Continued, The Correspondent
TO: sybilvanantwerp@
SUBJECT: This is Basam Mansour from Kindred
Hello, Ms. Van Antwerp,
I apologize for contacting you from my personal email address. I was let go from my position at Kindred before the new year, and now I am working as a driver for Uber and delivering carryout meals for a Vietnamese restaurant. I continue to look for work in my field.
I did something ignorant. I tried to send my resume to you from the customer service email address.
There was a firewall in the system I did not know about, which screens attachments.
It was foolish of me not to have predicted this.
My supervisor did an audit of my emails and discovered the long history of exchanges we have shared.
Finding my correspondence with you inappropriate, he cut off my access to client accounts and I worked for two weeks in a nonclient-facing role, and afterward was terminated.
It was very bad, but I also understand and knew it was not ethical to do what I was doing: sending you my resume.
Several months ago I tried to email you.
I received no reply and assumed you did not want to maintain communication outside of the Kindred context, understandably so, but this morning I returned to my email and evaluated the possibility I had spelled your email address wrong.
I was working from memory, as I was not able to access any information in Kindred, as I said, once I was relocated in the company.
And here was the problem! I’d spelled your name “von” rather than “van” initially.
If this is the correct email address, I hope you will reply, and please forgive me for this unconventional manner of communication. I am attaching my resume at last, and welcome your assistance if you have any to provide.
I hope to hear from you,
Basam Mansour
P.S. I did look into the account of the DNA match you had. I am forgetting the name, but I remember this woman who contacted you lives in Fort William, Scotland. When I worked for Kindred, I was troubled by the ethics of sending you this information, but I am free from that contract now.