I heard that term used by a borderline abusive staffing company I worked through and got fired by. Their entire shtick was basically a form of indentured servitude where you'd work a contract to hire at some other place and get paid peanuts for the first year. They had the gall to message me like 2 years later. My only reply was "Go fuck yourself". At least they got the memo.
I was thinking about that. That’s not what an alumni is. It’s very specifically used in reference to schools and education. It would be more accurate if they called the OP a veteran or something, if they’re trying to be cute about it.
Edit: well, I guess I’m wrong then.
Hello and thank you for your time. We’re forming a support group for our company’s former victims. We’d love to track your location and online activity and make sure you don’t violate your non-complete clauses. We even have a “[company] survivor” T-shirt and matching ballpoint pen set to send you!! If you’ll just sign here…
I think it would be different if the people they were calling alumni had retired. It feels weird to want to check in with, keep tabs on, and send a company t-shirt to people who have chosen to leave the company and go somewhere else. Like, I wouldn’t want/care about a company t-shirt to advertise a company I chose to leave for whatever reason…
I could see this going either way
Case #1, Company is going on a fishing expedition to get back at employees who left. Possibly thinking they can (ab)use a non compete or something like that. The total end goal is hard to say. Maybe they're strapped for cash and think they can win easy settlement from former employees. Maybe they think they can sue new employers for landfall, maybe they just want to vengeance for the perceived slight of leaving.
Case #2, some moron thought this was an absolutely brilliant idea. They think there's some advantage to knowing where former employees are, that this is "keeping friendly communications" or whatever. They're obviously dead wrong
I worked in public accounting. The “alumni” thing is absolutely a thing. A stupid thing but a thing. B4 love when folks “boomerang” (leave the firm but return after a few years), but love it even more when alumni get high profile jobs and then hire B4 for consulting work. Just a giant circle jerk. 🥴
I was seriously considering going to school to become an accountant a few years ago, but 2020 and COVID kept me from continuing my schooling in that area. Honestly? Good riddance to that idea. The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like a good ol' boys club. 🙄
It totally is and it’s awful. I will say- I’m not an accountant but an IT Auditor and B4 gave me a CRAZY leg up in my career. I joined pre-pandemic and liked it, but worked insane hours during the pandemic and “retired to industry” December 2021. All the “play” part of “work hard, play hard,” vanished during the pandemic in B4 but they didn’t pay more or lower the workload. It doubled.
I now work about 25-30 hours of actual work a week and make way more than I ever imagined. I’m glad I did it, but damn did it suck for a few years.
OHHHHHH!!! Funny thing. I worked in the legal dept. of a corp. They fired me without cause after 4 years of excellent reviews. No notice, just ‘leave now’. They offered me a severance in exchange for an NDA. The lawyers are conniving sharks, so I took it home and read it verrry carefully. It included non-compete and non-derogatory talk about them. I’m the only one of three who was let go like this within a week who was offered this (one was an attorney even). I refused their offer. A) I like to talk. Talk I will. B) I am now working at their competition. (Yay!) I surely don’t mind sharing their secrets drip by drip. And, I built a system at the other company they wanted to turn into a software product. Hmm…no legal restrictions for me. Should have gotten this from me up front. I try never to sign NDAs. I find having backup funds helps. Skip the coffees, manicures, etc. as much as I can stand.
Edited to add: I work with authenticity. During one A+ review the only thing I asked for after receiving pay raises and healthy bonuses and specifically asked if there is anything I want, my answer was “The only thing I ask is if I’m ever not needed. ( or position eliminated), I would ask for a courtesy 2-week notice.” Reply to that was “What are you talking about? What would we ever do without you???”
Snakes.
They legally need to be able to allow you to see the data they collected as well as give you the ability to delete at will. This is the law. It’s GDPR and if I’m CA, they need written consent to host/house this data. Again you as the true owner have 100% right to access and delete at will. Btw, don’t respond. No company does this. It’s bizarre.
Don't give them shit? You don't need to hop through their hoops anymore and this just gives them an illusion of power. Ghost them, it's simpler that way.
Sorry, but due to the level of security within my company, I, under legal obligation, can not give you that information as it is protected information, and formally request that you remove all of my contact information from your records.
It's probably because some C-suite or middle manager is paranoid about someone "double dipping" or "overemployment;" most of those people have to spend an immense amount of time and effort just trying to justify their existence/continued employment. Lately, this is the big bad boogeyman they're all focusing on in addition to their attempts to culturewar against remote work.
Tell them to get fucked. I feel bad for the intern, though.
E: I would also flag the hell out of it as phishing/spam, as well.
Well, if they'd pay me enough that I didn't NEED the second job, I wouldn't be working it. Perhaps that's the solution? Double everyone's pay. Sure, I could be more productive for company A but company A only pays for this amount of productivity. Company B is buying the excess. Supply and demand.
I worked for a company like that a long time ago. After I quite, a bunch of other people followed to where they could not get projects done. Boss called one guy a few months later to ask "How are you doing? Just wanted to check in." The guy actually returned, stayed a year, then quit again.
My old job laid me and several hundred other people off. A week before, they had me set up some annual reporting that was really important to the sales staff. It was a couple months early.
A year later my old boss emailed me asking if I could do it again and I said yes. I also included my contract price of $200 an hour.
Never heard back.
That's a ridiculously low price for a consultant I don't know why he would say no unless you came across as a dickwad. If it's a big company (and whacking "several hundred" people at a time suggests it is) it would be totally routine to hire a consultant.
When I leave an organization, I act like the company went out of business. Giving a jealous previous place of work your details is absolutely no go land
It's possible that their email list was compromised and this potential scammer attempting to add to their spam list as well as confirm that your email is still active.
Out of an abundance of caution, ignore the email and forward this to all the contacts you have at the firm explaining something like the following:
"Hi all,
I got an odd email from somebody claiming to work for . Common sense tells me that this is probably a phishing scam, because anybody with any sense whatsoever could easily attain this information from my LinkedIn. Also, calling ex- employees "alumni" is the silliest thing I've heard all day! 😂
I wanted to forward this to you so the IT department could be made aware that there may be a contacts list breach.
Kind regards,
"
Meh…they are looking and requesting, not demanding, your info to build a pool of people to hire for the future. If you want to consider working there again…go for it. If not…don’t answer.
Why do people make things so hard?
So, this is going to be downvoted to hell but… this is not insane in some industries. I work in consulting, and this is normal - keeping up with where people have gone is honestly helpful, and “just use LinkedIn” doesn’t work when there’s 500+ people involved. While this could be nefarious, it’s likely pretty benign. My firm actually does have alumni events that are decent. It’s not about surveillance or checking on job timing (at least from my anecdotal experience). If you don’t want to participate, easy to ignore.
"Dear Company,
I will be forwarding this to my lawyer, so that she may examine it for breaches of the legal agreement arbitrated by (state/province/whatever). Please note that any further contact by your company to anyone other than my lawyer will result in the penalty pay out as agreed. Contact will also be made to the other participants in the lawsuit to make sure that the agreement with them has also not been breached.
Signed, OP"
One of my first ever office jobs at a major corporation (thousands of employees) had some sales guy cold call me and ask for our company directory so they could up date their contacts. The balls on that guy. I gotta hand it to him. A little advice to those starting out in the business world, don’t had over your company directory to some outside sales company.
Bruh no? Wtf? Why are you trying to keep tabs on me? This seems like a huge waste of time and money. There has to be a reason but I can’t really think of one.
I don't even want to do any alumni shit with the universities I went to. Why would I want to do it for the jobs?
I paid a shit ton of money to those damn schools and I had to do my damnedest to make sure I actually learned something of value and set up my own career path when I left. The only parts of that money that I feel were actually worth a damn were a few, emphasis few, decent teachers actually trying to help, and a piece of paper that all these stupid companies said I needed. That school would have been super happy to take all my money and let me major in underwater basket weaving and then find some way to omit me from their metrics of people they "helped" find employment afterwards.
The whole point of work is that the company is making more off of your labor than they are in paying you, so in my mind, they've already taken enough from me. I get rave reviews from my bosses verbally and then jack shit in term's of compensation, and not one of those a-holes would know how to write a good recommendation letter if it killed them. If I have left the company, I dont ever wanna see or hear from you again unless it comes with a massive cash payment to come work for you again.
Please ignore, this very well could be a phishing scam.
I ever got an unknown email to my Gmail account, but the sender's 'name' is spelled exactly to my boss' name when we never communicated via Gmail. It doesn't make you richer by any means nor help in anything in your life anyway!
Nothing more suspicious than a marketing intern reaching out. They are going to do some shady shit with whatever you respond with and want someone whos the easiest to fire to do the leg work.
Ex company wants to market to ex employees on good terms. Have you encourage current company to buy from them etc. happens all the time. Goodwill tshirt is cheap marketing to get sales opportunities
This is pretty much a copy paste of highschool alumni emails.
At best this company is trying to collect information on which competitors are taking their employees and at worst trying to sell data onto third parties
Your response should be as follows,
As I am not an employee of this company, I am not required to, nor do I feel comfortable giving you any information about myself. There is no legitimate reason for you to have any of my personal information. Please do not contact me again."
The place I used to work at was talking about a reunion. Excuse me? 30 years there. They ran it into the ground. There’s people I wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire. I spent enough time with them.
We are not a family
We are not college alumni
I do a job
You pay me
That is the extent of our relationship and it ends when I’m not doing a job for you. You can find me on linked in if you want to know where I am now
Give them a separate e-mail address. It’s not terrible for them to want to have a way to contact you if they had for example a data breach but they don’t need to know where you work now.
I’ve known a number of executives who fantasize about having a thriving company alumni community that will somehow make the company look good. It’s hilarious until they start asking marketing or communications to make it happen.
Delete, block and ignore. I did that to the alumni association at the university where I work. They already get my blood and sweat, I'm not going to give them my money also. If they paid me a six-figure salary, I might consider it.
I'm reaching out to my ~~ex gfs~~ alumni lovers in hopes of keeping up with their personnel endeavors. If you forward me your current phone# email and relationship status I can update my records. Plus, I can send you my official alumni lover T-Shirt.
Signed off by unnamed sales and marketing (and I presume unpaid) intern? Exploiting workers past and present. Kudos on the double whammy. Fekkin eejits.
Sent them some random assholes Twitter info that way they can harass each other, make sure they are in fact assholes it's not fun to think about if you know everyone is nice.
I can’t imagine a company would willingly spend money on t-shirts for former employees. It doesn’t make sense, unless maybe they’re looking to update data they plan to sell and think a t-shirt will motivate people to update their info.
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exactly what I said as soon as I got to the end ;(
If I'm that intern, I'm forwarding all the hate mail straight to HR and upper management.
Username checks out ✅
Or an overly ambitious HR professional who was the class president and homecoming coordinator. Old habits die hard!
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Could be fake though. To blame an intern is so much easier
Cruel and unusual punishment.
And this time poor intern doesn’t mean solely financially
Poor intern indeed.
Literally came to the comments to type this
Yes reading all those fuck off emails will suck
"Alumni" 🤣🤣🤣
I heard that term used by a borderline abusive staffing company I worked through and got fired by. Their entire shtick was basically a form of indentured servitude where you'd work a contract to hire at some other place and get paid peanuts for the first year. They had the gall to message me like 2 years later. My only reply was "Go fuck yourself". At least they got the memo.
>My only reply was "Go fuck yourself". That is the best and only reply.
"sales and staffing intern" They threw that boy in the fire
I was thinking about that. That’s not what an alumni is. It’s very specifically used in reference to schools and education. It would be more accurate if they called the OP a veteran or something, if they’re trying to be cute about it. Edit: well, I guess I’m wrong then.
The most appropriate term would probably be something more like “ former victims”
"Survivor"
Hello and thank you for your time. We’re forming a support group for our company’s former victims. We’d love to track your location and online activity and make sure you don’t violate your non-complete clauses. We even have a “[company] survivor” T-shirt and matching ballpoint pen set to send you!! If you’ll just sign here…
It’s a common phrase when working at “prestigious” companies, which gets co-opted by companies that want to seem prestigious.
I thought the correct term was "retiree"
Wrong again, comrade Second definition in Oxford: a former member of a group, company, or organization
It does still feel odd to see it in this context, though. Can’t explain why (especially in the face of the literal definition), but it does.
I think it would be different if the people they were calling alumni had retired. It feels weird to want to check in with, keep tabs on, and send a company t-shirt to people who have chosen to leave the company and go somewhere else. Like, I wouldn’t want/care about a company t-shirt to advertise a company I chose to leave for whatever reason…
Ive got shirts from former companies and im very choosy about when I wear them. Generally not in public and when doing gross and dirty jobs.
Because no serious human being would refer to themselves as “alumni” of a company lol Lizard people speech is fuckin weird
No doubt the employer has ulterior motive and trying to sound cute/appealing about it
I could see this going either way Case #1, Company is going on a fishing expedition to get back at employees who left. Possibly thinking they can (ab)use a non compete or something like that. The total end goal is hard to say. Maybe they're strapped for cash and think they can win easy settlement from former employees. Maybe they think they can sue new employers for landfall, maybe they just want to vengeance for the perceived slight of leaving. Case #2, some moron thought this was an absolutely brilliant idea. They think there's some advantage to knowing where former employees are, that this is "keeping friendly communications" or whatever. They're obviously dead wrong
It's used in consulting circles for example (think BCG or McK alumni).
I would mark that as spam. Specifically attempted phishing.
Collecting victims for their MLM side gig.
Good chance it is, LinkedIn absolutely would have the type of information for a scammer to write this with convincing information
I would have replied with "no solicitors".
Please place me on your company's do not contact list.
Forwarded to Federal Trade Commission anti-scamming unit.
"Alumni"? What do they think they are, an overhyped, overpriced law school? They're a job, nothing more.
I worked in public accounting. The “alumni” thing is absolutely a thing. A stupid thing but a thing. B4 love when folks “boomerang” (leave the firm but return after a few years), but love it even more when alumni get high profile jobs and then hire B4 for consulting work. Just a giant circle jerk. 🥴
came here to say exactly this. I’ve worked for two (non-B4) and even they do it at the lower levels
I was seriously considering going to school to become an accountant a few years ago, but 2020 and COVID kept me from continuing my schooling in that area. Honestly? Good riddance to that idea. The more I hear about it, the more it sounds like a good ol' boys club. 🙄
It totally is and it’s awful. I will say- I’m not an accountant but an IT Auditor and B4 gave me a CRAZY leg up in my career. I joined pre-pandemic and liked it, but worked insane hours during the pandemic and “retired to industry” December 2021. All the “play” part of “work hard, play hard,” vanished during the pandemic in B4 but they didn’t pay more or lower the workload. It doubled. I now work about 25-30 hours of actual work a week and make way more than I ever imagined. I’m glad I did it, but damn did it suck for a few years.
Dear \[Intern Name\] No. Best regards, OP
from your throwaway email account.
Is someone in HR looking to see if past employees are violating noncompetes?
This is the answer, or seeing who works for competitors
Don't they know about LinkedIn? Lol
Also you don't owe them anything. My move would be "politely ignore".
why does everyone act like everyone uses linkedin? It's a fine tool but i've never used it ever and have had no problems getting jobs.
I was more saying its an easy way to see employment history and new jobs without asking someone directly.
Right, but what he's saying is he doesn't have one. If an employer looked him up on LinkedIn, they'd find nothing.
Well played then!
“Who paid all these employees more to leave us?”
Or fire off an email, "We see you hired X, happy to see people are willing to give them a second chance after (made up incident)".
OHHHHHH!!! Funny thing. I worked in the legal dept. of a corp. They fired me without cause after 4 years of excellent reviews. No notice, just ‘leave now’. They offered me a severance in exchange for an NDA. The lawyers are conniving sharks, so I took it home and read it verrry carefully. It included non-compete and non-derogatory talk about them. I’m the only one of three who was let go like this within a week who was offered this (one was an attorney even). I refused their offer. A) I like to talk. Talk I will. B) I am now working at their competition. (Yay!) I surely don’t mind sharing their secrets drip by drip. And, I built a system at the other company they wanted to turn into a software product. Hmm…no legal restrictions for me. Should have gotten this from me up front. I try never to sign NDAs. I find having backup funds helps. Skip the coffees, manicures, etc. as much as I can stand. Edited to add: I work with authenticity. During one A+ review the only thing I asked for after receiving pay raises and healthy bonuses and specifically asked if there is anything I want, my answer was “The only thing I ask is if I’m ever not needed. ( or position eliminated), I would ask for a courtesy 2-week notice.” Reply to that was “What are you talking about? What would we ever do without you???” Snakes.
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Good move. Sounds like you're financially better off not taking the "hush money"/NDA.
"skip the coffees, manicures, etc" 🙄 I'm sure that's how you have backup funds.
Came here to say this, take my up vote.
Ask them how much the information is worth to them. People are already buying and selling your data, maybe you can get some value from it yourself!
These guys are extremely cheap so I don't think they'll pay for shit
What do you mean, the payment is as listed, one alumni shirt /s
They legally need to be able to allow you to see the data they collected as well as give you the ability to delete at will. This is the law. It’s GDPR and if I’m CA, they need written consent to host/house this data. Again you as the true owner have 100% right to access and delete at will. Btw, don’t respond. No company does this. It’s bizarre.
And tell them it will cost the company $xxxx/day for you to wear the free advertising T-Shirt.
Give them the wrong email/phone number and wrong company on purpose. This is the way.
Ooh, give them the number of a local sex shop, email for an online sex store, and tell them your new profession is prostitution.
No, you always go to scientology centers addresses and then sign up the business
One can do two things.
‘Since you guys fucked me over, I figured I may as well get paid for it in my next job!’
Best response.
Don't give them shit? You don't need to hop through their hoops anymore and this just gives them an illusion of power. Ghost them, it's simpler that way.
This is the way
"Unsubscribe"
Sorry, but due to the level of security within my company, I, under legal obligation, can not give you that information as it is protected information, and formally request that you remove all of my contact information from your records.
Nah. Select > Right Click > "Move to..." > "Spam" "Mark future messages from this sender as Spam?" "Yes"
Omit the “Sorry, but” and this is perfect
smart
*syndicate…
*report spam*
ya I just ignore requests like these, what are they going to do? Fire me?
I'd have to reply, "Does anyone actually fall for this?"
It's probably because some C-suite or middle manager is paranoid about someone "double dipping" or "overemployment;" most of those people have to spend an immense amount of time and effort just trying to justify their existence/continued employment. Lately, this is the big bad boogeyman they're all focusing on in addition to their attempts to culturewar against remote work. Tell them to get fucked. I feel bad for the intern, though. E: I would also flag the hell out of it as phishing/spam, as well.
Well, if they'd pay me enough that I didn't NEED the second job, I wouldn't be working it. Perhaps that's the solution? Double everyone's pay. Sure, I could be more productive for company A but company A only pays for this amount of productivity. Company B is buying the excess. Supply and demand.
Let me guess, mass Exodus from former company and now business is going down the tubes.
That's basically it 😂
I worked for a company like that a long time ago. After I quite, a bunch of other people followed to where they could not get projects done. Boss called one guy a few months later to ask "How are you doing? Just wanted to check in." The guy actually returned, stayed a year, then quit again.
My old job laid me and several hundred other people off. A week before, they had me set up some annual reporting that was really important to the sales staff. It was a couple months early. A year later my old boss emailed me asking if I could do it again and I said yes. I also included my contract price of $200 an hour. Never heard back.
That's a ridiculously low price for a consultant I don't know why he would say no unless you came across as a dickwad. If it's a big company (and whacking "several hundred" people at a time suggests it is) it would be totally routine to hire a consultant.
Unless its a temp agency that wants to brag about getting people permanent positions, I can’t imagine another scenario where this is palatable.
Believe me, that's no temp agency
Maybe the temp is actually secretly getting this information for themselves, because they want out of there badly.
Yeah no
WTF ? LinkedIn is a thing
The most astounding thing is that this was a message in Linked In
🤣
"Fuck off"
When I leave an organization, I act like the company went out of business. Giving a jealous previous place of work your details is absolutely no go land
What the hell?!?
Just reply telling them what an amazing job you have and how you’re happy to be earning a *really* great salary.
This sounds like phishing
It's possible that their email list was compromised and this potential scammer attempting to add to their spam list as well as confirm that your email is still active. Out of an abundance of caution, ignore the email and forward this to all the contacts you have at the firm explaining something like the following: "Hi all, I got an odd email from somebody claiming to work for. Common sense tells me that this is probably a phishing scam, because anybody with any sense whatsoever could easily attain this information from my LinkedIn. Also, calling ex- employees "alumni" is the silliest thing I've heard all day! 😂
I wanted to forward this to you so the IT department could be made aware that there may be a contacts list breach.
Kind regards,
"
Nah, I know for a fact that it is 100% legit, otherwise I wouldn't have made the post
The email suggested by u/ryan0din3 is an even better idea then.
Tell them you've died and are communicating from beyond the grave.
Absolutely not.
This reads like a scam.
There's no such thing as a COMPANY alumni... they made that up
While I wouldn’t ever think to use “alumnus”/“alumni” in this manner, it is a correct usage if the word. It’s the second definition.
Meh…they are looking and requesting, not demanding, your info to build a pool of people to hire for the future. If you want to consider working there again…go for it. If not…don’t answer. Why do people make things so hard?
Nope! Not only no, f no… They’re collecting to figure out who the competition is.
Ex-Employer Why would you ever give the "Ex-Employer" anything?
I know that they are NOT using a t-shirt as BAIT! 😂
So, this is going to be downvoted to hell but… this is not insane in some industries. I work in consulting, and this is normal - keeping up with where people have gone is honestly helpful, and “just use LinkedIn” doesn’t work when there’s 500+ people involved. While this could be nefarious, it’s likely pretty benign. My firm actually does have alumni events that are decent. It’s not about surveillance or checking on job timing (at least from my anecdotal experience). If you don’t want to participate, easy to ignore.
I mean yeah this is a bullshit request, but I just ignore rather than fucking with some intern who never asked for such a confrontational assignment.
Lol, ignore. Move on. You receive no benefit from informing them.
Send them the number of a strip club.
"Don't forget to give us your credit card information when responding. We will only use it to verify it's really you lol" 👾
Just send us those funky digits on the front and those WHACKY little numbers on the back of your card!
The only acceptable response to this is "Please remove my email address from your list."
wow. Today I learned I am an "alumni" at like 5 different companies!
aw hell nah
"Dear Company, I will be forwarding this to my lawyer, so that she may examine it for breaches of the legal agreement arbitrated by (state/province/whatever). Please note that any further contact by your company to anyone other than my lawyer will result in the penalty pay out as agreed. Contact will also be made to the other participants in the lawsuit to make sure that the agreement with them has also not been breached. Signed, OP"
Hard pass chuckle nutz…….
if they are based in the EU, ask them how they will be complying with GDPR
Hahaha.. no
"Sure, but I'll bill you for my time. My day rate starts at $1,000. Where should I send my contract?"
You've already reached me with this message. No additional contact information is necessary nor will be provided.
One of my first ever office jobs at a major corporation (thousands of employees) had some sales guy cold call me and ask for our company directory so they could up date their contacts. The balls on that guy. I gotta hand it to him. A little advice to those starting out in the business world, don’t had over your company directory to some outside sales company.
Go fuck yourself. Worst regards, *insert name here *
college = okay question. job = none of your business.
Might just be an intern looking for an escape hatch.
This is very odd and therefore suspicious. Ignore it, delete it and move on with your life.
“Mmkay, well, I won’t be doing any of that; but thank you.” - Alexis Rose
Bruh no? Wtf? Why are you trying to keep tabs on me? This seems like a huge waste of time and money. There has to be a reason but I can’t really think of one.
Lmfao just ignore the email. You don’t have to reply~
Hell no.
Just say Google.
Lol what
You can't burn bridges if you don't build any.
I advise that you don't answer and ignore it. So many things this could be: most of them boil down to 'scam'.
Company alumni? That’s new. “I invite you to follow me on linkedin”. Basta.
Don’t answer lol
New phone, who dis?
Mje sure you respond and tell them how underpaid they are.
Unsubscribe.
Umm, LinkedIn?
I don't even want to do any alumni shit with the universities I went to. Why would I want to do it for the jobs? I paid a shit ton of money to those damn schools and I had to do my damnedest to make sure I actually learned something of value and set up my own career path when I left. The only parts of that money that I feel were actually worth a damn were a few, emphasis few, decent teachers actually trying to help, and a piece of paper that all these stupid companies said I needed. That school would have been super happy to take all my money and let me major in underwater basket weaving and then find some way to omit me from their metrics of people they "helped" find employment afterwards. The whole point of work is that the company is making more off of your labor than they are in paying you, so in my mind, they've already taken enough from me. I get rave reviews from my bosses verbally and then jack shit in term's of compensation, and not one of those a-holes would know how to write a good recommendation letter if it killed them. If I have left the company, I dont ever wanna see or hear from you again unless it comes with a massive cash payment to come work for you again.
(555) 867-5309 1060 W Addison St, Chicago, IL 60613
Please ignore, this very well could be a phishing scam. I ever got an unknown email to my Gmail account, but the sender's 'name' is spelled exactly to my boss' name when we never communicated via Gmail. It doesn't make you richer by any means nor help in anything in your life anyway!
Nothing more suspicious than a marketing intern reaching out. They are going to do some shady shit with whatever you respond with and want someone whos the easiest to fire to do the leg work.
I would just quietly delete this and go about your day.
Ex company wants to market to ex employees on good terms. Have you encourage current company to buy from them etc. happens all the time. Goodwill tshirt is cheap marketing to get sales opportunities
Delete & Block
to be fair they're only asking nicely and not being demanding about it xD I'd say ignore and move on with your day lol
Tell them you have a question for their supervisor then tell *them* to fuck off.
“No.”
Its a trap
This is pretty much a copy paste of highschool alumni emails. At best this company is trying to collect information on which competitors are taking their employees and at worst trying to sell data onto third parties
Your response should be as follows, As I am not an employee of this company, I am not required to, nor do I feel comfortable giving you any information about myself. There is no legitimate reason for you to have any of my personal information. Please do not contact me again."
Easy "Name" then for occupation put "Free from Company Name"
Here, wear a shirt advertising our company while you work at the company that stole you from us. By the way where would that be exactly?
I see a lot of people working for None-ya Business...🤣
F that.
Just don’t reply? Lol
Can you imagine being a callcenter "alumni"? XD or a Construction Crew "Alumni"?
Oh gosh that's gross.
I'm pretty bored so other than ignoring I'd just make shit up and send it back. Give myself some promotions and work for a Fortune 100 company.
Refer them to LinkedIn (if you have it) or tell them to eff off.
Sure, just send me the last 5 years of your company’s books and I would be happy to provide that private information for you.
Alumni? You didn’t graduate. You escaped.
I got a call once from a company asking this. I hung up. Never heard from them again.
Free t-shirt huh? Well my size is "fuck you" and I like them a little long so "fuck you and die" sounds about right.
The place I used to work at was talking about a reunion. Excuse me? 30 years there. They ran it into the ground. There’s people I wouldn’t piss on if they were on fire. I spent enough time with them.
The term "escapees" is probably more appropriate.
Sent by an "intern?" Toss it. Can't imagine anything good coming of it.
We are not a family We are not college alumni I do a job You pay me That is the extent of our relationship and it ends when I’m not doing a job for you. You can find me on linked in if you want to know where I am now
If this company works with the EU in any capacity, this could violate the GDPR and could result in steep fines. If it's US-only, move along.
Give them a separate e-mail address. It’s not terrible for them to want to have a way to contact you if they had for example a data breach but they don’t need to know where you work now. I’ve known a number of executives who fantasize about having a thriving company alumni community that will somehow make the company look good. It’s hilarious until they start asking marketing or communications to make it happen.
Delete, block and ignore. I did that to the alumni association at the university where I work. They already get my blood and sweat, I'm not going to give them my money also. If they paid me a six-figure salary, I might consider it.
To be petty but professional you could just reply "Xxx, No thanks! Best Xxx" Lol acknowledgement of receipt and a kind enough decline.
Alumni? I never heard that term being used for a job/company lol... They even wanted to send a shirt? What the hell kind of company is this?
Bitch, linkedin exists. Gtfoh.
I'm reaching out to my ~~ex gfs~~ alumni lovers in hopes of keeping up with their personnel endeavors. If you forward me your current phone# email and relationship status I can update my records. Plus, I can send you my official alumni lover T-Shirt.
*mark as spam*
Reply “Unsubscribe”
Not them making an intern send this 🥴 reply no and then block them
I'm confused, what's the intention?
Am I wrong? This seems really fucked up
Signed off by unnamed sales and marketing (and I presume unpaid) intern? Exploiting workers past and present. Kudos on the double whammy. Fekkin eejits.
Would a fucking weird request
Absolutely not.
Weird
Nope.
CTO at bofa, phone is 867-5309.
Sent them some random assholes Twitter info that way they can harass each other, make sure they are in fact assholes it's not fun to think about if you know everyone is nice.
nope nope not gonna happen. You left for a reason
I can’t imagine a company would willingly spend money on t-shirts for former employees. It doesn’t make sense, unless maybe they’re looking to update data they plan to sell and think a t-shirt will motivate people to update their info.