What a frustrated job seeker thinks of the current ad industry

It seems like the current job market is starting to get to some people. While most people have just sat back and voiced their displeasure about the current state of the market to themselves or their closest friends and family. One person has voiced their displeasure over the internet. I recently saw this story on AgencySpy (www.mediabistro/agencyspy). It appears that this anonymous person decided to take advantage the website's tips box to voice their frustration for the current state of the ad industry. Here is their rant courtesy of the website:

“Dear Ad Industry: A slow economy does not entitle you to treat job candidates like crud on the bottom of your shoe, especially when you’re the ones putting out the want ads and/or contacting us. None of us expect red carpet treatment. But it makes your agency look really, really bad when your HR / recruiting staff doesn’t even show rudimentary professional courtesy. Especially in cases when we are highly qualified for the job in question, and have jumped through multiple hoops at your request. Things shake around really fast in this business, and the creative you’re treating like garbage today might be a highly desirable candidate in a couple of years. Don’t you want to have a positive relationship developed? That’s not a hard concept to get. Yet still, you all treat people this abysmally bad, and you wonder why nobody decent wants to work in advertising anymore.”

To those of you who think that this anonymous rant was written by me, I hate to burst your bubble, but it was not. While I can sympathize with some of the points in this anonymous person's rant. I can only hope that this is an isolated incident and that the industry as a whole has not entered down this treacherous road for its job candidates.