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Usually I ignore recruiter spam, but a while back I got this one that started off with the line > I recently came across your blog (one picture of your cat had

by cwmma 10y ago

Usually I ignore recruiter spam, but a while back I got this one that started off with the line > I recently came across your blog (one picture of your cat had me dying). I'm fairly certain the recruiter did not read the whole blog post [1] because it is a eulogy for my dead cat. Normally I'm fairly calm and try to be understanding and empathetic especially for people just doing their job, but this put me in such a white hot rage. Not only did I email the recruiter back telling them off, but this was the kind of rage where you are no longer acting impulsively, but have come back around the other side to being calm and rational in your rage, so I tracked them down on google, figured out who their boss was and CC'd them on it. I felt a little bad about it, latter I've had shitty sales jobs too, but man rule 1 page 1 of bland icebreaker email openers has got to be 'make sure it's not a god damn eulogy'. 1. http://calvinmetcalf.com/post/94533627852/a-thousand-days-of-kublai http://calvinmetcalf.com/post/94533627852/a-thousand-days-of...

ben174 10y ago
Maybe I'm missing something. Why did you get angry at the recruiter for complimenting a picture of your cat? The recruiter clearly saw you have affection for your cat and was trying to be personable and pay respect to your late furry friend.
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- DashRattlesnake 10y ago
  > The recruiter clearly saw you have affection for your cat and was trying to be personable and pay respect to your late furry friend. No, I don't think the recruiter clearly saw anything. It sounds like it was sloppily added bit of personalization that anyone who wasn't carelessly hasty would have avoided. I mean, would you cold call someone for a job and casually throw in a mention of their mother's death (to be a bit more extreme)?
- eganist 10y ago
  "had me dying" is usually an expression meaning something equivalent to "rofl." So it's fine to say you found a picture of the op's now deceased cat to be amusing and adorable, but maybe don't use the word "dying" in the context of a dead cat.
- cwmma 10y ago
  It didn't really come across that way, the choice of words in particular. Also remember, I had gone to the trouble of writing a blog post about my cat dying and it was (at the time) the most recent post on my site, that should have told her that it happened recently (or it was still raw enough that I had intentionally been not posting to my blog because I thought that bumping her off the front page would somehow disrespect her memory) and they also might have guessed that the cat this might not have been a case of the cat dying of old age considering it was entitled '1000 days of Kublai'. Edit: wording
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dennisgorelik 10y ago
> figured out who their boss was and CC'd them on it The boss probably had a good laugh about that botched personalization of recruiter's message. By the way, without reading your post it is hard to figure out that your post is a eulogy for your dead cat.

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ben174 10y ago

Maybe I'm missing something. Why did you get angry at the recruiter for complimenting a picture of your cat? The recruiter clearly saw you have affection for your cat and was trying to be personable and pay respect to your late furry friend.

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DashRattlesnake 10y ago
> The recruiter clearly saw you have affection for your cat and was trying to be personable and pay respect to your late furry friend. No, I don't think the recruiter clearly saw anything. It sounds like it was sloppily added bit of personalization that anyone who wasn't carelessly hasty would have avoided. I mean, would you cold call someone for a job and casually throw in a mention of their mother's death (to be a bit more extreme)?
eganist 10y ago
"had me dying" is usually an expression meaning something equivalent to "rofl." So it's fine to say you found a picture of the op's now deceased cat to be amusing and adorable, but maybe don't use the word "dying" in the context of a dead cat.
cwmma 10y ago
It didn't really come across that way, the choice of words in particular. Also remember, I had gone to the trouble of writing a blog post about my cat dying and it was (at the time) the most recent post on my site, that should have told her that it happened recently (or it was still raw enough that I had intentionally been not posting to my blog because I thought that bumping her off the front page would somehow disrespect her memory) and they also might have guessed that the cat this might not have been a case of the cat dying of old age considering it was entitled '1000 days of Kublai'. Edit: wording
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dennisgorelik 10y ago

> figured out who their boss was and CC'd them on it The boss probably had a good laugh about that botched personalization of recruiter's message. By the way, without reading your post it is hard to figure out that your post is a eulogy for your dead cat.