Perhaps "I am not currently looking for a job" will suffice? Or maybe ignore the mail? I am working with a startup and the office is in a large shopping comple

Perhaps "I am not currently looking for a job" will suffice? Or maybe ignore the mail? I am working with a startup and the office is in a large shopping complex. As a result, almost every other day you have someone coming to pitch you stuff or give you a flyer. So I was in the office one day and a person came in. One of the employees was quite dismissive. The others did not bother to look up. I picked the flyer from the person, had a quick chat and the person was on his way. The ridiculously funny thing is that we were billed to hand out flyers THAT same week for an event we were organizing. So after the "interloper" left, I asked if they would be happy if they were treated the way they treated the salesperson when we go out for our own unsolicited pitch. Of course they said no. Suffice to say, since then they have treated such people much better since then. My short story aside, if you have been identified as someone worthy to be recruited, why do a lot of people on HN find it so offensive? What is wrong is saying thanks but no thanks? I am definitely sure there was a time in your life when you would were grateful for such opportunity. Now you may have passed that level, be humble about it Of course, always remember it is a human not a machine that is going to read your reply [1] [1] http://sivers.org/real http://sivers.org/real