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[angstbunny]

There is absolutely no excuse on god's green earth why anyone could not obtain a professional email address. Hotmail, Yahoo, Gmail. That's three off the top of my head. You should not be using your friends' email address nor your parents' email address. We're not hiring 13 year olds who require parental supervision when accessing the internet. Yes

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[moirariordan]

OR, misspelling things. Or not including a greeting/salutation. Or basically writing an email like you're a seventh grader secretly emailing your friends during study hall. FOR THOSE THINGS, I WILL JUDGE YOU AND IGNORE YOUR REQUEST, KTHANKS.

/rant

[angstbunny]

My standards are pretty low, since our posting is always min wage entry level service, but word to misspelling. I've trashed plenty of job seeking emails based on that. I'm actually semi-okay with just an attached resume, but I'm definitely a lot more impressed if there is a good cover letter or introductory email.

[moirariordan]

Well, you'd think mine would be even lower, being in college for the last four years. But really, college students have more reason than anyone else to be totally professional all the time. Especially when they're communicating with professors, or say, TAs. Sending me a two line email that says, "hey will u look at this, thanks" with your six-page essay attached, two days before it's due - not impressive.

[angstbunny]

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Anti-impressed.

[idleleaves]

Um, AMEN. Seriously. With all the free e-mail services out there, there is no reason why someone cannot have one that does not look like something a teenager would use. I don't understand how people can think that professional communication with their personal, ridiculous-handle e-mail address is anything short of entirely inappropriate.

[angstbunny]

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITE?

It frustrates me so much, because it indicates what absolute lack of sense this person has. It's right up there with my previous rant about dumbasses who drop their resumes off during lunch rush. It's like... seriously? REALLY?

Or, oh oh, non-weird email addresses, but stupid name fields. So even if your email address is firstnamelastname@whatever.com, but it shows up as ~~**BRANDY**~~ in the name field, I will also judge and judge harshly.

[idleleaves]

*FACEDESK* Oh god, I know. I mean, you'd think that common sense would mean that you would try to figure out a time to drop off a resume when management is there (so you can actually introduce yourself or at least show your face) yet they're not swamped. And if you go in and the place is swamped, then logic would dictate you, IDK, come back later. Oi.

LOL @ the stupid name fields. Yeah. Please to not be using all the stupid little lines of ~*~*~*~*~ or whatever else in your freaking name. Unless it is on your birth certificate, and if it is, well, you may have a whole other set of problems.

[angstbunny]

It's dumb on nine different levels, that's for sure. Not only are you making a poor first impression, by being idiot enough to show up during rush time, but the likelihood of that resume handed to a harried server being in turn handed to me who's doing the hiring is pretty damn low.

Or people who don't check out our hours. We do lunch and dinner, closed in the mid-afternoon. Sorry about your damn luck that you try to come by when we're closed. If you had the three seconds to check our ad on Craigslist, you have three seconds to check our opening hours. I also really don't care for the argument that omg, they're applying to SO many places, how can they be expected to check the hours of every one???? If you can't even do that, I guess you can't be expected to do your job either, because that'd just be HARD.

Haha, I'm so cranky.

Unless it is on your birth certificate, and if it is, well, you may have a whole other set of problems.

LOL FOREVER

[foolish_m0rtal]

Gmail even has the option of having an alias, which is what I designate as my professional handle for jobs etc. on my college email.

There really is no excuse. Also, using your parents/spouse's email. Laaaame. Get your own.

[angstbunny]

GET YOUR OWN INDEED

Also, I kinda don't get joint email addresses. I see those sometimes, too, where it's not somebody using somebody else's email, but that it's clearly a joint email address. I guess I can kind of get it, for social situations, but it still doesn't jive for work/professional purposes.

[ms_nerd]

Hahahahaha!! I remember one chick who sent in a resume for a receptionist position. Her e-mail was something like lik2partynfuhard or something like that and we just tossed it.

[angstbunny]

LOLOLOLOLOL okay, I think that rocks beyond any of the stupid ones I've seen.

[one_more_cherry]

People like that are the reason I deliberately got a professional-sounding account that I use for non-fandomy correspondence, and proported school and job stuff.

[angstbunny]

YES THANK YOU