Banker rates dates in a spreadsheet then shares...
May 9, 2012 1:35:29 GMT -5
Post by PrisonerOfHope on May 9, 2012 1:35:29 GMT -5
What an idiot.... 
Banker rates dates in a spreadsheet -- then shares the file with one of them
By DAVID K. LI and JEANE MACINTOSH
Last Updated: 2:17 PM, April 19, 2012
A data-driven investment banker kept a detailed spreadsheet of 12 women he was chasing — coldly ranking their appearance on a scale of 1 to 10 — only to see his master plan backfire when he foolishly sent the file to one of them.
The spreadsheet shows the meticulous records that David Merkur, 28, kept on each of the girls — eight of whom he met on Match.com and four he’d met through friends and family — and a column for their profile photos.
After one date in February, he noted under the “Initial Date Comments” category: “very jappy; one and done for me.”
Other missives included, “Drunkenly hooked up after J****’s birthday party at K-Town karaoke,” and “Conversation still on- going.”
None of the ladies scores lower than 7 in the appearance category.
For one date named Liliana, who scored a 9.5, Merkur wrote, “Looks beautiful; from coastal Romania; Chanel make-up artist.”
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But after a few conversations and Facebook chats, Merkur noted that her old boyfriend “might be back in the picture.”
He made himself another note to call her after she returned from an April trip to Florida.
For his Match.com ladies, he kept meticulous text- message records under “dates of message communication,” documenting when he sent a message and when he received one.
The spreadsheet was even color-coded: blue to indicate “upcoming” dates, orange means “monitor closely,” and then there was “(Bold=ASAP).’’
For the girls he was less interested in, a dull yellow was for “monitor casually.”
His system was exposed after an April 4 date at the Rose Bar with a 26-year-old brunette stunner named Arielle.
Over drinks, Merkur told her about his spreadsheet.
Arielle asked to see it — and he e-mailed it to her.
“Well . . . this could be a mistake, but what the hell,” Merkur wrote.
“I thought about deleting the names, but figured I might as well give you the whole thing. I only deleted the non-Match people’s names (at the bottom) since some I’ve known for a long time.”
“I hope this e-mail doesn’t backfire, because I really had a great time and hope to hang again soon
,” he added. “However, I will keep my word! Have a great weekend!”
On April 9, Arielle — whom Merkur described in his spreadsheet as “very pretty, sweet & down to earth” with a “great personality” — e-mailed it to her friends with the note:
“Wanted to pass this on to you for some monday morning entertainment. I went on a date with this guy last wednesday. On the date, he tells me that he has a spreadsheet for tracking all of the people from Match that are ‘in process.’ Naturally, I tease him and ask him to send me the spreadsheet.
She added, “For some strange reason, he actually does. See below/attached. Just when I thought I had seen it all . . .”
Soon after, the spreadsheet went viral on the Web.
Merkur, an associate director in capital markets for real-estate finance firm Ladder Capital, told The Post last night that he was sorry for making the crass document.
“I sincerely regret my serious lapse in judgment in this matter and apologize to everyone,” he said.
“I am deeply remorseful. Suffice it to say, I will never do anything like this again.”
He earlier told Jezebel.com that he found his handiwork “wacky and quirky and kind of funny.”
Merkur argued that his busy job prevents him from remembering the mundane details of his nights out.
“I work with spreadsheets a lot. I work long days . . . go out on a couple of midweek dates . . . how am I going to remember them? I’m not. So I made the spreadsheets,” he told Jezebel.com.
Merkur told Jezebel that he sent Arielle the spreadsheet because “she works with spreadsheets a lot, too” and she “seemed like a very sweet girl.”
“I won’t be using Match.com ever again,” he said.
“I screwed some people, and I screwed myself.”
Arielle, a Long Island native, couldn’t be reached.
The compilation shows that Merkur was e-mailing, texting and dating several women at the same time in late March and early April.
Some dates clearly didn’t rate as high as Arielle.
Cortney, a 24-year-old Chicago native, got a 7.5 in looks but lost points after she blew off a scheduled date.
“Stood me up: said 4/2 that she was at hospital with friend; might revisit,” Merkur wrote.
Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cyber_cad_dater_input_LGdBZ57ATtIGWwCqffATXM#ixzz1uLrmGJAh
Banker rates dates in a spreadsheet -- then shares the file with one of them
By DAVID K. LI and JEANE MACINTOSH
Last Updated: 2:17 PM, April 19, 2012
A data-driven investment banker kept a detailed spreadsheet of 12 women he was chasing — coldly ranking their appearance on a scale of 1 to 10 — only to see his master plan backfire when he foolishly sent the file to one of them.
The spreadsheet shows the meticulous records that David Merkur, 28, kept on each of the girls — eight of whom he met on Match.com and four he’d met through friends and family — and a column for their profile photos.
After one date in February, he noted under the “Initial Date Comments” category: “very jappy; one and done for me.”
Other missives included, “Drunkenly hooked up after J****’s birthday party at K-Town karaoke,” and “Conversation still on- going.”
None of the ladies scores lower than 7 in the appearance category.
For one date named Liliana, who scored a 9.5, Merkur wrote, “Looks beautiful; from coastal Romania; Chanel make-up artist.”
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But after a few conversations and Facebook chats, Merkur noted that her old boyfriend “might be back in the picture.”
He made himself another note to call her after she returned from an April trip to Florida.
For his Match.com ladies, he kept meticulous text- message records under “dates of message communication,” documenting when he sent a message and when he received one.
The spreadsheet was even color-coded: blue to indicate “upcoming” dates, orange means “monitor closely,” and then there was “(Bold=ASAP).’’
For the girls he was less interested in, a dull yellow was for “monitor casually.”
His system was exposed after an April 4 date at the Rose Bar with a 26-year-old brunette stunner named Arielle.
Over drinks, Merkur told her about his spreadsheet.
Arielle asked to see it — and he e-mailed it to her.
“Well . . . this could be a mistake, but what the hell,” Merkur wrote.
“I thought about deleting the names, but figured I might as well give you the whole thing. I only deleted the non-Match people’s names (at the bottom) since some I’ve known for a long time.”
“I hope this e-mail doesn’t backfire, because I really had a great time and hope to hang again soon
,” he added. “However, I will keep my word! Have a great weekend!”On April 9, Arielle — whom Merkur described in his spreadsheet as “very pretty, sweet & down to earth” with a “great personality” — e-mailed it to her friends with the note:
“Wanted to pass this on to you for some monday morning entertainment. I went on a date with this guy last wednesday. On the date, he tells me that he has a spreadsheet for tracking all of the people from Match that are ‘in process.’ Naturally, I tease him and ask him to send me the spreadsheet.
She added, “For some strange reason, he actually does. See below/attached. Just when I thought I had seen it all . . .”
Soon after, the spreadsheet went viral on the Web.
Merkur, an associate director in capital markets for real-estate finance firm Ladder Capital, told The Post last night that he was sorry for making the crass document.
“I sincerely regret my serious lapse in judgment in this matter and apologize to everyone,” he said.
“I am deeply remorseful. Suffice it to say, I will never do anything like this again.”
He earlier told Jezebel.com that he found his handiwork “wacky and quirky and kind of funny.”
Merkur argued that his busy job prevents him from remembering the mundane details of his nights out.
“I work with spreadsheets a lot. I work long days . . . go out on a couple of midweek dates . . . how am I going to remember them? I’m not. So I made the spreadsheets,” he told Jezebel.com.
Merkur told Jezebel that he sent Arielle the spreadsheet because “she works with spreadsheets a lot, too” and she “seemed like a very sweet girl.”
“I won’t be using Match.com ever again,” he said.
“I screwed some people, and I screwed myself.”
Arielle, a Long Island native, couldn’t be reached.
The compilation shows that Merkur was e-mailing, texting and dating several women at the same time in late March and early April.
Some dates clearly didn’t rate as high as Arielle.
Cortney, a 24-year-old Chicago native, got a 7.5 in looks but lost points after she blew off a scheduled date.
“Stood me up: said 4/2 that she was at hospital with friend; might revisit,” Merkur wrote.
Read more: www.nypost.com/p/news/local/cyber_cad_dater_input_LGdBZ57ATtIGWwCqffATXM#ixzz1uLrmGJAh
