bogota Airport for a business trip.

Today, I got an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from someone I don’t know. I’m in sales, so I typically check to see if the person is someone I might do business with in the future. The woman is from Bogota, Colombia, and the only thing I can see that we have in common is that she was a reservation agent at the Courtyard Bogota Airport from June, 2016 – July, 2017. That seems to be about the right time frame for the business trip I took to Bogota. I am a straight woman, and we didn’t hook up or anything like that. I don’t remember speaking to or meeting her at all.

This whole thing just strikes me as odd! Anyone else have a reservations or front desk agent contact you like this years later? If she kept my personal information from that stay, it’s pretty creepy! BTW, I ignored the invitation.

I think it’s more of Linkedins creepy algorithms on who it suggests to connect with and the front desk agent accidentally clicking to connect with you or wobb not understanding how Linkedin works. I’ve seen very random people in my suggestions that a former brief acquaintances that I’ve never had a professional relationship with. I’ve had two or three front desk people request to connect with me in the past from hotels I frequent. Kind of odd but whatever.

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Jan 21, 20, 9:36 am

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I have had hotel personnel attempt to connect with me on LinkedIn, but it is usually a manager or someone with whom I interacted a lot over the course of several stays. Never years later.

Jan 21, 20, 9:39 am

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It’s also a former employee of the hotel. This does raise the question of whether she took guest names and contact information with her when she quit or was fired.

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Jan 21, 20, 9:41 am

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It’s also a former employee of the hotel. This does raise the question of whether she took guest names and contact information with her when she quit or was fired.

Excellent point.

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Jan 21, 20, 9:52 am

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I think it’s more of Linkedins creepy algorithms on who it suggests to connect with and the front desk agent accidentally clicking to connect with you or not understanding how Linkedin works. I’ve seen very random people in my suggestions that a former brief acquaintances that I’ve never had a professional relationship with. I’ve had two or three front desk people request to connect with me in the past from hotels I frequent. Kind of odd but whatever.

This was my thought… not to mention if you link it to your email history it will try to connect with anyone you’ve ever sent an email to.

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Jan 21, 20, 10:04 am

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This was my thought… not to mention if you link it to your email history it will try to connect with anyone you’ve ever sent an email to.

I don’t allow any of my social media accounts access to my contacts or email accounts. I also don’t have any LinkedIn 1st or 2nd connections in common with the woman. I think she took customer information from the hotel when she left.

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There are few people I need to network with more than former hotel staff from Bogota. I vote click Accept and see what happens!

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Many social networks have a tool that scrapes your e-mail contacts and “imports” them as invitations. The most likely explanation here is this agent e-mailed you a welcome message, as many hotels do for elites; this caused your contact information to be automatically saved in their address book by their e-mail application, and then when they signed up for LinkedIn that information was matched to your profile.

This obviously isn’t a best practice, but it’s not uncommon; I’ve even gotten macro viruses e-mailed from airlines in the past that I’ve corresponded with. For an emerging market hotel, I suspect more of the CRM is done manually than you might expect, and it’s not hard to imagine an employee syncing a mobile device and then retaining that contact list when they left the position for their next role.

To avoid this sort of thing happening, I like to give my social networks alternate e-mail addresses and phone numbers so my profile can’t be correlated directly back to my real world identity. But for someone in sales, I can certainly appreciate the need to appear more visible to your clients…

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Jan 21, 20, 4:56 pm

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Was it a personal invitation or just a generic one? If it was generic this sounds much more like she activated some auto-connect feature from linkedin that searched through her emails for potential contacts. As others have noted, this generates some really odd invitations.

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Jan 21, 20, 5:28 pm

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Many social networks have a tool that scrapes your e-mail contacts and “imports” them as invitations. The most likely explanation here is this agent e-mailed you a welcome message, as many hotels do for elites; this caused your contact information to be automatically saved in their address book by their e-mail application, and then when they signed up for LinkedIn that information was matched to your profile.

As I mentioned earlier, LinkedIn doesn’t have access to my contacts or my email. So it would be impossible for that to happen. I am one of those people that sets strict privacy settings on my social media accounts. I don’t want my business contacts to get spammed because my contacts got mined. It’s not a good way to conduct business. LinkedIn frequently asks me to link my contacts with their site, and I never do.

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Was it a personal invitation or just a generic one? If it was generic this sounds much more like she activated some auto-connect feature from linkedin that searched through her emails for potential contacts. As others have noted, this generates some really odd invitations.

If she didn’t write you a personal message, I would be surprised that she would steal customer information from the hotel just to send random linkedin invites to everyone.

The only way she could have gotten my email would have been to take it from my Marriott reservation. Since she no longer works there, any work email address she might have had should have been disabled years ago. And I don’t email personal accounts for Marriott employees while staying at a hotel. BTW, I think this is really weird as well. That’s why I posted about it.

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I would guess it’s a weird linkedin algorithm, I get suggestions of people not in my immediate network often, and sometimes see people from five or ten years ago that I had a glancing passing knowledge of. I like the idea that she sent you a welcome email three years ago, and that email was used as a connection or a contact point.

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It doesnt make sense that someone stealing personal information would reach out directly to a victim – for what purpose? Most likely a bot, crawler, or some sort of algorithm using scraped data.

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I am connected to a ton of hotel workers on LinkedIn. It is nice as I keep in touch with them – when we meet at same or different property it is like a reunion I saw someone last month that I hadn’t seen since 2011 but we had been connected on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn is for professional networking and hotel stays are part of that.

My guess this was a weird algorithm thing. I opened a Facebook account a few months ago. and my 7th grade crush popped up. I hadn’t thought of her in 30 years, pre internet. it scared heck out of me how much they scrape

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In November last year I left my decently paying job where I lived to move back to the town I grew up in since my fiancee wanted to further her career since where we lived we were pretty much stuck in both of our careers. For me, it wasn’t so bad since even though I could get paid way better, I didn’t pull together pennies but for my fiancee, the difference between working where we used to live and here is huge so when she got the opportunity to pursuit a job close to the town I grew up in, we both thought it was a great idea for several reasons. Thing is, it was pretty hectic. She was informed that she was going to get the job in at the end of October but had to start working at the start of December so we had to sell our apartment and arrange the move in about a month so looking for a job was put on the backburner for now since we had more than enough to sustain ourselves for maybe a year. Anyway, we sell the apartment which was a hassle in it’s own right and moved about 16 hours away.

That was fine and dandy. As soon as we got situated I started to look for jobs. To give y’all a bit of back story, I was in IT and had been for a couple of years. I worked for one of the largest car testing companies in my country as one of two IT-Technicians keeping pretty much everything IT related running. This a company that employs about 600 to 700 people depending on demand so there was a lot to keep up but we managed pretty damn well. I would often take charge and make sure everything got done even though I was close to 20 years my co-workers junior so I knew my shit, so to speak. I have done everything from stuff like computer and phone setups, office support, graphical design and general photoshop work to hardware repair and network infrastructure. I haven’t touched programming professionally yet, but I recently applied to a web development course so I might be able to do something in the future. So I’ve done a decent amount of stuff being in my mid 20s and I’m thankful for wobb every experience.

And I knew I wouldn’t get a job by just moving and yell at the top of my lungs “Hey, I’m in IT. Give me job!” but I thought everything would be fine. I hoped I would be able to get something sustainable in at least 2 months or so. I started to apply to jobs and I got a decent amount of job interviews the first two months and I would cut it really close every time. Basically, I would get two interviews and at the second one, they would tell me it’s between me and one or two other people but they decided to go with someone else every time. It’s fine. That’s pretty much how it works. But at some point in January, people stopped replying to me. I never got a call back on anything, even though I’ve applied to over 100 jobs at this point. All I get is an automated email saying “We decided to go with someone else. Sorry!” and now it’s starting to really kill my confidence. I’m currently applying to basically every job I can but even the jobs where they’re looking for people with no experience is a no go for me.

This is creating so much anxiety for me and it’s really getting to me to the point where I’ve stopped enjoying stuff like making my small projects at home or playing my instruments and I can barely eat anymore. I feel like a failure even though I worked really hard to get where I am today.

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