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Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter?
theodp writes "Over at the Chicago Tribune, freelance writer Nancy Anderson makes an embarrassing confession. It's 2010 and she still has an AOL e-mail address. 'You've got to get rid of that AOL address,' her publicist sister told her five years ago. 'It's bad for your image.' Image, shmimage, Anderson thought. 'If I do good work,' she asks, 'does my e-mail address really matter?' Good question. Would an AOL e-mail address — or another 'toxic' e-mail address — influence your decision to hire someone?"
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It will be totally retro, like bell-bottoms, hip-huggers, wide ties, and beehive hair-dos.
Am I looking for a Cobol programmer or a .Net developer?
I agree.
Sincerely
iamapizza@BySendingYouThisEmailIHerebyConfirmYourAwesomeness.com
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Actually, the best example of this I've heard didn't come from an application I was processing myself. It was one my dad received, for an engineering position in his small business. The e-mail address was cokefiend@isp.com
Needless to say, the applicant didn't get the job. However, this being a small business (where people tend to worry a bit less about form and procedure), the rejection letter included the following line:
"PS. I prefer Pepsi myself"
i can go one better - an attorney client has on his business cards name@laywers.com. except that the correct domain is lawyer.com. so every time he gives out a card he takes a pen and scratches out the 's'. yeah, that looks professional.
When you recognize love in another and realize how precious it is, everything else seems so insignificant.
Probably not as much as if you had your resume hosted on geocities.
Knowledge = Power
P= W/t
t=Money
Money = Work/Knowledge so the less you know the more you make
Hey, I've actually done a comic on this subject! I'm firmly in the "I'd rather you have a cool email address then a suck-up one" camp.
dinosaur comics
something embarrassing before that @aol.com bit, like p4rtyg1rl69 or phillygansta92
TOTALLY EMBARRASING. Thus, I'd immediately 1) delete the mail from phillygangsta92 and 2) forward p4rtyg1rl69 to my personal e-mail account.
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Nobody judges me by my email address
Me too.
Truly, You have a dizzying intellect.
However, this being a small business (where people tend to worry a bit less about form and procedure), the rejection letter included the following line:
"PS. I prefer Pepsi myself"
Talking about worrying less about form and procedure.
When in college, I got a job offer which looked a lot like spam, including sentences like "an offer you can't refuse". Being the spontaneous type, I replied with a courteous: "Quit your spam, you ****sucking dope-snivelling ass*******".
I received a courteous reply back, saying it concerned a genuine job offer which ended with a "PS: we've got a big black man waiting for you in a dark closet".
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Me too.
tl;dr
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Lame addresses:
imalamer@aol.com
wtf@sex.com
dumbass67@dipshits.org
8675309@tmobile.com
urndrarrest@fbi.gov
throwingchairs@microsoft.com
cowboyneal@slashdot.org
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I really want an @compuserve.com email address. Retro-cool.
U WANT RETRO, GET BIFF@BIT.NET!
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Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
I agree.
-919192348@compuserve.com
"President@whitehouse.gov"
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Your mom does.
Hail Eris, full of mischief...
E pluribus sanguinem
*@aol.com instantly kicks in my "dumbass...." reflex,
And that was true at one time. But now it's almost like an internet antique. A retro fashion statement more than a declaration of internet arrested development.
That's our life, the big wheel of shit. - The Fat Man, Blue Tango Salvage
Excellent point. The labor market is so tight these days, workers can easily dictate their place of employment based on subtle criteria like email address prejudice.
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Me too.
beefy@upenn.edu
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
or
"President@whitehouse.com"
might get you in the door faster.
See, now that's funny, in a 1995 kind of way.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I'm sure there are, and I'm sure it works well. I don't do recruitment, but I certainly judge customers on their email addresses. Selling admittedly fairly technical products, aol address == tech support nightmare waiting to happen.
:)
Oh and don't get me started on people with the first name of 'Ignatius'. Arseholes the lot of them (well all 3 that I've dealt with in 9 years were, and that's enough of a pattern for me)
This sig all sigs devours
Newsflash, he just bought the company you work for, and he's outsourcing the IT.
You are welcome on my lawn.
I won't show up to an interview with a cravat, but I do wear a top hat and bridge coat when I walk to work in the winter. It's quite a bit of fun. I work at a CPA firm.
SIG: HUP
I prefer the following:
UUCP: {world}!ucbvax!ucscc!ucscb!aaronrp
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Wait, if that many people are in the market for jobs, maybe the labor market isn't as tight as I thought! Oh, no! I might have to take a job even if the employer is prejudiced against my chippendale97@aol.com email address!
you are a genius... I'd hire you just for that
As professional as 'rootofevil'?
Is the Alyssa Milano naked photo queue?
LoL, o yes good times...
You damn whippersnapper today just don't understand how good ya got it. In my day there was only two types of porn; ugly ass amateurs, porn magazine scans and screen captures from shitty Alyssa Milano movies. And all where in 256 colors if you where lucky. Ok so sure there were really three types but don't question your elders son. No respect having little bastards..
You can also use your webspace to inject malware and key-loggers onto potential employers computers so you're never out of the loop on whether you're getting that job!