They should not censor the company name.
This person's rejection reason
Submitted 2 years ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/04c889c9-5e83-40fe-8272-cecb1462c390.jpeg
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Eximius@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
But then you might realize it’s fake.
Custoslibera@lemmy.world 2 years ago
What do you mean ‘Company Business Incorporated Pty Ltd.’ Isn’t a legitimate employer?
GroundedGator@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Birthday on LinkedIn is a bit outlandish as age discrimination laws are fairly standard. I think it is more likely that they called it their birthday on some immature post, which may mean that the applicant is a poor cultural fit.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 years ago
“Nobody was born on 4/20 except Hitler. We do not wish to hire Hitler at this time.”
eager_eagle@lemmy.world 2 years ago
at this time
Guntrigger@feddit.ch 2 years ago
Times they are a changin’
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“However, the skillset has been retained in our documentation for future potential expansion into potential expansion.”
JTheDoc@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Your skills and qualities tell us you may be over qualified for the position. We would like to offer you a role in management instead.”
echodot@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Well that’s your loss I hear he’s great at PR
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 2 years ago
This can’t be real. There are so many red flags this is fake. 1) Everything is censored. 2) GIS lookup only shows reddit and linkedin. The linkedin post is just as vague “learned a colleague received this!” 3) It’s too good to be true. it plays on current fears. 4) It’s just so dumb.
doctorcrimson@lemmy.today 2 years ago
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Of course everything is censored, there is no reason to share personal info like that.
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I don’t know what Geographical Information Systems have to do with this post, are you referring to a reverse image search like google or tineye or something? What were you expecting to find? The original email with all of the aforementioned personal info? Are you surprised content could be posted to Reddit before anywhere else?
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Current fears are justified.
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Poe’s Law tells me not to assume anything is satirical because there will always be people that stupid or greedy.
And yeah, it could be fake, 100%, but your arguments were really dumb.
rallatsc@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
GIS might be Google Image Search in this case, though I haven’t seen it abbreviated like that before.
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son_named_bort@lemmy.world 2 years ago
- Companies usually don’t send out detailed rejection letters like this. They’re usually like “after reviewing your credentials we decided to go with another candidate” or something vague like that.
Voyajer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
#1 is in no way a red flag, don’t put other’s personally identifying information on the Internet.
GrayBackgroundMusic@lemm.ee 2 years ago
Disagree. If this was true, terrible companies should be named and shamed.
orphiebaby@lemm.ee 2 years ago
I fucking hate people like you. “Everything on Reddit/Lemmy is fake and gay. Here’s my evidence.” All evidence easily has an explanation, most of it laughably so. What do idiots who claim everything is fake get out of it? To troll the OP? Or do you just want to spread your misery?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
What always ticks me off beyond reason in mails like these is the “we genuinely appreciate your time and effort in…”
Fuck. You. With. An. Umbrella.
You don’t appreciate shit, you’re full of shit, yet you’re too shit to even just say what you really want to say: fuck you, we don’t give a damn. Because being actually honest might also be bad and cost money.
Companies like there are the worse and should all burn in hell
glimse@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Thank you for the opportunity!
Jarix@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I appreciate the time and effort it took to reply
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I’d rather get a rejection email than eternally wondering why an AI filtered you put
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
It’s not the email that bugs me, it’s the fake politeness and language like “but we care! We really do!”
Karlos_Cantana@kbin.social 2 years ago
Glad that won't happen to me. I was born on January 6th.
The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 2 years ago
Now I’m imagining someone legitimately putting their Jan6 involvement on a resume.
Window Structural Integrity Tester (Jan 6th, 2021): Responsibilities included - unconventional team-building activities, conditioning, navigating unfamiliar territory, and breaking down barriers.
Poggervania@kbin.social 2 years ago
Nah, it’d probably be more like:
Security Field Tester (Jan 6, 2021): Part of a group that organized a large-scale “peaceful march” in order to thoroughly check security protocols for the Capitol building. Duties included attempts at theft to see if we’d be stopped, testing window durability by attempting to break them, engaging physically with security staff in riot gear to test security training, and shouting terroristic threats in order to see how secure government protocols were in the event of a riot at a governmental building.
Sunfoil@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Is this not completely illegal? Dunno about the USA, in the UK age is a protected characteristic and you would be fucked for trying this. If it’s real ofc.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Only over 40, and this isn’t age it’s their birthday.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 years ago
Hell, it’s the do United States “Home of the free™”, where you can sue for anything.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
It’s age modulo!
Etterra@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You should have left in the company name. Shame them publicly.
jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 years ago
This is most likely fake.
If this was automated, a company automating rejection emails would never write the reason for rejection. It would be a vague excuse like “not a good fit for the role”.
If this was not automated, then no recruiter would be this stupid.
regdog@lemmy.world 2 years ago
On the one hand this is a bad that this happened to you, because the reasoning is completely idiotic.
On the other hand it can be a learning lesson that it’s better to write your birthday as April 20th, and never as 4/20.
PS: Please name that company publicly. Maybe write a short mail to a website about tech news, like arstechnica.com or www.wired.com. You could also try the blog boingboing.net
Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Seems like they should really keep using 4/20, seems like an effective pre-screening tool for places I don’t even want to walk by, let alone work at.
recapitated@lemmy.world 2 years ago
But that’s still Hitler’s birthday, which is very unprofessional.
LuffyisBlack@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Also the anniversary of columbine… Man I hate my birthday.
Meta_J@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Publicity will help prevent such major oversight. This is the problem with using AI for hiring practices instead of real people. Applying to jobs in the 2020s with a college degree, experience in the field, required employment history, and certifications STILL feels like applying for credit cards online with bad credit due to AI prematurely denying many applicants on frivolous grounds before it even gets to the recruiters email/web portal. That being said I don’t think this person is the person who received the email themselves they are just posting it here.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It may not be worth listening to me on this because I only got to preliminary stages of looking for a new job before finding out that I would need to be a full time learning coach for my daughter’s online school, but I had ChatGPT rewrite my resume for me. My reasoning was that if AI is weeding out resumes, they’ll be less likely to weed out a resume written by what an AI thinks a resume should look like.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 2 years ago
Why does a company even need your date of birth on an application?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 years ago
For the $5 starbucks gift card they give out on employee birthdays
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Wait who puts their birthday on a resume?
bonnetbee@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Me, why shouldn’t one do that? But my last resume is 10 years old, maybe I am out of touch with all the mumbo jumbo dancing you have to do, to build the “right” resume.
HollandJim@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Many places now, that might be illegal to ask for, like race and sex.
RGB3x3@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Don’t put your age. It can lead to unintentional (or intentional) age discrimination and it’s better for your experience to be the focus.
Age isn’t a factor in hiring, so there’s no need to put it on there. It could only be a detriment to the applicant.
tty5@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Unless you are trying to get a job with min/max age requirements, like airline pilot or us president, age provides no valuable information to potential employer other than a factor to illegally discriminate on.
r_se_random@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Personally, I would say it shouldn’t matter.
I wouldn’t want to know the birth date of a person I was interviewing, and there’s no need for my interviewer to know mine.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.world 2 years ago
It wasn’t on their résumé it was on their LinkedIn.
Although now the question becomes, why would you put your DOB on LinkedIn, which I have no idea.
Spaceballstheusername@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I just looked at my LinkedIn and don’t see anywhere that birthday is even displayed. This is clearly fake.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
who doesn’t?
tty5@lemmy.world 2 years ago
I don’t even have my age on mine.
spudwart@spudwart.com 2 years ago
If you’re in the US and can afford it, Talk to a lawyer.
This is blatant discrimination of a immutable attribute which is a Civil Rights violation.
This is written evidence to that fact.
ddkman@lemm.ee 2 years ago
This is why I assume this must be fake. Because even a trainee HR employee would look at that email, and not send it out.
aodhsishaj@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nobody looked at that email, it was automated
Crack0n7uesday@lemmy.world 2 years ago
If that’s real and in the US that’s age discrimination and you can sue, and easily win, even if they say it’s not your age, but the date of your birthday it still would fall under discrimination based on age.
procrastitron@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Age is only a protected class if you are 40 or older.
MrBusiness@lemmy.zip 2 years ago
Well that’s dumb.
quo@feddit.uk 2 years ago
[deleted]kadotux@sopuli.xyz 2 years ago
I honestly can’t tell if you’re serious or not.
PhaseL@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks because it is illegal
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 2 years ago
Under GDPR you have a right for your application to be reviewed by a human rather than an automated rejection. Is there something like that in the country maybe?
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Lol, not in the US.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 years ago
You have the right to apply somewhere else. 😘
TostiHawaii@feddit.nl 2 years ago
That is not what GDPR is about.
Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Nobody wants to work anymore”
MenacingPerson@lemm.ee 2 years ago
why is your comment glowing golden for me?
madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 years ago
We genuinely appreciate
🤣You obviously don’t you dickheads
Hotchillipotato@slrpnk.net 2 years ago
I fucking despise the fact that AI almost exclusively is responsible for throwing out 99% of all resumes before they reach a human being
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 2 years ago
Local company? Send it to the local news. They’ll jump all over a reference to end of days AI.
taiyang@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Reminds me of my sister getting in trouble for saying she had to go at 4:20. It was deemed “unprofessional”. She has a appointment, lol
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
My dude, that is not a company you want to be working for. On the bright side.
HikingVet@lemmy.ca 2 years ago
Well, I hope that this gets someone in shit.
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Well I’d certainly say they dodged a bullet
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s embarrassing. Ping their recruitment team on LinkedIn.
merc@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
Historical fun fact: this is why Hitler was rejected from art school in Vienna.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
“Choose a better date to be born on next time, okay?”
dipshit@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s the great thing about AI, it’s like a human! Humans don’t need to work anymore because our computers speak like us now! It’s only ever really a problem if someone reads what AI wrote.
But if you don’t read it, wow, just look at the spacing, the typography, the paragraphs! the
tokenswords!zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 2 years ago
Could this be considered discrimination? Rejecting applicant based on something they have no control over and unrelated to the position.
Zoidberg@lemm.ee 2 years ago
LOL! I was born on 4/20 too (and so was Hitler, btw ☹️)
greenmarty@lemmy.world 2 years ago
There are people laughing at them for not hiring someone born at 20th of April , very same folks riding elevators and not finding weird that the 13th floor is missing.
kamen@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s because they’re using the wrong date format.
/s
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That is probably a slam dunk (minor) discrimination lawsuit. Your circumstances of birth, including the date, are not something you can be judged for.
Follow up with your ID or Birth certificate and ask “Excuse me?”
blaine@kbin.social 2 years ago
@ocassionallyaduck
@The_Picard_Maneuver
Not true in the US. They could ban anyone born in the month of April if they wanted to.
Applicants, employees and former employees are ONLY protected from employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age (40 or older), disability and genetic information (including family medical history).
flyingjake@lemmy.one 2 years ago
I wonder if an argument could be made that birthdate is a component of your genetic information including family medical history? It is also potentially age discrimination?
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 2 years ago
At the moment you have 69 upvotes, so I can’t, in good conscience, upvote you. But you’re right.
Chev@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Nobody said that they are from the US.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
It wouldn’t get anywhere in the US. Age is the closest protected class, but only applies to over 40 in the US. Discrimination based on month and day of birth isn’t actually illegal.
Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 years ago
I honestly think there’s a gray area here and it’s worth talking to a lawyer if anything. There are certainly some protections for peoples under 40. Being denied a promotion because you’re “too young” is certainly a protection. The catch is you have to prove it.
This case is easy to prove though if there are any laws over this.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Whelp, time for arson then. Sorry, it’s the rules.
pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.works 2 years ago
What about star sign? That’s got to be illegal, and it’s p close to this
Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Just set your profile to @ not US system and your birthday will be 20/4 instead!
AlfredEinstein@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Classic age discrimination.
Make sure to find a lawyer who is 69 years old and whose license plate is LOL80085.