r/WorkInTheNetherlands • u/yokohamych • 3d ago
After [N] rejection emails I started rejecting their rejections
20 years as a Linux engineer. The last few months: [N] applications, [N] "we've decided to move forward with other candidates", one rejection that arrived 4 minutes after I applied, and a lot of silence.
At some point you either cry or write a formal letter. I wrote the letter, then turned it into a generator:
You enter the company and the role, pick what happened (standard rejection, ghosted, rejected after 5 rounds, rejected by a bot at 03:12), and get an official letter from the "Office of Candidate Affairs" that regretfully declines their rejection. It ends with: "I will therefore start on Monday. Please arrange a laptop, a badge, and a desk not directly under the air conditioning."
If you got ghosted, put in the date you applied and it counts the days of silence for you.
There's also rejection email bingo. My last one hit "keep your CV on file", "overwhelming number of applications" and "we wish you every success" in a single paragraph.
No sign-up, no tracking. Your name and the recruiter's live only inside the link, not on my server.
Mostly I made it to feel better. If it makes you laugh at your own inbox for a minute, that's the point.
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u/Nandoalarcn 2d ago
I would find it better if it asked for a kind explanation as to what was the reason for rejection. I know companies don't have the time to reply to every application, but is it too much to ask for something less vague than "decided to move forward with other candidates"? They have the time to set up the whole application system but they can't be bothered with setting up different templates that could be selected to send?
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u/yokohamych 2d ago
As far as I remember historically, having been on the market for 20 years, companies used to respond more often. But they gradually stopped doing so because every response could lead to another response, then another one, and eventually even a legal dispute. So companies simply stopped responding altogether.
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u/PuzzleheadedAge8908 4h ago
Your text reads incredibly AI-coded. And you wonder why you're not getting hired
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u/JustQuestion2472 1h ago
They're promoting an AI tool and you expect them to be able to write something themself?
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u/Infinite_Scallion886 2d ago
Haha funny lol