Cheers!
The point is, it’s “boiler plate”, a fixed form which presents a blank uncomprehending and uncaring face, whatever the words may purport to convey.
BTW, the term “boiler plate” refers to a permanently engraved printer’s plate carrying a fixed text.
At least he got something.
I think he should put on his big boy pants and grow a pair.
That was just another occutard whine, “They didn’t hire me and they used polite boilerplate to reject me”. Call the whaa-bulence.
Honestly, that was pathetic. And that BS that it wasn’t done that way pre-eighties is just ignorant and sad. Secretarial school use to teach how to write those letters on manual typewriters.
I don’t know where the “today” came from, considering how common this sorta thing has been since the beginning of writing. Compootors may make us less forthcoming, honest, spontaneous, communal, or whatever, in many ways. But imagine what it used to be like in more rigidly hierarchical times. Do you think a boot black and his “guv’na” had genuine exchanges, or was it way mire formality tva. We can even imagine?
I don’t know where the “today” came from, considering how common this sorta thing has been since the beginning of writing. Compootors may make us less forthcoming, honest, spontaneous, communal, or whatever, in many ways. But imagine what it used to be like in more rigidly hierarchical times. Do you think a boot black and his “guv’na” had genuine exchanges, or was there more empty formality than we can ever imagine?
My comment:
“Reads to me like a pretty good letting-you-down-easy message that gets to the point and over with in the first paragraph. No beating around the bush or having to read all the way to the end. I suppose it could have had the subject line “We are not hiring you” so you wouldn’t even have to open it other than to satisfy any remaining curiosity.
“I’d be mildly interested in reading your idea of a better, less “anodyne” message.”
The letter was respectful and friendly. They went to he trouble to send it. I think the author is too sensitive. Btw, they were letting him know they were not going to have a relationship.
Man iI dont know who peed in that guys post toasties but he is seriously depressed. Thats just a standard HR form to cover their butt and prevent lawsuits. Nowdays you are lucky if you get anything. The typical response is nothing forcing you to call and the HR dept to say No Thank You. What did they guy want? A letter that said we think you are manic depressive and we worry that you might come to work one day with an assault rifle...
Man iI dont know who peed in that guys post toasties but he is seriously depressed. Thats just a standard HR form to cover their butt and prevent lawsuits. Nowdays you are lucky if you get anything. The typical response is nothing forcing you to call and the HR dept to say No Thank You. What did they guy want? A letter that said we think you are manic depressive and we worry that you might come to work one day with an assault rifle...
I think I see a reason they may have gone with another candidate: Our correspondent is obsessive and voluble over a slight thing.
Another way of looking at the email is that he was given the respect of an answer. That suggests to me that the Co. may not want to burn any bridges. As for “boilerplate”, maybe it would have helped if he included little animated butterflys on the borders? Geeez.
Being told you’re among the “top 2-3 candidates” means you’re toast. The rejection letter needn’t have been sent.
Being told you’re among the “top 2-3 candidates” means you’re toast. The rejection letter needn’t have been sent.
I get about a half dozen of those a day. I just note the message, delete them, and move on to the next one.