If you’re applying for a job at a Welsh tourist attraction, it may be best not to have an email address that includes ‘atleastimnotwelsh’.
Ananova is reporting that 21 year old James Kettle blew his chances of securing the job we wanted in Wales with what may well be the worst job application ever.
As well as using an insulting email address, James sent his application to the wrong address.
The horticulture undergraduate sent it to Aberglasney Gardens, Carmarthenshire, instead of the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
A manager at Aberglasney replied: “It may be prudent to change your email address. It could have a detrimental effect on any career aspirations of working in Wales.”
James, a student at Pershore Agricultural College in Warwickshire, said: “I feel a right fool.”
When talking about the incident on 98.5 Sonshine FM this morning, one of the news team, Jarod Warwick, said something like, “Who didn’t have a weird email address as they were growing up?” Well, me for one. Email hadn’t been invented when I was growing up.
It got me thinking to my days playing around with CB Radio. I had some interesting ‘handles’ or ‘call signs’. Of those I can remember there was Black Swan, Commodore One and Apache 9 but I know there were others. Maybe my brain has chosen to forget the worst ones.
How about you? Have you had weird and wonderful email addresses or maybe you were into CB Radio back in the day and had an interesting handle or two. What other strange names have you attached to yourself?
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