[Dogamondo]

I used to work in IT recruitment, and had CV's coming at me every day. One particular candidate popped up in my database search who possessed the rare skill that I was looking for. Her last CV in our system was 3 years old. Anyway, I called her up and asked if she might be still in that field. It turns out the call was made in likely timing. She had just been divorced and explained that she was looking to get back into the workforce after being a homemaker for the past 3 years. I added a note to the call log for other recruiters who may see her record saying "Great candidate, gap in work history due to marriage. Now divorced and wanting to get back get back into the industry. Definitely worth interviewing!".

Now lets imagine that the agency I worked for was sold/aquired at some point and eventually resulted in a mailout being performed on the database.

You can imagine the result if the comment field was accidentally included in the mail-merge, or some substring of it;

"Dear Great candidate, gap in work history due to marriage. Now divorced and wanting to get back get back into the industry, have you considered funeral insurance?"

Pattio11's point is quite valid.

Edit: Sorry, hit the wrong 'reply' button. This post was meant for the parent