Dear spamming dickhead...

[prince_eric]

On Feb 2, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Seth Johnson wrote:
> My name is Seth and I’m a junior at UNH. I’ve been working for College Pro for two
> years. Summer is only a couple months away, and my company has a few manager
> positions left for 2006. For the past two summers working for College Pro, I have
> been able to, Be My own Boss, Make Great Money, Gain Management Experience,
> and Build My Resume.
>
> If you think you want to learn a bit more about College Pro e-mail me with:


First, I'm a staff member here, not a student. Second, I'm not terribly happy that an e-mail address I have never used getting scraped off of our university website and used to spam me.

Please do not mail me again. Regardless of whether this is corporate policy or just one person doing this, either way I won't be using College Pro painters for any jobs I might ever have, and will mention this incident to anyone that I know of that might be considering using College Pro's services.

Comments

[montoya.livejournal.com]

Man, you still have the time and ability to get mad at specific individual pieces of spam? That's very retro.

[prince-eric.livejournal.com]

Well, first this one made it past the filters (SpamAssassin, Sophos and Apple's Mail.app) and into my inbox.

Second, I've also had two contractors basically do the same thing to try and recruit me, and I've had to deal with their "Oh, we just have no idea where or how we got this address. We have a variety of sources, maybe you used it somewhere and just forgot." level of disingenuity ("No, really, stop scraping our web site. This address is just forwarding to my department e-mail account. The only legitimate e-mail I get is from a couple of friends elsewhere in the university that mail me to see if I'm available for lunch, and nothing going out from it. Bitches.").

As I'm already somewhat irritated ("Dear NetApp: Your quota system looks quite suspiciously like it's either broken, or sucks beyond belief. Also, your CIFS process going nuts and needing to be terminated and the setup command rerun (while accepting the current configuration values, no less) to get it working again isn't doing much to endear you to me. Kisses, Prince Eric."), the chance to take a passing kick at an easy target was just too tempting.

Ignoring the recruiters, this is the first spam I've responded to in several years, actually....

[ctseawa.livejournal.com]

College Pro is famous for screwing its student employees by promising them great paying summers, working them to death, then finding reasons to short their pay.

There is no way I can think of that any of them could ever convince me to consider doing any kind of business with them.