You know what I hate? I hate it when some dumbass sends an unsolicited email to me with his resume attached fishing for a job. What I usually do is write back nicely and explain that we are a 2 person shop, blah blah. Or I’ll occasionally spam them back with my own solicitation to do their website at a great price.
I solicit back because anyone who trolls the internet looking for companies to spam clearly has no clue and they never have their own site, either.
So I get one of these fishing emails from some dude looking for a clothing job. Well, we don’t do clothing and I tell him so. I also spam him back with an offer to do a portfolio site since he doesn’t have one.
So, what does dumbass do? He sends me not one, but two emails back telling me first how “VERY STRONG” his graphic design background is and he’s available to help us if we need it and second “he’s got his portfolio up at blahblah.com – just search for his name!”
The reason he’s a dumbass is that he is spamming looking for work and he doesn’t even understand that using a portfolio site is not the same as having your own site. He can’t even provide a link to his portfolio, either. No, he tells the potential companies to ‘search for his name’. Gods.
Good luck with that.