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Resume Spamming Creates Storage, Legal Snags
selan writes "Did you know that federal law requires companies to store a copy of every single resume they receive? This applies to emailed resumes too, regardless of whether the applicant got the company's name wrong or is applying for a job that doesn't exist at the company. Employers not in compliance risk being fined and could lose government contracts. The resulting storage problems are creating massive headaches at companies who are overwhelmed with bulk-emailed resumes. The Baltimore Sun has the story."
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Send your resumes here: careers@microsoft.com.
Bulk mailers welcome.
you can always use /dev/null for storing all the resumes - bulk or non-bulk ;)
Consensus is good, but informed dictatorship is better
I know by now I filled a few hundred hard-drives. If they would just hire me, dammit, I would stop filling their hard-drives with resumes and cover letters. Deal?
Table-ized A.I.
'We feel we have to keep everything that comes to us even if they want to be a message therapist,' she said. 'I'd rather spend my time doing productive things than fighting a regulator ... having to explain what happened to a year's worth of resumes.'"
Personally, I'd rather be spending my time as a 'message therapist.'
...our favorite resume spammer, Bernard Shiffman!
Do not read this sig.
All with names such as "I.P. Freely" and "Rod Johnson", degrees like 'PHD in Beastiality', and work experience like "1987-89: Instrumental in the success of bringing Vacuum Poo Forming(TM) to underpriveledged children.
- Buy a 100 gig hard drive
- Format it with random noise
- Give the random noise a PGP header
- If you're ever prosecuted for not keeping a copy of someone's resume, tell the prosecutor it's on this hard drive you've got, but you misplaced the encryption key.
Remember, the burden of proof is on the prosecutor. He has to prove that your noise isn't encrypted resumes.Someone named an OS for me.
I think I'll start sending out resumes for the position of "Resume Collector and Archiver - You Know You Need One(TM)". Anyone got a link to the relevant federal reglementation?
yes, we have no bananas
Send this to your various levels of government. Query them later via a freedom of information action to ensure they've kept it on file.
Trolling is a art,
1) mass mail resume
2)*ring* 'what's that? you need more disk space? you don't say...'
Geez! If they had only asked me to stop sending my resume I would've stopped... and started sending it to someone else. But no, I had to hear about it on Slashdot
http://github.com/gbook/nidb
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
This post was generated by a Cadre of Uber Monkeys for Monkey-Man2000 (603495).
Microsoft, violating federal law? I'm shocked!
...just don't forget to make your resume a 2GB PDF file.
Cheers
-b
"When the harddrive hits ~600 MB, burn it to CD, erase it, and toss the CD in a filing cabinet drawer."
What, and pay a $1 piracy-tax to Mariah Carey's retirement fund? Bargain!
I think that's entirely reasonable.
Next week, we'll find out that it's illegal to toss away any solicited material that is dropped off at or in front of your office. We'll all be forced to keep a full pile of restaurant menus at our workspaces.
They haven't even stopped yet, and we're talking about letting them resume spamming?!
oh, wait... you meant "resumé", didn't you?
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
I feel like painting my resume on the sides of a giant wooden box and shipping it to:
The SCO Group
355 South 520 West
Suite 100
Lindon, Utah 84042 USA
It might be expensive though.
I bet some people will even sign them up for free magazines and other offers delivered to their physical address.