The employer signed the letter off by saying ‘stay hungry, stay foolish’
A job seeker has shared a rejection letter that was so bad it patronised them “into a rage.”
In a TikTok, Tamsyn Fox read out the baffling rejection letter they received from a games company for a sound designer position they had applied for.
The clip has since been viewed almost 130,000 times and racked up more than 16,000 likes,
The letter read: “We’ll cut to the chase: your application wasn’t successful. And who knows, maybe we’ve made a big mistake?
“Albert Einstein couldn’t land a job as a maths tutor for kids, and Spielberg got rejected from film school. Crazy right!”
It continued by saying that a person may have to manage a “little failure” before “finding success,” with the company usefully pointing out that they don’t know “what the future holds” for Tamsyn.
It concluded: “Perhaps you’ll prove us wrong (we certainly hope so). Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
@pur_purblockthanks for patronising me into a rage that can only be described as ‘fiery’
Many shared their shock and bemusement at the letter in the comments, pointing out how patronising it was.
One user wrote that it feels “like an elder millennial wrote this.”
A second echoed the sentiment, saying that they would “live laugh love my way out of their application.”
Another commented: “Urgh they sound like they do team building exercises and family bbqs.”
“This is more patronising than an email I got from a coffee shop company that basically said, ‘it’s the six month anniversary of us rejecting you,” a third added.
And someone else suggested that Tamsyn had “dodged a bullet,” to which they replied: “Literally, part of me couldn’t be happier they rejected me.”
Tamsyn has since said that it was the fact that they felt they were being talked down to that made them so angry, and that phrases like “stay hungry” felt insensitive given the current cost of living crisis.
They told the Independent: “I also think the sheer amount of spelling and grammatical errors just made me feel even worse, like my application was so bad that my rejection email didn’t even need a proofread.”
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