Resume Spamming Redux

wiredog writes "Remember this story about the guy who spammed his resume? Well, now the Washington Post is reporting that resume spamming is a trend. Enough of a trend to have generated a backlash!" Amusing fallout from an amusing story, and hopefully a lesson for others too.

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Lose 100lbs in 24 hours!!!

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

got tha fp, w00t! -a.g. at c.llc, all your base, zig!

[bow]

[Anonymous Coward]

Thank yuh verra muuuuuuuch.

It works...

[supabeast!]

Resume spamming got me both of my last two jobs when I needed them, and it gave me something to do while I was calling people about jobs and between interviews/job fairs. It may be sleazy, but at least I can pay my rent.

Re:Programmer for hire

[javacowboy]

Wow. I wouldn't mind having THAT many job offers. It would sure give me a lot of leverage when asking for a raise :)