Crazy guy applying for a teaching job

Work Teaching English in Taiwan
#1

My school recently advertised an open teaching position, and I was amazed by the lack of effort some of the responders put into their applications. This one is my favorite:

Applicant:
email title: Hey, should I send you my resume?

Please post your e-mail address if you want me to send you my
resume’ ,thanks a million

He sent me an email asking for my email address…hmm…quality choice here…didn’t leave a name either.

My response:

To whom it may concern,

Thank you for your interest. The position has already been filled. For your reference, this kind of application generally isn’t appreciated, and you will have trouble finding a teaching job if you communicate in this way.

Applicant’s response:

title: Your a funny guy!!

You have a mental problem !!! You are nuts !! first of all
if someone sends you a resume,you say thank you, you moron!
how dare you tell me that kind of communication isn’t appreciated !!
you are a nut case,VERY FUNNY. I suggest you show more respect to
people before you get yourself hurt, and you write :to who it may concern
ha ha are you to stupid to read my name ?? You need to see a psych doctor!!

‘:loco:’

I’ve been getting the giggles reading this for the last couple of days. The scary thing is that this guy will probably get a job here eventually!

#2

:cluck:

#3

That is crazy, you should send him a link to this post (and promote Forumosa) , then it might get LITTLE interesting…

#4

I didn’t know you could go all the way thorugh college and still use that many exclamation marks in your writing. My hunch is that he wil get a job, then be fired or mistreated because he is obviously crazy or at least a complete retard, and then come to some forum like this one slandering the school, its administration, and his evil students. What’s even more sad is that he is probnably not the only one.

#5

[quote=“jwbrunken”][quote=“dangerousapple”]
title: Your a funny guy!!

You have a mental problem !!! You are nuts !! first of all
if someone sends you a resume,you say thank you, you moron!
how dare you tell me that kind of communication isn’t appreciated !!
you are a nut case,VERY FUNNY. I suggest you show more respect to
people before you get yourself hurt, and you write :to who it may concern
ha ha are you to stupid to read my name ?? You need to see a psych doctor!!
[/quote]

I didn’t know you could go all the way thorugh college and still use that many exclamation marks in your writing. blah blah blah What’s even more sad is that he is probnably not the only one.[/quote]

Gotta be careful when you get critical of others. You’ll be in that funny position to see you aren’t any better. :smiley:

#6

[quote=“Namahottie”][quote=“jwbrunken”][quote=“dangerousapple”]
title: Your a funny guy!!

You have a mental problem !!! You are nuts !! first of all
if someone sends you a resume,you say thank you, you moron!
how dare you tell me that kind of communication isn’t appreciated !!
you are a nut case,VERY FUNNY. I suggest you show more respect to
people before you get yourself hurt, and you write :to who it may concern
ha ha are you to stupid to read my name ?? You need to see a psych doctor!!
[/quote]

I didn’t know you could go all the way thorugh college and still use that many exclamation marks in your writing. blah blah blah What’s even more sad is that he is probnably not the only one.[/quote]

Gotta be careful when you get critical of others. You’ll be in that funny position to see you aren’t any better. :smiley:[/quote]
:fedora:

#7

Is there an advertisement on a website where there is a form to fill out?
Perhaps there is no attachment function.

Anyway, his response to you was not professional, so you’re definitely better of without him.

#8

I can relate. Some years ago, I placed an online ad for a part-time essay grading position. I got a lot of great applications. I sent notes to each applicant to say thanks for applying, and that I’d get back to them in a few days with some kind of response. I left my phone number.

In the meantime, I interviewed the best candidate on paper and offered him the job. One guy called me and left two or three messages over the course of a day. When I called him back, I told him the truth, which was that he didn’t get the job. He was nice but seemed a bit stunned, and we ended the conversation.

Not twenty minutes later, I get a nasty e-mail, telling me that I’m a liar, that I’m irresponsible, that I’m everything that’s wrong with foreigners in Taiwan. The courtesy e-mail I’d sent after receiving everyone’s application was apparently an offer of a job (though none of the other dozen applicants took it that way).

Certainly one of the more bizarre episodes in my hiring career here in Taiwan. Poor guy was a giant victim in his own mind, and horribly offended at not being hired.

#9

Hire him and then quickly fire him. You have the power.

#10

Haha. That last response just sounds too funny to be true.

Are you sure someone isn’t having some fun with you? Got any coworkers who break out laughing for no reason lately?

#11

Actually, I get these kind of applications on a regular basis. It’s astonishing. This guy was definitely the weirdest though.

#12

Then there is the guy that applied for a job with my company as warehouse supervisor. I also reviewed the many resumes received and wrote to all who had sent one in that I would review them all and contact those on the “short list” for an interview. Before the short list was compiled a guy walks in the door without an appointment (U-Hual truck parked out front) and asked me when his first day would be. He explained that he had received my email and had now moved his family into our company area from across the state. He had already leased a house for a year and was ready to begin work immediately. Security escorted him from the building but, to this day, I really don’t think he understood. In advance, I might add that, no - he didn’t make the short list.

#13

I think it was this guy…

Say hoooooooooooooooo…Hardo Gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!