Employers Who Provide Cell Numbers to Candidates Angry Candidates Used Those Numbers
One of the best writers for the Wall Street Journal is Sarah Needleman. She writes a lot about employment-related issues and many of those focus on issues related to college students searching for internships and recent graduates hunting for entry level jobs. Yesterday's article was a beauty but surely read very differently to different readers. Perhaps that was the intent.
Sarah interviewed a number of employers and candidates about the emerging trend of college students and recent graduates using cell phone text messaging (SMS) abbreviations such as "thx" for "thanks" and "4u" for "for you" in their thank you letters and other correspondence to prospective employers and after they've been hired. Not surprisingly, the employers felt that such abbreviations were terrible while most of the students and recent grads understood that the employers didn't like it but also felt that those attitudes were dated.
Now I can understand why an employer wouldn't appreciate receiving a text message full of informal abbreviations as the employer would likely suspect that the candidate would then use the same types of abbreviations when communicating with clients and if the clients aren't likely to appreciate the abbreviations then the use of them will hurt the employer's business. But I was flabbergasted by a couple of the dislikes:
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I arrived late last night (actually, this morning at 2am) in Edmonton, Alberta for the retirement of Mark Messier's number 11 jersey by the Edmonton Oilers. 
I can't wait. Only two days until I fly from Minneapolis to Edmonton. Now that kind of a trip in February isn't normally a cause for celebration, but this trip will be because the occasion at the other end will be a celebration. On Tuesday, the Edmonton Oilers will retire the number 11 jersey of Mark Messier. Moose, as he's affectionately known to his fans, was one of the finest hockey players ever and an integral part of the 1980's Edmonton Oilers dynasty. That team had five of the greatest players ever to play the game: Wayne Gretzky, Jari Kurri, Mark Messier, Paul Coffey, and Grant Fuhr.
Much has been 
