{"id":98104,"date":"2016-07-07T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=98104"},"modified":"2016-07-08T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:28:05","slug":"microsofts-cringe-worthy-recruitment-email-goes-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/98104-microsofts-cringe-worthy-recruitment-email-goes-viral","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft&#8217;s cringe-worthy recruitment email goes viral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a young person there is nothing more cringe-inducing than an older person (or in this case a multi-billion dollar corporation) trying to speak in their lingo.<\/p>\n<p>This is the case for Microsoft&#8217;s new recruitment email which is doing the rounds on social media, featuring lines such as\u00a0&#8220;Hey Bae Intern&#8221; and &#8220;Hella Noms&#8221; (food).<\/p>\n<p>The last sentence is our favourite though, with the email signing off: &#8220;Hell yes to getting lit on Monday night&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full email below:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">My roommate received this email from a Microsoft recruiter today. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/90Qwr78eGO\">pic.twitter.com\/90Qwr78eGO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Burtchaell (@pburtchaell) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pburtchaell\/status\/750494339860615169\">July 6, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Have you ever received a cringe-inducing email from work? Let us know in the comments below and in our forums.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Gaming News<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Liquid-cooling versus air-cooling for your gaming PC\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/96705-liquid-cooling-versus-air-cooling-for-your-gaming-pc.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Liquid-cooling versus air-cooling for your gaming PC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to We made more money from our game than if we had real jobs in South Africa \u2013 Runestorm\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/97092-we-made-more-money-from-our-game-than-if-we-had-real-jobs-in-south-africa-runestorm.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">We made more money from our game than if we had real jobs in South Africa \u2013 Runestorm<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition revealed \u2013 release date, specifications and pricing\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/97990-nvidia-geforce-gtx-1060-founders-edition-revealed-release-date-specifications-and-pricing.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 Founders Edition revealed \u2013 release date, specifications and pricing<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the most cringe-worthy corporate email of all time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":98106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[20210,19547,91],"class_list":["post-98104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-cringe","tag-email","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98108,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98104\/revisions\/98108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}