cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/60167542

I'd feel more considered if I'd gotten no email at all

Some think this isn't an LLM (I still disagree), but either way I find the message to be incredibly patronizing. My effort doesn't feel acknowledged when their not putting any effort into rejecting me.

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[–] 47 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This is a boilerplate rejection letter. Companies have been sending rejection letters like this with the same language almost verbatim for decades, long before LLMs existed.

Sorry you got rejected, but be grateful for the closure. Some companies don't even bother, leaving you wondering how your time invested in a fourth-round interview went.

If it's a job you actually wanted, reply and ask for some tips on how to improve as a candidate. Otherwise, I don't really see how this has to do with work reform other than your personal preference of dispensing with superfluous language and getting to the point.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

    I hate that companies have to be above and beyond on rejection if they do them.

    Like i'm glad they give them but, how hard is a:

    Subject: Application/Interview Rejected

    body:

    Dear name,

    We regret to inform you that we have decided not to continue with your application/interview process due to X,

    We appreciate your interest in this company,

    HR Name

    With X being the reason.

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  • [–] 21 points 8 months ago

    At least you got a response.

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    [–] 79 points 8 months ago (9 children)

    I don't think this is AI tbh. Crap like this is where AI learned to talk like that. I've been getting these kind of emails way before LLMs were a thing

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah this screams templated email to me. You don't need an AI to sound generic, you can just use a generic template. With the number of emails they send out I seriously doubt they want to spend the money on rejection emails generated by an AI.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    There's no space between the dash though. AI does em dash like -- this, and the email did it like--this.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    That's not an em dash in your comment. In the email it looks to be an em dash.

    Here are the three dashes: em dashes (—), en dashes (–) , and hyphens (-)

    It's the width that makes the em dash so noticeable in ai content.

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  • [–] 45 points 8 months ago*

    I’d feel more considered if I’d gotten no email at all

    I hate when I get ghosted. A rejection email lets me close the loop with that company and move on. Otherwise, I feel like "there's still a chance!" and that's worse.

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  • [–] 34 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm a recruiter, this is 100% their default rejection template. It's pretty standard, but at least they let you know! I've been looking for a new role lately and you're lucky to get that DQ email and not just ghosted.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Yeah. I'll take a soft-no form letter if they ditched me vs the ghosting i got last time around.

    A dear friend on the last of her reserves is waiting to hear from one of the last few interviews she'll get in her house if she doesn't land something within weeks. And she loves that house. We don't have the heart to tell her they've ghosted her since Friday as it'll break her.

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    This is how they've done rejections for the last 25 years. Form letters. Not AI in this case. Also waayyyyy better than being ghosted. When you're ghosted, you have no idea if they saw your application or if they're still considering or what. There's an anxiety that a job offer could come through after you accept another offer and what if they offer a bit more money? It becomes a whole thing. Honestly, I'd rather receive an actual AI rejection than be ghosted.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    As I continued to bolster my skills, resume and connections any company that ghosted me I've ghosted or blacklisted.

    Now, 10 years later with an in-demand skill set I have companies reach out to interview, and if it's a company who's ghosted me in the past I either ghost them, or tell them "Due to past experiences of being ghosted by your company, I won't interview."

    I really do encourage people to just treat these companies the same, don't give them the time of the day.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago*

    This reads more like a standard form rejection letter than a slop rejection letter.

    Most companies would want them to be form letters so they don’t end up sued by someone who thinks they were rejected for a protected reason.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Not AI. I've gotten enough emails exactly like that to know that its a form letter provided by the recruiting platforms. AI is never that consistent.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Im tired of the media still trying to convince us the econmy is good when we are clearly in a depression and the worst job market sine the 2008 crash.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    bu...but the lines are going up!

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Not for you , they are going down for you personnally

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    honestly...my lines are going up crazy good, stock market is honestly easy as fuck way to make $ in a bull market, to a point.

    little bit of risk tolerance and basic understanding of underlying market mechanics (legal and technically not legal) makes gambling like shooting fish in barrel, but there are scaling/reward for time-effort issues past like 6 figs

    the "pros" do challenges like "how quickly can i turn this 500$ account into 50k", just for shits and giggles.

    all these rich cunts ratfucking our public funds all the time through backroom deals? all of them (and just rich people in general) throw their $ into the stock market cause they have nowhere else to spend it, building various bubbles because our market rules are designed to be exciting to "facilitate liquidity". eventually, republicans come into power and play disaster capitalist, force austerity (bear market) onto everyone but themselves, specifically to stress the system with the goal of purposefully popping the bubbles. neolibs on the dem side do the same thing, but stop just short of purposefully collapsing the economy.

    we have done this cycle many times over by now. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a pretty good entry into the subject, for anyone curious or thinking "surely it can't be that easy, your exaggerating"...is basically a tongue in cheek guidebook to trading like Wolf of Wallstreet, written over 100 years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    eh, when all the algos turn off is cheapest time to buy. long as your not shorting stuff/otherwise trading on margin/overexposed to debt-laden companies, it's pretty much a non-issue

    granted, that also takes the ability to ignore your emotions as well. it's easy to tell yourself your not gonna sell/try to time a bottom or something but it's another to see like half your life savings dissappear in a day.

    is why alot of rich people just pay others to manage their money (especially if they know how many behind the scenes games), keeping emotion out of it takes practice. tends to be an expensive lesson learned the first time around.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    A US.domainname suggests it's some gigantic mega-corporation, huh?

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    "Ew. Ew brotha, ewwww. We don't want you. You stinky. GTFO and never apply again, poopyhead."

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    What specifically makes this AI? They've been sending emails like that for years if not decades.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Same energy.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Honestly I assume rejection as a default when I apply for any job. Until I got proof it isn't wise to think I'm in.

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