Dirty Little Secrets: Dave Mendoza

A lot has been said about the Recruiting Blog Awards that are just around the corner.  The Edge wrote a nice little holiday poem about them, but there's something you should know before you vote, and it has to do with Dave Mendoza.

See, there is no Dave Mendoza. 

It all started, four years ago, when certain unnamed agencies in the federal government (it's not that I won't name them - it's that they have been un-named!)  decided to create a website that could beat the Turing test.  These shady individuals, who were known to have connections with the P2 Masonic lodge scandal in Italy, knew that Website Awards were the key to victory in the battle over the forces of democracy.

If they could create a system that could fool the general public into voting for them for various web awards, the dark night of totalitarianistic, uh, darkness would fall over us like, dark, uh, night).

So DAVE was created  (DAVE stands for Dynamic Avatar for Voting Effectiveness), and given the last name Mendoza (get it - Men, Doza, as in tricking the brave men among us to take a nap and let his dark masters rule the night!).

The unsuspecting menace was first unleashed on an unsuspecting LinkedIn populace.  Today, everyone on LinkedIn is connected by at least two degrees to the DAVE machine. 

Blogs were next, as DAVE sought to repurpose the free-wheeling nature of the internet to inform you of important articles that were written by human beings locked away in the subterranean vaults underneath ERE headquartes in New York.

And now he (or shall we say it), wants your vote.  There's only one thing to do - if DAVE is nominated in the Third Party Recruiting category, you have to defeat his evil plans and vote for the true exemplar of Recruiting Honor - StlRecruiting.com.

If DAVE is in another category, it's probably best to appease him, and those categories aren't as cool, anyway.

Also - DAVE Mendoza is a puppy blender.