Worst Job Rejection

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CoolRich59 said:
Please allow me to offer a contrary viewpoint. Without knowing more detail, I think this is an acceptable response.

From the employer’s point of view, they are taking a “risk” each time they hire someone. And it’s always an expensive risk. I haven’t seen the numbers for a while, but the cost to hire an employee – even before they show up – is in the thousands of dollars.

So this employer may very well have looked at your application and thought "Sure, this person is willing to make the commute today, but will they still be willing to do so a month from now, three months from now, a year from now?

Or, will the drive get to be too much of a hassle, or too expensive, at which point they start missing work, or just quit. If that happens, the time and money they spent hiring and training you is wasted and they’re faced with the prospect of starting the applicant search all over again.

Just my .02 🙂
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That makes sense. I guess I find it mostly irritating because just about every job I’ve ever had is between half an hour to an hour away, so a commute has never been an issue (and they probably could’ve figured that out from my resume, which has the locations of my past jobs on them). Oh well. I don’t usually get rejection letters at all; maybe it’s a typical response and I just don’t know it.
 
FanChan said:
That makes sense. I guess I find it mostly irritating because just about every job I’ve ever had is between half an hour to an hour away, so a commute has never been an issue (and they probably could’ve figured that out from my resume, which has the locations of my past jobs on them). Oh well. I don’t usually get rejection letters at all; maybe it’s a typical response and I just don’t know it.
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But your resume doesn’t have your past addresses. When my husband was applying for a position, a number of years ago, they asked him about the drive because it seemed like a long commute. He told them that he commuted, at the time, twice that. They offered him the job.
Now he has a really short commute and comes home for lunch. I don’t ever want to go back to that old commute. We never saw him.
 
My wife has you all beat…

After she finished school she applied to Porsche. One month later she received a letter saying that they were not interested in her for the position. Then about a three months later she received a second letter stating that she was not qualified for the position. That’s two rejection letters; she had only applied to the job once. Finally just so they could really make their point they sent her a letter one year later, stating that they were not interested and that she was not qualified for the position. So that’s three rejection letters from the same company all for the same position that she had only applied to once.

Now that’s how you do rejection…

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Heh, heh. . .I was once told I was overqualified, and I didn’t even have any experience! I was applying for my first job. Talk about low. . . 🙂
 
Perhaps having a women in the workspace of a warehouse is a liability to them because they cannot ensure that everyone employed there will treat you with respect…

Sexual harassment lawsuits are quite popular these days.
 
Urf said:
Perhaps having a women in the workspace of a warehouse is a liability to them because they cannot ensure that everyone employed there will treat you with respect…

Sexual harassment lawsuits are quite popular these days.
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Then they should have said as much. And they shouldn’t have advertised being equal opportunity employers. Discrimination is another popular foundation for lawsuits.
 
Cajun_Girl said:
Heh, heh. . .I was once told I was overqualified, and I didn’t even have any experience! I was applying for my first job. Talk about low. . . 🙂
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I had a friend in college who was on probation (for bad grades in a quarter) and on the Dean’s list (for high overall GPA)!
 
FanChan said:
Then they should have said as much. And they shouldn’t have advertised being equal opportunity employers. Discrimination is another popular foundation for lawsuits.
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See, the problem is that admitting as much is discrimination in and of itself. They dont have any choice but to advertise equal opportunity for that very reason.
 
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