# no return calls on job interviews **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 28, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308 "2003-08-28T23:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![corndog\_man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@corndog\_man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corndog_man)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/41 "2003-09-04T13:03:36Z")
What I hate is when a company sends me a REJECTION LETTER by mail. I find this insulting really. Taking time out from their busy day to write or scan a form letter, and paying about 30 cents to tell me that i do not meet up to their standards. Another time is when I went to a chain restauant FOUR damn times to get interviews for a waiting position. I mean, I am not applying to be Secretary of State or anything. I hate employment. I hate begging to these MF’ers. This is the main reason why i want to hit the lottery. ---
**Author:** ![Eggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d9b06d/32.png) [@Eggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggles)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/42 "2003-09-04T13:45:10Z")
I would much rather get a rejection letter by mail than nothing at all. ---
**Author:** ![dewizeowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@dewizeowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewizeowl)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2003, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/43 "2003-09-06T23:50:59Z")
Just as a follow up, I decided to find out what is going on rather than just sit here mumbling to myself about the idiots in the world and on SDMB. I left an e-mail for the HR person, with the grand plan to leave another one to her and the hiring manager and if that didn’t get a response, then one to the head of HR et al. I figured someone would respond. I got a call back the next day from the HR person witha a semi-brush back pitch. It seems they are still looking at their requirements and I am still being considered, but it may be some time. Unfortunately, it is a job I really want so I said that was fine, but I can’t be sure I’ll be available when anything comes up, if I get another job. So, I think it isn’t a bad idea to bug the hell out of the HR people. If it looks like you don’t have the job, how much harm is it if they shred your paperwork. ---
**Author:** ![Eggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d9b06d/32.png) [@Eggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggles)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/44 "2003-09-07T03:40:36Z")
Well, I guess the response from the HR person is somewhat heartening. Perhaps that will inspire me to try again and send another email to the person I have given up chasing. Good luck with the job hunt. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/45 "2003-09-07T03:56:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by koeeoaddi \* > \*\*I _so_ agree with this. The last rejection call I got was from a bookstore manager, half my age who told me in an upbeat chirpy voice (like she had wonderful news for me) that “the position has been filled.” ::tumbleweed rolls by:: “At this time.” ☹ > > Send me an e-mail, write me a polite note. Spare me the humiliating call. > > \*\* Me three. I’ve only had this happen once, and it floored me. Why leave a cheerful message for me to _call them back_ when all they wanted to do was say “sorry, we filled the job?” They couldn’t have left the bad news in the message?? I like letters better, since I don’t have to talk to them again. ---
**Author:** ![thatDDperson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@thatDDperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thatDDperson)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/46 "2003-09-07T06:48:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mr. B \* > \*\*Just as an aside, we always send “regret” letters to the applicants who don’t make the cut. It would be nice if others would do the same, but judging from the amount of resumes we get for each ad, it’s probably generally viewed as cost-prohibitive. \*\* Oh, I really hoped someone else would do this… …the amount of resumes… Try…the number of resumes…because amount is substandard useage. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/47 "2003-09-07T16:28:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by corndog man \* > **What I hate is when a company sends me a REJECTION LETTER by mail. I find this insulting really.** What would you prefer – that they tie it to a brick and heave it through your window? ---
**Author:** ![El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/41988e/32.png) [@El\_Cid\_Viscoso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Cid_Viscoso)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/48 "2003-09-07T18:05:08Z")
[lurk and snipe]Try…the number of resumes…because amount is substandard useage.[/lurk and snipe] Where’ve you been, **DD**? All this time and you only now mention the SDMB _Style Guide_? Why you simply _must_ divulge its location! > [@](#): > > **Merriam-Webster** > The use of amount with count nouns has been frequently criticized; it usually occurs when the number of things is thought of as a mass or collection \ \ or when money is involved \ ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Xadium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed655f/32.png) [@Dr\_Xadium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Xadium)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/49 "2003-09-07T18:58:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by corndog man \* > \*\*I hate employment. I hate begging to these MF’ers. This is the main reason why i want to hit the lottery. \*\* Testify! You’re not alone in that, believe you me… Bad enough that the world is set up in such a way that most of us have to slave ourselves to generally indifferent taskmasters who see us as nothing but easily replaceable elements in some vast corporate machine-- but to have to _beg_ for the “right”… Sorry, just stressed out about my own job “hunt”… gah, if it was a hunt for _real_ I’d be dead of starvation. Wait… I still might be… --sigh– ---
**Author:** ![dewizeowl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@dewizeowl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dewizeowl)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2003, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308/50 "2003-09-07T19:20:47Z")
From the University of Oregon Grammar and Style Guide. amount or number Amount refers to volume or to a quantity you can’t count. Number refers to things you can count. See also number later in this section. The speech caused a tremendous amount of controversy. but: What’s the largest number of students we can expect? [http://www.uoregon.edu/~uopubs/grammar/terms.html](http://www.uoregon.edu/~uopubs/grammar/terms.html) Given this number appears to be correct because you have a countable number of resumes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-return-calls-on-job-interviews/198308.md?page=2)