Strangest Rejection Letter of All
I suppose I should feel very, very rejected.
I just received a rejection letter from a firm that I met with while I was in Tokyo. I didn't interview with them at EIP, and so obviously I didn't get a callback. But at this point--when I can only be holding two offers anyway--they felt the need to tell me that they wouldn't be offering me employment this summer.
At least they took the time to care, I suppose.
Update: In case anyone is wondering, this is a joke. I just found it ironic that someone sent a rejection letter out this late in the game.
Comments
Posted by: Chris Schreiber | November 9, 2004 3:53 PM
While clerking, I interviewed with a BIGLAW firm that never bothered to get back to me. Ever. So I was in the Judge's chambers one day and my job search came up and I mentioned this to him. Funnily enough, this very same firm had done the same thing to him decades earlier. Well, almost. Actually, he finally accepted elsewhere and then bumped into some folks from said BIGLAW firm. Apparently the fact that they never bothered to get back to him came up. And a week later he received a rejection letter. Even though he had let them know that he had accepted elsewhere and the issue was, therefore, moot. Classy, huh?
My favorite rejection letter episode is from law school though. One Monday, I received a rejection letter from a regional firm. Then on Wednesday I received a letter inviting me to a call-back interview from the same firm. Both letters were signed in ink by the same partner.
It was late in the interview season and my prospects were bleak. So I should have been grateful for the second letter. But I was good and bitter, and my next move was probably not my finest moment. I drafted a subtly mocking e-mail to said partner expressing my perplexity and asking whether the firm wished to interview me or not. Surpisingly, I was invited up for a call back interview. Unsurpisingly, I did not get an offer.
Posted by: The Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk | November 9, 2004 11:20 PM