AIBU to have judged and not interview because of ...

[JumpingThroughHoops]

....emails addresses?

Shoot me but XXX-Bitch_troll@etc and XXX-smokes-dope@etc goes straight in the shred pile.

If you are too stupid to set up a regular email account for job applications then you are too stupid to employ. I find it more frightening they could possibly be on a jury or vote.

Yanbu - I have heard that some employers have had so many applications for a job that if the envelope isn't properly addressed it goes straight in the bin.

I have an account with 'oink.co.uk'; would that make anyone bulk - it has my proper name with it btw?

YNBU - applicants should know better!

I'm sorry but are you seriously saying people's mums apply for jobs for them? Actually really? Are the previous did diddums too highly strung to do something that boring?

YANBU. I deliver employment advice and tell all my customers to apply with a professional sounding email address.

Precious, not previous!

Oh don't even go with the mothers who phone up to ask for interviews/see how interview went.

I could weep I really could.

WhyDontYouMindYourOwnBuisness what type of buisness do you think wouldn't mind whether applicants put some thought into their job application?

When I worked in a bar, one chap that worked there was hired specifically because on his CV he'd put 'I'm a whizz at teletext'. He was lovely too, and great at the job. Depends what job you're applying for I guess!

YANBU. Mind you, I've recently had people fill in an online job application and one got their own first name wrong (put initial only) and another got their own gender wrong.

I've had someone's dad come in with them to ask about a job, but it was weekend retail work and obviously her first job so I could kind of understand it. The daughter looked very relieved when we sent her dad packing though :)

Mums really do. I run a restaurant- not a very elegant or ultra posh one- and it's very common. The worst is when the DC is standing awkwardly in the corner while the mum does all the talking

WhyDontYouMindYourOwnBuisness Thu 21-Jun-12 21:29:22
You are definatly being unreasonable. But with that nasty attitude I doubt many people would want to work for you anyway

I'd worry your spell checker was disabled.

There's hundreds (even thousands) of applicants for each job that comes about these days, you'd think with that many people going for the job these people would try to sell themselves a bit better than providing emails like that.

I'd do the same OP. although a dear old woman who I know goes by 'slutdomination' :0

Whilst I don't agree with whydontyou I don't agree with people going on about spelling in arguments. It's pointless...

YANBU

Someone's mum once phoned us for directions to the office for her daughters interview then turned up with her. She actually came in to the building with her. Fair enough if your mum is giving you a lift but get her to wait outside. What sort of impression does that give.

jumpingthroughhoops, I think I know the tortoise lady! In her defence though, those tortoises are like little Houdinis, so it's easier that she carts them about instead of trying to track them down... :o

Oh and YANBU, OP.

I have been told I must interview an internal applicant for a vacancy within my team tomorrow, in spite of the CV detailing no skills and having a "kooky" email address. Why she didn't just use the work email address, I have no idea, as she already has a role within our company. Doesn't fill me with confidence, and I wouldn't have selected the CV from any reasonable pile.

I have to wonder if anyone childish enough to call you unreasonable and that you have such a nasty attitude and nobody would want to work for you has ever held down a job, let alone left school worked in a profession.

I used to despair at the cv's we got in my old place, and it was just bog standard retail. I still never hired anyone who had unprofessional email addresses, turned up to the interview in jeans etc. It might only be retail but I wanted my staff to have some standards!

When I applied for a very low-level job in a bank when I first left school (a hundred years ago), I was called in for a much better job after they saw my application form. They specifically asked me to bring my mum with me for the interview!

I once, against my better judgement, employed a girl whose mother had applied on her behalf - she was related to my boss, so I was under some pressure to 'give her a chance'. Her mother regularly used to ring me at 8am on my mobile to tell me that her daughter couldn't come to work that day as she had to go to the dentist/ had a really bad cold/ had to go shopping for a bridesmaids dress (seriously.)
My boss was very understanding, and in total agreement, when I suggested that we terminate the arrangement before the girl's trial period was up . . . .

My email address is [email protected].

I have been teased about my surname since I was a child but everyone knows this email address so it doesn't seem sensible to change it. I suspect that a number of people have thought it was a joke email address but it isn't,

YANBU. In an old job I sometimes dealt with the general 'info@' email address. We would periodically get angry messages from people, asserting their high skills and professional status, and stating the ways in which the organisation had apparently underestimated and mistreated them.
Email from: sexylilbunny2002@.... or [email protected] fluffywuffydoodah@....
ever failed to make me laugh!
(I did always respond impeccably politely, though!)

I dont think yabu at all. Infact yesterday I made a rather depressing discovery.

My disabled son has been trying to get a paid job (he currently volunteers) for almost 2 years and got nowhere. I offered to look over his most recent CV but got knocked back as it was put together by him and professional job search....person/clerk/trainer...whatever they are called, about 6 months ago.

Well yesterday I read it, and the covering letter that the "professional" wrote for him.

No wonder he has never had an interview. "Dear Sir/Madame, I Wish to apply for you're vacancy....." and it got worse.....

I was more annoyed with DS tbh, as he can read and spell and should have checked it before sending it out! His CV was painful. So I rewrote his CV into something I would accept if it had been sent to me, made him an email address from my company email instead of the frankly stupid one he had and helped him rewrite his covering letter. I even helped him print the envelope instead of writing it. So we shall see.........

So dont blame the applicants, sometimes they are sending you this drivel based on so call "professional" advice