Why Verbal Commitments are Useless

[@williamoleary9330]

Finally!!! The guys that do it and God bless them all because they’ve worked exponentially harder than everyone else, but they do it to see their names on Flo. And this is really only for the Juniors in high school.

[@WrestlingSNL]

Good Show! glad to see you al getting more views and likes!

[@lukepires747]

Is the mysterious kid who commited Mitchell?

[@matt6619]

I thought the same thing, pretty obvious in my opinion.

[@stuartward1357]

Mysterious kid needs to learn how to speak up for himself when there’s a misunderstanding

[@Imsorrybeg]

​@@stuartward1357because you had it all together at 17 shut up dork lol

[@robhughey9588]

Why does that sound like a Mesenbrink story

[@averygaming8707]

AMEN BEN

[@brianskellenger9344]

Maybe 16 is too young to commit. 18 years old might be better generally speaking, seems to be an age used for adult decisions. A good percentage of students may want to choose their college and not go to the college that the parents want or choose the major the parents want? It can be a difficult decision if you look at all of the facets. I will say this, it came down to who you wanted to be when you exited the University. If I send the same student to the Marines, Army, Navy or Coast Guard, maybe even Air Force if they like missiles then I am getting a different student back out of each program, easy to see right? Who you want to be at 16 may be the same as 18, maybe not? 🤔

[@Brian-zi5wr]

This is an amazing way of looking at it that I never considered. I joined the Marines out of HS and loved it but I have encouraged my children to go AF if they want to do military service because of what it will provide them and help them when getting out. Never even considered the same scenario for college.

[@donaldnewell4868]

Gotta say, Ben has the right take on this. To be clear, even in the professional workplace, people will get bought away from their commitments and it’s seen as normal. Before retiring, I had cases where I’d recruited people to my lab, had verbal acceptances, and then had them hired away at the last second by eg., Google or Meta (Facebook). It’s frustrating, but it’s not unethical. There are times in life where your decision will have lifelong echoes. If you made a bad decision, and it’s not too late to correct, do it. All that said, it’s usually better to keep your word. And that’s especially true if you’ll need to keep working with everyone involved.