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[Butterfly]

That recruiter must have seen this thread by now (as likely he reads this board like everyone else) ~ he must be having such a laugh.

I just had to change my e-mail address from hotmail to yahoo because of the spam I was getting. I never at any point indicated that I wanted to receive e-mails entitled "cu m see teen $lut$ getting raped." but I get them all the same. I also never indicated to anyone that I wanted viagra or to enlarge my nob. But the e-mails came and came.

The OP at some point did clearly indicate that she was in the market for a job, gave her e-mail address, so as far as recruiters are concerned she is pretty fair game for email circulars. Thus it must have come as something of a shock to said recruiter, after sending the ad to probably scores of recipients, casting his net as wide as possible that one of them writes back and calls him stupid because he is supposed to remember that this solipcistic person, wanted to go to Taegu not Ilsan. It seems ridiculous to me, to take this issue seriously, it is one of those tiny little things that happens, that I for one, wouldn't give a second thought, let alone write back and insult the guy. He made a tiny split second click decision and gets called stupid. I'd be pretty annoyed.

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[Holyjoe]

[humanuspneumos]

Ummmmmmmmm- those of us who have been in this business for years and years know better.


First- people have made it a career out of ignoring which city people are asking for and push unwanted mail into the job searcher's mailbox regularly. Not only did the Corporal's patience run thin- there's that Spam case in America. The general public is sick of getting unwanted trash in their email boxes. That's where things are-a-moving. The times- they are-a changing. wa wa wa wa wa wa


Second- keeping it in the realm of burger and only changing a few items on the burger itself might be how it looks to you. Have you ever heard someone say- "I'll punch you into the next zip code?" The reason they are saying this is to illustrate how far off one zip code is from another. Me thinx that Corporal was sick and tired of getting mail for yet another zip code. So- simply changing a few items and having the final product still be a burger isn't the same as a total zip code change. It's just not the same. This is not to mention that most Korean people know well the names of their major cities.


Third- I think this thread has broken down somewhere because the major point was that racism was brought into the realm of insults. I don't know what Corporal would have said if the recruiter called him stupid back. However, I do know that racism is a huge no-no as an insult. It just is. Perhaps in other countries it isn't. From where Corporal and a few others stand- it is just much bigger than "stupid."


Fourth- we are the client they are the clerks (They're supposed to be maintaining their professional stance no matter what.) When Corporal ends-up in a classroom it's up to him to maintain his professional stance.

[Cthulhu]

Well I've learned one thing on this thread--to put it bluntly, anaologies suck, 'cos everyone's got an angle on them. Better to use facts, lies and damned statistics.

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[Zyzyfer]

[The Lemon]

[cheem]

Well, in this case it's more like the white man calling the black man "whitie". I'm not sure where that falls on the scale of insults.

And I agree that analogies suck. I think in the history of message boards there have been only one or two appropriate analogies.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Holyjoe]

I wonder if there's anything in the first 4 letters of the word analogy

[Hagwon Muppet]

Sorry Holyjoe is right. This fictitious burger bar conversation goes something like this:

Customer: Hello. Whopper please.

Pleasant Burger Bar Assistant: Ah, actually we're out of Whoppers. How about a Bacon Double Cheeseburger?

Customer: No Thanks. I wanted a Whopper.

Pleasant Burger Bar Assistant: Are you sure? *Fetches BDC and shows it to customer* They're really rather tasty and cheaper than a whopper.

Customer (in irate tone): No! Why the hell would i want a BDC when I asked for a whopper? Eh? Eh? Are you stupid? WELL ARE YOU?

None too Chuffed Burger Bar Assistant: Christ sake! I only asked!!! Whats your problem. **** off and don't come back!!

Who was unreasonable?

Also, you'd have to be a 'special' kind of person to pick a fight with someone for sending you an unwanted email. I get plenty of them. I just delete em. Some people are just short-tempered I guess.

As for the racism aspect I have no knowledge of the term 'bananas' and its racist connotations so I can't comment.

[TheUrbanMyth]

[TheUrbanMyth]

[Hagwon Muppet]