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I'd also appreciate if employers would just inform you that you were not picked. So many just ghost you so you wait and wait and eventually just give up and look elsewhere.
Like, how hard is it to send a mail "You are not the chosen one".
Oh please. I'd love to reply to that with a gif
I had one interviewer specially say she was committed to getting back to each candidate, no matter the outcome. I expressed genuine appreciation for that, saying that most places just ghost people.
She ghosted me.
Right above you someone has posted how much they hate rejection letters and it got heaps of upvotes.
People just don't like working or looking for work. Nobody has any consistent values or takes on it, other than it all sucks.
Looking for work is awful, I get that there's a lot of things that an employer needs to know to make a decision but it's the most anxiety inducing stage of the process. Working is fine but looking for work is many times worse.
Having been on every side of this issue, I can agree 100% that our current state of employment/job-hunting is abysmal, and this has everything to do with the claws of capitalism just sinking into our very souls every day and clawing out anything and everything that isn't the constant pursuit of wealth.
It shouldn't be this stressful to find a place where you can do something you don't hate for 8 hours. But our very lives depend on it, healthcare attached to it, our social value hinging on saying you have a job. It's really bad.
Still, don't leave me in a fuckin uncertainty. It sucks to get rejected, but at least you know you can cross that one off your wishlist then.
As an awkward fellow, having made hiring decisions twice in my life from a vast pool of three candidates each time, I hate sending rejection emails and it's legally dangerous to engage in any sort of explanation if they ask for one. Mostly I do it so they don't continue to follow up. At a larger company, I don't see a way to have the time to do it unless it's an automated system, in which case I'd advise not applying.