{"id":447,"date":"2006-11-17T14:18:20","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T20:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=447"},"modified":"2006-11-17T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T20:18:16","slug":"anecdote-online-dating-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/anecdote-online-dating-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Anecdote &#8211; Online Dating? Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s back! <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=228\" target=\"_blank\">Back in August I first posted<\/a> on this employment ad respondent and then just a month later he <a href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/?p=291\" target=\"_blank\">emailed me again<\/a>. I hadn&#8217;t heard a peep out of him for 2 months when out of the blue I received another email. This time he wasn&#8217;t inquiring about a position, but it seems I have made it onto his distribution list for garbage emails.<\/p>\n<p>I have received several emails (more than I care to count) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/inboxer\/medical\/arlington.asp\" target=\"_blank\">about the latest sick child that AOL will donate 32\u00a2 for every email forwarded<\/a> to Microsoft will pay you $245 for every email you forward.<\/p>\n<p>You know, this is the glamorous side of sourcing that you just don&#8217;t read about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He&#8217;s back! Back in August I first posted on this employment ad respondent and then just a month later he emailed me again. I hadn&#8217;t heard a peep out of him for 2 months when out of the blue I received another email. This time he wasn&#8217;t inquiring about a position, but it seems I have made it onto his distribution list for garbage emails. I have received several emails (more than I care to count) about the latest sick child that AOL will donate 32\u00a2 for every email forwarded to Microsoft will pay you $245 for every email you forward. You know, this is the glamorous side of sourcing&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/11\/anecdote-online-dating-part-3\/\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-7d","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":237,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/08\/ads-final-stageresumes\/","url_meta":{"origin":447,"position":0},"title":"Ad&#8217;s Final Stage=Resumes","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 16, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a quick tip about posting jobs on major boards. We have a couple ads expiring shortly (within days) and are getting swamped with emails. We've written about this phenomenon before. At the end of an ad's posting window, a bubble of responses will flood in to your inbox. We\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Hiring&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Hiring","link":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/category\/hiring\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":291,"url":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2006\/09\/anecdote-online-dating-part-deux\/","url_meta":{"origin":447,"position":1},"title":"Anecdote &#8211; Online Dating? Part Deux","author":"Lee Fratzke","date":"September 8, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday anecdotes and the saga continues. This week I thought I would bring you up to speed on this post - Anecdote - Online Dating? I have received the following 2 emails from him since the first post. 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