no return calls on job interviews

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.

I would much rather get a rejection letter by mail than nothing at all.

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.

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.

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.

Oh, I really hoped someone else would do this…

…the amount of resumes…

Try…the number of resumes…because amount is substandard useage.

:rolleyes:

What would you prefer – that they tie it to a brick and heave it through your window?

[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!

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–

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

Given this number appears to be correct because you have a countable number of resumes.