Class, At Last

During my years online, I’ve always devoted a portion of my time studying and fighting spam, hoaxes, scams and urban legends, among other Internet abuses.
After that prank when someone posted my resume on some of the most abusive job hunting sites, I was inundated with all manner of inappropriate offers. A great many of them were things for which I was simply unqualified, not to mention uninterested. The biggest bunch were variations of sales positions, under which I include recruiter jobs.
Some of these last types were outright scams. At least two of them required me contacting the upstream provider to shut off the spam, because their “opt-out” links were bogus. Others took almost two weeks to stop the flow. A couple of weeks ago it finally seemed about done.
Out of the blue today I got a sale job offering from an insurance outfit. You can check complaint sites like Ripoff Report and decide for yourself about the merits of the reports. Also note this company absorbed the notorious Mega Life Health Insurance. While I won’t post here my rant against the insurance industry, nor my dislike for salesmen and marketers in general, suffice to say I was offended at the very idea. So I fired off something rude:

Chances are I already possess more skill and talent in sales than anyone in your company. I also have better morals than to be a slimy manipulator marketing crap nobody wants or needs.
In case it’s not obvious to you, take me off your mailing list.

Shameful, no? Post your verbal abuse of me below in the comments. At any rate, the person identified in the return address was actually a human. An intelligent one, at that. Her response was something about God’s gift of humility, and that I was removed from their list. You can hear the hot air hissing out of the blowup doll.
So here’s to a class act, Sandra Washburn at Insphere Insurance. Mea culpa.