Nicole in D.C.

While I was job hunting, I signed up for a lot of different things – Twitter feeds, e-mail alerts, listing services… you name it. Many of the subscriptions went away shortly after I unsubscribed from them, or unfollowed them on Twitter.

The one resource I used the least has also proved to be the most annoying – Vault.com. I originally subscribed to Vault a few years back when I was looking for paid internships, but found absolutely nothing, and resubscribed during the Big Job Hunt of ’09.

I’ve unsubscribed dozens of times, yet I continue to receive emails. First, the unsubscribe feature was down for a few weeks. I’d go to unsubscribe through the bottom of an email, but I’d receive an error message every time. Instead, I used the “Spam” function for the first time in Gmail, but obviously to no avail.

After dozens more emails the spam filter didn’t catch, the unsubscribe feature began working and I found out I wasn’t even subscribed to a list. At one point, I even took a screen shot showing just that.

Now, I’ve resorted to setting a filter to automatically delete every email from Vault.com that comes into my Gmail account. Let’s see if that works… If not, I’ll have to resort to writing a much more scathing blog post about Vault.