{"id":376,"date":"2006-10-20T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2006-10-20T20:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=376"},"modified":"2006-10-20T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-20T20:00:56","slug":"anecdote-the-bewildering-email-round-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/anecdote-the-bewildering-email-round-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anecdote &#8211; The Bewildering Email (Round 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just this week I received an all-too-familiar email response to a new ad we just posted. In fact, <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=56\" target=\"_blank\">I originally posted on this strange email dialogue back in May<\/a>.  The hauntingly familiar, mangled syntax message arrived with little regard for my clear ad instructions &#8211; all applicants were asked to either email their resume or to call me directly.  His one sentence email:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>is new business coming from advertising agencies also clients who use your services in the new york city marketplace important to you?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being a glutton for punishment, I decided to go down this path again. I responded with the exact same email that I sent him earlier this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I apologize, I am unclear as to your inquiry.  If you are interested in learning more about the position, call me at 123-456-7890 or if you are interested in applying for it, please email your resume to me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The difference &#8211; this time he did not respond whatsoever.  Somewhat interesting for someone who claims to be able to get new business in a tough market like New York City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just this week I received an all-too-familiar email response to a new ad we just posted. In fact, I originally posted on this strange email dialogue back in May. The hauntingly familiar, mangled syntax message arrived with little regard for my clear ad instructions &#8211; all applicants were asked to either email their resume or to call me directly. His one sentence email: is new business coming from advertising agencies also clients who use your services in the new york city marketplace important to you? Being a glutton for punishment, I decided to go down this path again. I responded with the exact same email that I sent him earlier&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/10\/anecdote-the-bewildering-email-round-2\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-64","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->