what happens if you sign a cover letter “love”?
Well, if the cover letter is on a job application, you’ll probably get tossed straight into the *reject * pile.
If you’re Davis Love III, then you get the job as a golf pro right quick.
There should be a sticky in GQ that says in large flaming letters: if you write an OP that is meaninglessly vague you’ll get answers that are meaninglessly jokey. Because there is no other way to respond to such a question without knowing all the details.
but there ARE no other details.
Is this like the time I called in sick and accidentally told my boss I loved her as I was saying goodbye? Because, while understandable (my mother used to answer the house phone as “Keystone”, the little grocery she worked at for years), it’s damn embarrassing.
On the other hand, on a letter you’d think you’d catch that before you mailed…
There are always details.
A cover letter is just a letter sent to accompany some other payload. Most people think of cover letters with job applications but it can be other things.
What is this cover letter accompanying?
Did you send it, or someone else? Or is it hypothetical?
What is the sex of the sender? The recipient?
What was the content? If a job app, what kind of job was it?
What city/state/country sent from? To?
Was it a response to an ad? Or a follow-up from a personal meeting?
Was it on purpose, or by accident out of habit?
Don’t bother to answer, but you see, there are always details.
Actually, the HR guy will probably show it to all his friends, then toss it in the reject pile.
–Cliffy
Of course, THIS depends on if the author has included an 8x10 glossy with the package…
Where I am from, the HR guy will post it on a web page for ridicule, then toss it.
Since the OP doesn’t seem able to provide enough info for this question? to be answered factually, I’ll close it.
When come back, bring details.
samclem GQ moderator