We’ll Never Need the Draft Again
Our parents had to worry about being drafted to serve in Vietnam when they were young adults. The military has a much better strategy these days. Instead, now they try to trick people to enlist with strategically placed ads on CareerBuilder. For example, you login to your account, and before it takes you to your profile, it’s shows you a form with most of your contact information filled in, and all you have to do is click the largest button on the screen and an Army recruiter will contact you personally. To continue to where you expected, you need to locate the smaller, “No, just continue” elsewhere on the page.
“You know, I was just trying to log in to my CareerBuilder.com account, but instead, I think I’ll join the military…”
The site does the same thing during the job application process. It’s actually worse there, because you’ve just been through the process of filling in a bunch of forms, and this one pops up at the end. If you don’t look carefully, you’ll just fill in the information and submit it.
On the upside, CareerBuilder.com will actually let you delete the account straight from their website. If you go and edit your contact information, there is a convenient link to delete your account. Nice and simple. Now was that so hard Monster?