E-Mail Blasting, Not Just a Job
August 25, 04 by kenrichToday, I was blessed with a new job role from my current employer. That job is the wonderful and exciting world of e-mail blasting. No, don’t worry faithful readers, I’m not talking about spamming the entire world. I’m talking about building and testing mail messages for an opt-in mailing list. Previously this job was handled by a lower-ranking employee who has recently quit and then given to another lower-ranking employee who has also recently quit.
Basically, I was the next man up on the totem pole and I am sooooooooooo happy to be stuck with this new role. Basically, I have been stuck in the dark ages of programming condemned to using classic ASP on IIS for the past 8 years or so. On the positive side, I did learn how to use Visual Studio .NET (of course I only use it for classic ASP also known as VBScript.) If this keeps up, my skills will get so out of date that I won’t be able to find a job anywhere.
And to top it all off, this means I’ll have to deal with another entire division of the company here (operations) with unlimited opportunity to make a big mistake and attract the anger of our fearless executives. Don’t be surprised if you see a job opening soon for a “e-mail blast operator” around the San Diego area in the near future.
