Funny email from a recruiter (start from the bottom). The point I made to her is that if she uses offensive techniques to find employees it just may work, and poor iXL will end up with a bunch of employees who think spamming is a healthy use of the Internet.
From: Victor Lombardi Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 3:41 PM To: Tracy Subject: RE: Networking... Hmmmmm, so after being "sourced" by your research department you're now "networking." Could another way of phrasing this be a spider found my name on the Internet and now you're spamming me? ;-) ... At 08:57 AM 6/19/00 -0400, you wrote: Hi Victor- We have a large research dept. and they sourced you. I don't know specifically how they found you, but it was through the Internet. When they find information for us, they pass it along to the Recruiting team. Thanks, Tracy -----Original Message----- From: Victor Lombardi Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2000 9:50 PM To: Tracy Subject: Re: Networking... Hi Tracy, May I ask who passed my name along to you? Thanks. Victor At 03:29 PM 6/16/00 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Victor- My name is Tracy Dillee and I am a Corporate Recruiter with iXL, >Inc, in Atlanta. Your name was passed along to me by our research dept. as >someone with whom I could network in the human factors/interface design >industry... > >Best Regards, > >Tracy Dillee >Corporate Recruiter >iXL, Inc., Atlanta Operations