I think I might be happier if there was an explicit and expected part of the process where the other person confirms they are aware of the meeting and will show up, either by emailing to say “I’ll see you at <time>!” or if they have to click “going” to the calendar invitation and I would get a notification saying “They confirmed”, and only then was it ‘officially happening’.
Yeah, even as an unabashed Calendly-lover I think these things would definitely be improvements. I’ve thought before that it seems weird that the person whose calendly it is is set to “going” by default, which means the person who booked the time will by default only know that the other person received an email, not that they saw it or plan to be there.
For this reason, when people book a slot with me, I try to always send a message like “I’ll see you at <time>!” But I think it’d be better to have a stronger norm around this, and/or have the person not be set to “going” until they actively click “going”.
(It also looks like your comment has gotten a downvote, which seems surprising to me. My small plug for calendly has turned into a much larger and spicier thread than expected.)
Yeah, even as an unabashed Calendly-lover I think these things would definitely be improvements. I’ve thought before that it seems weird that the person whose calendly it is is set to “going” by default, which means the person who booked the time will by default only know that the other person received an email, not that they saw it or plan to be there.
For this reason, when people book a slot with me, I try to always send a message like “I’ll see you at <time>!” But I think it’d be better to have a stronger norm around this, and/or have the person not be set to “going” until they actively click “going”.
(It also looks like your comment has gotten a downvote, which seems surprising to me. My small plug for calendly has turned into a much larger and spicier thread than expected.)