elfs | One Other Thing (Reply)

From: (Anonymous)

One other thing that can definitely hurt you, if you apply for work professionally under the same name that you write under here (EMS) your online life can definitely come back to haunt you. Expect any employer, in addition to the background check and drug scan, to do at least a minimum Google on your name. Since your writing name is unique they'll hit all of this real quick and while you'd think such wonderful (and it is wonderful) creativity should be a huge positive in the programming arena, actually it scares the straights.

The thank you note is always a good idea, and you were fortunate to get a reply that might have even been true. Had it been me, I might have taken a different tact in it because you can really only fire this arrow once and have asked what skills you could brush up on in hopes of future employment possibilities with this employer that you liked so much. That might have given you more useful information, but I wouldn't suggest going back to bug them about that now. You pretty much get one question, and you've used yours.

--DB_Story