![]() ![]() “The note I sent to Diana was rude, unwelcoming, unprofessional and wrong …,” she said in her e-mail. On Thursday, she appeared to have deleted her Twitter account and Wordpress blog. “I want my subscribers to feel like everyone is my little sister or brother, and I’m looking out for them.” “I’ve always been a passionate advocate for keeping talent in NE Ohio, and we have so much of it in the region,” she said in her acceptance speech. It started as a labor of love for the marketing industry, but somehow it also became a labor, and I vented my frustrations on the very people I set out to help.”īlazek was named 2013’s “Communicator of the Year” by Cleveland’s branch of the International Association of Business Communicators. “Creating and updating the Cleveland Job Bank listings has been my hobby for more than ten years. “I am very sorry to the people I have hurt,” she wrote. She repeated the statement in an email response to CNN, saying she has apologized to “everyone involved.” “I was again, hoping to join your very impressive job board but I understand you(r) reservations.”Īfter the posts went viral (spawning, for one, the obligatory Twitter parody account), Blazek on Wednesday e-mailed an apology to the Cleveland Plain-Dealer. “I apologize if this came off as arrogant or invasive as that was never my intention,” she wrote. She said she sent a LinkedIn request so Blazek could see her credentials because a friend told her not to send a resume. “I realize you told me to never write you again, but wanted to reach out as there has been a large miscommunication and I merely wanted to explain myself,” she wrote. She said she got Blazek’s response shortly afterward and, after composing herself, wrote a response. Mekota’s original e-mail, sent February 19, was a short message detailing her education, professional and volunteer activities and asking to join the 7,300-member jobs list. How social media can affect your job search She wrapped up with: “Don’t ever write me again.” Don’t ever reach out to senior practitioners again and assume their carefully curated list of connections is available to you, just because you want to build your network.” “You’re welcome for your humility lesson for the year. “I love the sense of entitlement in your generation,” she wrote, then continued. “Wow, I cannot wait to let every 26-year-old jobseeker mine my top-tier marketing connections to help them land a job.” “Your invite to connect is inappropriate, beneficial only to you, and tacky,” Blazek wrote, according to Mekota’s post. And the resulting backlash is yet another cautionary tale about how posting something mean-spirited online can come back to haunt you in the social media age. ![]()
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