# Give me some good ways to think about job rejection

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-good-ways-to-think-about-job-rejection/813442>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 2, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-good-ways-to-think-about-job-rejection/813442 "2018-05-02T00:09:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-good-ways-to-think-about-job-rejection/813442/1 "2018-05-02T00:09:58Z")

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A shitty day . . . I was an internal candidate for a job I was kind of ambivalent about, but at least wanted to be offered it! I was actually interviewed twice for this job in the past and was the number two candidate both times – the dept wanted, as did I, for our top internal candidate to get the job, but I would be next in line if candidate one didn’t take the job.

I was practically begged by colleagues to apply for the opening so I did it in public-spiritedness. Our dept is huge, complex, and has a lot of quirky professorial folk to manage. A long-lasting tradition is the candidate must have a Ph.D. and minimum of five years teaching experience.

The TL;DR version of politics: I’ve been there 11 years, the majority love me, a minority are okay about me, and a few people despise me (one of them is a person I whistle-blew on for corruption and evil deeds some years back and they lost an a

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**Author:** ![Jennshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Jennshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jennshark)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-good-ways-to-think-about-job-rejection/813442/2 "2018-05-02T01:27:47Z")

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Reported self for accidental double post. The real McCoy is above.

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2018, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/give-me-some-good-ways-to-think-about-job-rejection/813442/3 "2018-05-02T01:29:25Z")

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