Spam, life insurance, spam.

My resume hss been up on Careerbuilder and someone I don't like picked it up.

In the past week I've gotten job interview requests from Aflac, Metlife and ... I forget- Banker's perhaps? The body of the email is identical, which is odd since I thought these companies were competitors. I'd think it was a third-party but they seems to be official, with company logos and email addresses. Anyway, each of them starts like this:

I found your résumé on CareerBuilder, and I am very interested in your skills for our career opportunity. I know your past experience may not have been focused on sales or insurance and you may not have considered a career in insurance sales, but some of our most successful associates had résumés just like yours.

The second sentence actually got me wondering. Would a software engineer really switch over to selling insurance? I quickly dismissed that idea- my skillset is that of someone who has been working for a solid decade- far longer than the period ending with an "oh my god, the money is great but I really can't stand talking to a computer for the next thirty years." Further most software and anybody who understands Dilbert's frustrations has a very low opinion of salespeople. I was being asked to do one of the things I hate most about corporate America- the use of marketing to make a better product, which usually comes at the expense of good engineering.

Rereading the text confirmed it- no specifics, not even an "[insert resume title here]" to make it look tailored.

Which means that I just got spammed, not just by one asshole, but by a conglomerate of assholes. This, of course, puts me in a combative mood.

So I signed up. To each one of them, and to several interviews for each company. Least I could do- the company wastes some money, the hiring personnel get a little break from work, and maybe I'll get blacklisted and not bothered by these people in the future.

Unfortunately, they must be quite desperate. I was asked to reschedule an interview I missed. I wonder how many times it will take before someone notices my name sounds awfully familiar. My money is on someone from MetLife- Snoopy is way smarter than that Aflac duck.


In other news I got a piece of spam on 3/15/09 with the subject "Vote for Mccane on our site". The body was only a link with the following text: "This could seriously boost your love life. "

People, please! Put expiration dates on your spambots and tell them to phone home for new email subjects and corrections to improper spellings of presidential candidates' names.