• V0ldek@awful.systems
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    5 months ago

    Not using gmail for personal email hurts me both socially and professionally, & has probably kept me out of the running for jobs

    Wait, I’m sorry, what? Can you elaborate on this?

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      5 months ago

      I’ve had interviewers send me google docs locked to a google account, sent to my personal email which they probably assume is a redirect to Gmail in the background. And then when I write back and say, hi, thanks, could you share this a way that I don’t need a google account, they get extremely skeptical. These days I have a stub Google account I keep around specifically for places that are going to force me to use Google, but even then I have to write back and say “could you provide access to this email address and not that one“, and again, the interviewers get weird and sometimes don’t write back.