The Tormenting Tale of TimesJobs

Important: Please read my earlier post on Timesjobs.com. The reference to context will then be simpler.

My experience with Timesjobs.com has been vexatious. It has almost turned out to be like "The Exorcism of Emily Rose". If Emily saw ghosts at 3am in the morning, I would often wake up with the nightmare of Timesjobs.com personnel (mostly a Sonia Oberoi or Rekha Singh) asking me if "I am in the right job" or someone else offering me a "Citibank Credit Card"

Yes, a credit card indeed. Timesjobs.com itself is out of job or providing jobs and hence has started selling credit cards - IRONY, I surmise.

All my attempts to "UNSUBSCRIBE" from their job alert and mailing services have failed, to the extent that I wrote to YAHOO to please have my email address either deleted or changed (I will post a screen-shot of a reply from YAHOO SECURITY TEAM in my next post).

However, I still made a brave, despondent attempt to "UNSUBSCRIBE" from their mailing service. I certainly didn't need a credit card (it is against my morality to use one), and most certainly not a CITIBANK credit card.

I received an email from Timesjobs on 14th September about Citibank credit card. I have received such emails innumerable TIMES earlier. I do the mundane task of "UNSUBSCRIBING" every time, like I did one this time.

I used their "most unefficient" option given in the email footer. I clicked the "UNSUBSCRIBE" link. It takes me to some page where I enter my email address, and click the submit option. I pray to the Vighnaharta to give me success this time, 'please absolve me from this great torturous vighna called Timesjobs'.

Next page tells me that my email will be removed within 24 hours. I give a sigh of relief assorted with a groan of suspicion. I go to sleep. The exorcism of Timesjobs.com still haunts me though.

I thought Ganpati Bappa had listened to me this time. No mails from Timesjobs.com for a week. However, my alleviation was shortlived. I found an email from Timesjobs.com notoriously smiling at me. 24 hours had not transpired yet, even after 10 days i.e. 240 hours. There is something seriously wrong with Timesjobs.com. Or perchance I was obsessively sanguine about myself.

I cannot fathom this "saga of negligience" and the "anecdote of affliction", literally. There is nothing or no one there at Timesjobs.com, I apprise; just these automated emails. All the back-office staff had possibly used Naukri or Monster to search for jobs elsewhere and abandon TIMESJOBS. I can understand their aggravation.

However, I still don't know the solution to all this.

Perhaps, I should write back to the Yahoo Security team.