The Pradipta 416
So the funniest thing happened the other day (and as usual I’ve only just found the convenience to blog it). I was sitting working, minding my own business when I received yet another formulated mass post from a recruitment agent. Only this one was a little different..
I have a couple of Ruby on Rails position, wanted to know if you are interested?
Max Archie
Technical Recruiter
Prodigus Source
Cell: 219-669-9216
Phone: 312-235-2365
Max@prodigussource.com
Seems pretty normal on the face of it. Just a typical impersonal email recruiters send out to hundreds of “potential candidates” (read: anonymous list of farmed email addresses). However this agent forgot to use BCC instead of CC, and so 416 selected individuals all over the world were kindly supplied with each others email addresses.
So what did a group of complete strangers from all cultures and walks of life decide to do with this new found information? Well, for a while we laughed. And then we went a bit mad. And now you’ll find the Pradipta 416 all over the ‘net. Including, but not limited to, Twitter, FaceBook and a Google discussion group.
I love it. A community was born.
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About Me
I'm Cliff, some guy on a huge spinning rock flying through space. Somehow amongst all the spinning and the flying I manage to hold down a relatively good career as freelance software developer.
I'm a jack of all trades, master of some ;-)
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The Pradipta 416
