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loudTopic: Job Search
Dear Mr. Shanahan,
I received your e-mail just a bit ago and am extremely freaked out by its contents. Let me explain.
Currently, this economy has us all on the edge. As a current employee of Louisiana State University, we are on the brink of a major budget cut which could send 500 of us home without jobs in the coming weeks.
In order to prepare for this possible loss, I started job hunting. So, you were lucky enough to receive my resume.
Your e-mail to me was ill-fitting. You said, "sorry, I don't have a job for everyone." Fair enough. I never expected a job for everyone, or I wouldn't be job hunting.
I appreciate your efforts to cheer me up when you said you know what it's like to struggle to pay the bills and then you attempted to point me in the right direction.
After I glanced at your life story, I'm a little disgusted. The position I applied for at your office was a secretary, something that I could've done straight out of high school, but instead I have a degree.
Taking that into consideration, it's plainly obvious that you are directing applicants you can't interview to a Google scam. Your web site is slapped together with photos and screenshots of the money you supposedly made.
You direct readers to apply for a Google Cash Kit that's "free"—it's not free Mr. Shanahan. Throughout your life story, you keep telling readers that you make all this money working from home. Why then, I ask Eric, do you need an office secretary?
Bottom line, not everyone that applies for jobs online is savvy. Some people, especially now, are looking for any way to make a quick dollar. You are not helping the matter by sending people to your silly scam.
I don't believe for a second you made the money you claim to have writing Google ads. I clicked on your "life story" hoping to see something real, because hey, I like stories. However, I'm not into fiction.
Now that my lunch hour at my real job has ended with this letter, have a great day.
Sincerely,
Holly A. Phillips
