When you're a city's "Communicator of the Year" and have hailed yourself as a "passionate advocate" for job-seekers, you probably ought not blast one of those job-seekers in a snide, dismissive e-mail. Because the Internet hates that sort of thing. But that's what's happened to Kelly Blazek, who runs a popular online job bank for marketing professionals in Cleveland. Blazek's response to an e-mail and LinkedIn request from Diana Mekota, a 26-year-old planning to move to Cleveland this summer, has made the rounds on Reddit, Buzzfeed and other viral hotspots after Mekota posted it to her Imgur account. And the resulting backlash is yet another cautionary tale about how posting something mean-spirited online can come back to haunt you in the social media age.
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Nasty response to a job-seeker goes viral for Cleveland marketing pro
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Kelly Blazek runs a 7,300-member online job bank
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She called 26-year-old Diana Mekota's request to join "tacky"
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On Thursday, Blazek had deleted her blog, Twitter account and apologized
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