A rejection email sent to a job applicant was posted to the Twitter account “Dudes Posting Their W’s,” which highlights minor victories in the lives of men everywhere, as people widely agreed that the guy who didn’t get the job was actually the winner here.
This is thanks to the fact that the hiring manager took the unusual step of explaining exactly why the applicant was passed over, seeming to be rather bitter about some of the actions taken by the job seeker during the interview process.
“It was noted during your interviews, that you told both our recruiter and the hiring manager that ‘they wasted your time because they were late’ and ‘you took time off work just to hear a low ball offer and that we should have posted the salary range in the job description,’” the rejection email reads.
Full email:
This statement exposes how managers will often consider their workers’ personal time to generally not matter, demonstrated by how they will aggressively demand that their employees submit to any demand that they cover someone else’s shift. They will also discipline and even fire workers for being late, but not hold themselves to the same rules.
Some managers have even admitted to being late, sometimes severely so, to interviews in order to “weed out” workers who actually value their own personal time, only hiring those so desperate and beat down that they will let their boss waste hours of their time for no reason. Hiring managers being late to interviews, especially without an apology or explanation, is a red flag that indicates they will be even less respectful of your time when you’re working for them.
Additionally, workers in the U.S. have begun to take issue with job ads that don’t list the pay rate for the position. This is often done to obscure the fact that it pays far less than anyone working that job would be worth, resulting in additional wasted time for those who know and demand their worth.
In Washington state, a bill was recently signed into law that will require companies within its borders to explicitly state the rate of pay on their job advertisements. Under this law, to go into effect at the beginning of 2023, companies must “disclose in each posting for each job opening the wage scale or salary range, and a general description of all of the benefits and other compensation to be offered to the hired applicant.”
Companies, or at least their upper-level management, are resistant to these laws because they stop them from getting workers to accept lower compensation than they were looking for after being exhausted by the interview process. They obscure this by making excuses like the one laid out in the hilarious way this email ended.
“We told you that we do this so people won’t apply just for the money. After which you replied ‘what money?’”
This is absolutely a W, and commenters agree both on this point and the idea that jobs are actually for making money and don’t need to be anything else.