why do people use fuxored email addresses for business?

[alkemyst]

guy was born in 1954 so '69' is not his date of birth...he is a plumber though.

x69LayinPipe9x@

funny, but I don't know if I'd have gone with the x_ _x thing

 

[Atomic Playboy]

That's a great e-mail address, wow. I've always kept at least a couple on file; one for various spam nonsense, one for actual friends and family, one for any business or school related stuff... It's just common sense. I wouldn't go apply for a job with "Bong Smoking Hippie" as my e-mail contact.

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

some people have no clue about being taken seriously in a business environment.

 

[DnetMHZ]

I always laugh when we get resumes from addresses like that. Sure lets hire lazy_bud_smoker42@ !

 

[Leros]

A friend asked me to look over her resume. The first thing I noticed was her email address in the corner. It was something like CutiePie4U@mail.com. Made me laugh.

Your professional (classes, work, etc) email should be easy to link to your name. John.Smith@mail.com or jsmith@mail.com Something like that.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

So are you saying I shouldn't put drunkcrackfiend@420.gov as my email address?

 

[Chryso]

People are dumb. I thought everyone knew this already.

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Leros
A friend asked me to look over her resume. The first thing I noticed was her email address in the corner. It was something like CutiePie4U@mail.com. Made me laugh.

Your professional (classes, work, etc) email should be easy to link to your name. John.Smith@mail.com or jsmith@mail.com Something like that.

100% agreed. I can't count the number of times I've seen resumes like that and that always gives me a negative impression of the sender. It's fine to be batwoman outside of work, but when I get your resume I expect firstname.lastname, flastname, or some variation with few exceptions (there are some hackers that are pretty well known who go by their handles, I tend to excuse those cases)

Bill

 

[mundane]

The main motivation behind registering my own domain was to have a professional (non-yahoo, non-hotmail, etc) personal (non-company) email address.

 

[Aikouka]

I think their purpose got across... you remembered their e-mail 😛.

 

[gorcorps]

I'll be using my jason-bourne@cia.com account for everything and anything official.

 

[Chewy]

not related, but my voicemail used to be "I'm DRUUUUNK, leave a msg". Then I had to change it when I applied to new jobs.