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El Pollito

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Mail Merge Mishaps

Post by El Pollito » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:18 am

Just got a mass mail from a T6 student that called me the wrong gender and asked about a practice that my firm doesn't do at all.

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Re: Mail Merge Mishaps

Post by Thirteen » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:19 am

El Pollito wrote:Just got a mass mail from a T6 student that called me the wrong gender and asked about a practice that my firm doesn't do at all.
Bird law?

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Re: Mail Merge Mishaps

Post by bwh8813 » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:20 am

El Pollito wrote:Just got a mass mail from a T6 student that called me the wrong gender and asked about a practice that my firm doesn't do at all.
Is that not good? :lol:

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Re: Mail Merge Mishaps

Post by Good Guy Gaud » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:20 am

Thirteen wrote:
El Pollito wrote:Just got a mass mail from a T6 student that called me the wrong gender and asked about a practice that my firm doesn't do at all.
Bird law?
:lol:

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Re: Mail Merge Mishaps

Post by tyroneslothrop1 » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:27 am

Yeah but if you send the email to everyone in the firm, for approximately half of the recipients, the gender will be correct. On second thought, I would use the male pronoun to reflect gender disparities in the equity partner ranks that exist due to sexyism.

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