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

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....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.

"stay classy"

LOVE that!

YANBU at all, you have to sift through the hundreds of applicants somehow and if there's something that indicates lack of thought then use it! There's no excuse to not set up an email address just for job applications if nothing else, they are free and it takes ten minutes. I have a silly one (NOT rude) and a sensible surname based one.

Where I work (do incidentally see lots of customer email addresses when dealing with their accounts, some are funny :)) we get a lot of people using the net/printing facilities to apply for jobs, and I do despair of what they provide sometimes, but it's not my place, we aren't allowed to sit down with them and go through it as we are just the facility provider.

And at the tortoises! (unfortunately I mean that literally... It's not pretty when you have a cold!)

"Bit harsh rejecting people because their parents have named them Brandons, Kyles, Ethans, Jaydens etc isn't it Schlumberger?"

I thought that myself.

When I started job hunting I set up an email address with firstname initial secondname in it because I thought it would look better than my other two, both of which could be considered a bit kooky, although not rude. I also wanted to keep my job search separate to the rest of my emails.

YANBU. You get warned not to do this all the time along with 'don't pick your nose at the interview.'

bogeyface I saw a template covering letter written by Avanta, one of those companies cashing in the Work Programme by pretending to provide training and help to get JSA claimants back into work.

It was appalling: there was no way you'd get an interview with it. It was a generic and there was no advice to tailor it to the job or company, it started Dear Sir/Madam instead of advising the person to track down a name or at least the relevant department and the layout was terrible.

I called Avanta to ask them about it. The person I spoke to didn't realise there was anything wrong with it and got hurt that I was 'having a go' at her when she was 'just trying to do her job.'

YANBU, at all. I would do the same.

limited DS's letter was from a so-called "training" company that he was sent to by the jobcentre. What a waste of bloody money for a start, if they are so crap!

at 'Brandons, Kyles, Ethans'. That's just horrible snobbery, and not what this thread is about at ALL.

btw does no one else have a pushy mother?

Mine attended one of my first interviews because she was paying my train fare and I didn't dare argue with her. She didn't come in the room but insisted on waiting in Reception. I didn't get the job. Funny that.

Thereafter I banned her. There have been big rows and a lot of tears and sulking but I won.

I can never let my guard down though.

I recently had a very important meeting - not a job interview - and she again tried to gatecrash. She's got crafty over the years. She attempted to make it look casual by taking me to lunch beforehand and planned to drift along with me. I sent her away when we left the restaurant. There was a row and she cried a bit.

She's even tried to hold my hand at hospital appointments.

I am 46 and a quarter.

She thinks it's normal. In her view other mothers who send their adult children out all alone in the world don't love them enough.

It is because she loves me and truly cannot see it makes me look like a social cripple .

bogey Yep. Avanta's one of those. It's shocking. Still, at least someone's making money

I am appalled that someone would filter based on someones name, practically the only thing that they have 100% no control over!

Can you please explain exactly why Brandons, Ethans and Kyles et al are "dodgy" names?

limited I told him to smile, nod and go through the motions when he is there and then use the CV we have here, same with any covering letters. They printed him off a great sheaf of them, with no thought to changing it for each application just as you mentioned. It beggars belief.

People do bogeyface-people won't have it on baby naming threads-but it happens. I think that filtering out as a badminton player is worse. If you have hundreds of applicants for a few places you can filter how you like!

I have a "rocketmail" email (remember them? They were one of the very first free email providers, then got taken over by yahoo but kept the old accounts on the yahoo service). I like it because I have a straight [email protected] but the "rocketmail" does make me cringe a bit.

My personal bugbear is when people have to have a number in their address, because there are too many John Smith's etc, and they choose johnsmith69

A disproportionate number of people do it. Why???

That would be binnage for me

MY DH employed the son of one of my work colleagues once. She was excited when she realised what DH did and I said I'd put in a word. She passed me his CV to pass to DH. I ended up re-writing it for him . It was awful, he didn't even put his name on it and talked about how stressful he'd found his p/t job delivering pizzas. This was for a skilled graduate position.

DH employed him against his better judgement and fired him shortly afterwards.

maybe they know it's cos most people lie about the badminton. I think it's what people with no actual interests write

Like when people write "socialising" it means they're a functioning alcoholic

I used to play badminton a lot so put it down on my CV.

How about filtering people out who do extreme sports> I do quite a few but never dare put it on a CV as I'm worried any potential employer would think I'd be off with broken limbs all the time.

Then you get the 18 year olds who tell me that they don't have email. Firstly I don't believe you. Secondly, if it is true - get one now!

Perhaps they just don't have internet access. If they are 18 they probably live with their parents so whether or not there is internet access in the house is not their choice. I doubt they would be able to afford it plus a computer themselves so i wouldn't hold it against them at that age.

My personal bugbear is when people have to have a number in their address, because there are too many John Smith's etc, and they choose johnsmith69
A disproportionate number of people do it. Why???
That would be binnage for me

Well to be fair, if they are being told to have a simple name based email and their name has been taken, what else can they do?! There is only one [email protected] available (and I bet he get LOADS of spam!) so short of changing their names, I am at a loss what you expect them to do!

HermionE are you sure the person got their sex wrong and aren't just transgendered?

I've got badminton tickets for the Olympics.

I'm very excited.

or have I misunderstood and it is 69 you object to, not names and number per se?

Richman, my DS has a common name and has a firstnamelastnamenumber e-mail address. His number is the year of his birth e.g. johnsmith92@...

Why would the 92 be a problem?

I've had a job application from a woman where I strongly suspected her dh had written it for her. The line "i am interested in this job because of the regular 9-5 hours which will allow me to spend time at home with my husband" clinched it.

My dad used to work for a huge electrical store, they were opening their biggest store to date and were advertising for over 60 positions for part time/weekend staff - as you can imagine they got over 1000 CVs and needed an extreme but consistent method to work through them, they were firstly split into piles of 100 and eventually had to be put into piles of 10 so that there were about 100 - 120 people to be interviewed.

During the process they all had a tick list which each CV had to abide by, mostly it was email addresses, spelling mistakes and hand written CVs were out - they ad to be ruthless otherwise they would have got nowhere! I was about 13 at the time and my dad give me a red marker and told me to mark each one that didn't have their name or initials as their email address.

We probably culled about 70% of them using this method, the others were basic mistakes - instead of a cover letter each candidate had to complete a basic info sheet which included name, DOB, gender etc The company insisted on this as the last time they interviewed they had noticed that a remarkable amount of candidate's CVs lacked this basic information.

Anyway, by the time we had spent about a week sifting through them my Dad interviewed them, he again used a tick list - jeans were at the top of his list for this, along with poor personal hygiene and, yep, you guessed it, people who brought friends or parents along!

When they eventually got their candidates they sent the other applicants a letter to explain that their application had not been successful, along with an information sheet on CVs and advice for future job applications.

I just don't think that anyone realised what they were doing was wrong, or thought to check that the CV that had been created by a "professional firm" for errors. It was actually a great exercise for me ha ha my CV has quite often been commented on as being perfect! Maybe they should make all 13 y/olds trawl through piles of them ha ha