WRITING: TEOTWAWKI fiction — It happened in Church – Chapter Thirty Six – Focusing on initial out

Friday, April 25, 2008

It happened in Church – October 19, 1962
Chapter Thirty Six – Focusing on initial out

It Started In Church – October 19, 1962
http://www.itstartedinchurch.com

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LINKEDIN: Old messages appear ‘gone’

Friday, April 25, 2008

I’m a paying customer of LinkedIn. (Not that that seems to matter much.)

I send a few emails to folks from time to time in support of their jobsearch efforts. (Offer help, cite some resources, give a few urls, and wish them bona fortuna.) I used to just call up an old one and steal the usual passages. Then, customize a little and shoot it off. LinkedIn doesn’t offer drafts or templates.

When I went to do that, (I guess for the first time since the redesign.) SHAZAAM, there not where they used to be.

Maybe they’ve just moved?

I read the LinkedIn faqs and it looks like they went to the bit bucket.

Argh!!

Copying an email to yourself isn’t even a future workaround because the email is kept in the LinkedIn playpen.

Sooo, ti seems like you have to cut and paste an email to yourself to compensate.

Arghh!

So I shot this off to “Customer Service”: (BY THE WAY, did anyone notice that ‘customer service’ is now a new and different domain from LinkedIn? That is ‘linkedin.custhelp.com’! Outsourced to a vendor in India maybe?)

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I used to be able to see my old messages that I wrote, received archived, invitations and such. Since the redesign, I can’t find any of that. Are they now gone?

It would have been nice to give a ‘head’s up’. So I could have saved them. As a paying customer, I don’t expect surprises. If I was a freeloader, I’d have less of a squawk.

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Upon submitting, you have to put in contact information? Interesting. This leads credence to the ‘outsourced customer service’ impression. Why would they need that input again?

Argh!

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