Monster getting desperate?
On several occasions over the last month, a large, tacky Monster.com truck has parked in front of our SF office, and proceeded to blast loud music, to the point where our front offices were rendered unfit for working. On the latest occasion, a few of our techies asked the driver to turn down the music, which he was nice enough to do.
He actually turned out to be a sterling fellow, who clearly felt bad about what he’d been asked to do. He was good enough to allow us to photocopy his marching orders (that’s him holding the fax in photo), which are excerpted below:
“For San Francisco the concept is that we want to make sure this address is on the loop drivers take and if they can be close by during the morning commute, lunch time (noon thru 2) and 5pm-6pm, that would be ideal. For the rest of the time, please drive through high-pedestrian traffic city locations. If you can get a picture of the truck parked in front of the Craigslist address, that would be great.”
Is it possible that Monster is “green” with envy, now that our job boards alone receive more employment-related traffic than all of monster.com?
April 17th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Monster is a horrible service. They claim to get people jobs-wrong. All they do is spam your e-mail with job “matches”.
April 18th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I can not believe that sent him to your office! And that truck is very unattractive.
April 23rd, 2008 at 7:17 am
That is hilarious! You would think that a company such a Monster, wouldn’t stoop to that level. HA HA HA You guys rock!
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:38 pm
Monster isn’t as good as Craig’s List - except for one thing. Spam. I can go through Monster’s listings and expect a fairly minimal amount of it, although there’s some. CL Jobs, on the other hand, is overrun with spammers.
Right now, you guys are neck and neck with Monster, so far as I’m concerned. Do something about the spam (PLEASE do something about the spam), and you’ll go way, way ahead.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
hmmm. Do you think that is why Ebay had their listing promo in April and for the first time ever it was sponsored by someone? It was sponsored by MONSTER.COM, woweee
http://pages.ebay.com/promo/10centPS/