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« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2005, 03:56:22 PM » |
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Not only have I received the rejection postcards, I have also received an e-mail from the department of a large community college. Because I had not only put together a huge application packet (with tons of written materials, evaluations, letters of reference), but also written detailed responses for a number of specialized committee questions, I was a little miffed. I hit reply and in a very polite way, asked if I had applied on-line to the position. I was hoping they would be shamed into admitting that no, I had not... and that yes, they were crass. Of course they did not answer.
Hey, thanks for that!
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« Reply #16 on: June 09, 2005, 04:22:53 PM » |
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I used to do this. One day I opened one and found an invitation to interview. God knows if I may have previously tossed one by mistake. I am now very careful about reading all the letters I receive... while standing over the recycle bin.
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« Reply #17 on: June 09, 2005, 04:35:15 PM » |
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I applied for a position in my degree-granting institution, and because the secretary is my friend, found out a month or so later that the position had been terminated because of lack of funds.
BUT--- a week after my friend told me the search was cancelled, the dept. chair insisted on sending two different letters - one to the rejects (like me) who didn't make the short list, saying we weren't the Chosen Ones, and one for those who did make the short list, informing them the line was pulled.
And of course, in a final piece of irony, the dept chair was on my PhD committee.
I would LOVE to someday confront him about that little unnecessary cruelty.
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« Reply #18 on: June 09, 2005, 05:39:41 PM » |
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I was shortlisted for a job, and never got an offer or a rejection letter or phone call; I read between the lines and assumed they didn't hire me. I took another job. The person who beat me out didn't work out-- nervous breakdown or some such-- and the job was advertised again the following year. I applied, got the job, and ultimately got tenure. At this point I doubt I ever get the rejection letter.
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« Reply #19 on: June 09, 2005, 07:08:32 PM » |
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lostintranslation wrote:
> A few years ago, my husband received a rejection email. It
> was a mass email and you could see everyone else's names or
> email addresses in the sent line. That was pretty tacky.
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DITTO! Maybe he got the same e-mail I got :) I even knew one person on the e-mail who probably didn't want me to know he was applying.
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« Reply #20 on: June 10, 2005, 05:01:14 AM » |
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I almost hate to admit this...
My letter carrier left a form in my mail box that a letter from a small midwestern liberal arts college was waiting for me at the post office.
Turns out the rejection letter had some postage due!
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Rejected 2
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« Reply #21 on: June 10, 2005, 06:55:38 AM » |
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I just got a rejection letter today from a job I campus-interviewed for five weeks ago. It reads like the one they would send to everyone who applied for the job. No mention of the interview/visit and it was from the monster HR director (she above anything else that I discovered in that interview turned me off to the job).
Makes me thankful I didn't get this job and have since interviewed for two more that were much better all-around.
BTW, I'm STILL waiting for the reimbursement check from that one and one other that I interviewed for six weeks ago. Both rejections and in both cases I'm glad!
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« Reply #22 on: June 10, 2005, 07:04:10 AM » |
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Rejected 2... I got one of those impersonal rejection letters from a place I had an on-campus interview (during a blizzard, which I drove through and ended up crashing my car at a repair cost of $2500, since they couldn't reschedule me).
The funny thing is that one of my friends (whose last name is earlier in the alphabet) who only had a conference interview got a personalized rejection letter. Well, sort of personalized. The search chair had crossed out the typed "Dear Dr. Alastname" and written in in pen "Dear Firstname." He also crossed out the computer generated signature and put in a real one. I just got the same computer generated rejection letter that people without conference interviews got.
My guess is that either they hated me that much, or more likely, the search chair ran out of steam (or ink) before getting to the middle of the alphabet (where my last name resides).
But at least I got a rejection letter.
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« Reply #23 on: June 10, 2005, 07:17:11 AM » |
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Time warp wrote:
> My very best rejection letter was one dated almost 2 1/2 half
> years after I had applied for a position as Director of a
> Center on Aging. I am used to the absurd, seemingly endless
> academic search process, and the unbelievably rude behavior by
> many supposedly distinguished Universities that leads them to
> never acknowledge receipt of your application or inform you of
> your status until you read about their new appointee. But this
> rejection letter 2 1/2 years later is the all time winner.
> That was almost three years ago. I am feeling inspired to
> write back to them some time this summer and thank them for
> their prompt and courteous reply. Only in academia!
welll.....it WAS at a Center on Aging! Maybe Alzheimers hit before they could hire anybody new......
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« Reply #24 on: June 10, 2005, 08:03:40 AM » |
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I got a good letter of rejection in the mail today. It's from a dean who says she enjoyed meeting me on my campus visit and that the search committee was impressed by the presentations I gave during my visit.
I did have an interview for this job... but it was a phone interview!
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Makes you wonder
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« Reply #25 on: June 10, 2005, 09:14:47 AM » |
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I remember getting a rejection letter for a position at a college tutoring and writing center. The letter had so many spelling and grammar errors I was tempted to proofread it and mail it back to them.
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« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2005, 08:30:53 PM » |
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Oh, I love this thread. Makes me laugh 'til I cry.
As one of three finalists, I once got a rejection letter that said that my qualifications "simply did not meet [their] needs." It was everything I could do, after an exhausting three-day campus interview, not to write back that after all that, I would think that at least I could fail to meet their needs in a more complex way.
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