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So here we are, brand-spanking new category, and already something else has cropped up: job searches.

Sweet holy Moses as if not having full time work were not stressful enough while living in the Bay Area during a recession with rental prices spiking, companies are posting slag like this on craigslist:

The Company Jigsaw (www.jigsaw.com) is quite simply unlike any other organization. We firmly established ourselves as one of the unique success stories of the Web 2.0 revolution. For the past 4 years Jigsaw has been leveraging user generated content to map the global business community. By doing so, we have created an online, collaborative business-contact marketplace where marketers, recruiters, and sales people can buy and trade third-party business contact information. Even the most world-weary VC’s applaud the paradigm shifting vision at the heart of the Jigsaw story:

“It’s always a mind blower when some startup fundamentally changes the rules in any category that is assumed to be mature.” Jeff Nolan, SAP Ventures

When I'm reading something online, somewhere in the ballpark of 3 buzzwords per sentence my right eye starts twitching uncontrollably, and this job ad produced what I think is foam from between my teeth. Who on earth thinks that something like this is a good idea to post? I don't know anything about this company and already it's my life's goal to destroy them from the inside and then jump up and down on the (literal) ashes until they go cold.