By Annika Speer
The adjunct professor refreshes her email. A message awaits from a university she’d submitted to months prior, her fifty-seventh job application. Mouth becomes sawdust, heartbeat quickens. Invitation to interview, she mentally manifests. Hesitating, she opens:
Dear [applicant name]:
Thank you for your interest. Unfortunately, after careful review, we are not moving forward with your application. We wish you professional success.
The rejection dispatcher heedlessly left ‘[applicant name]’ in their mass email, cc’ing rather than bcc’ing her fellows in failure. Worse, this career gatekeeper emptily wishing “professional success” used Comic Sans. Teary indignation clouding vision and judgment, she huffily clicks ‘Reply All.’
Not Comic Sans!
HAHA
I love Comic Sans! Is that weird? I can only imagine what she’ll have to say in her “Reply All.”
How rude! I wouldn’t want to work for them anyway.
The Comic Sans comment is priceless.
Great job!
A great laugh for the day! The addition of Comic Sans is inspired – even its designer has rejected it!
Funny. And I had to look up comic sans.
Well done.
Well done!
Great job. Writers probably really relate to that story!
“The rejection dispatcher heedlessly left ‘[applicant name]’ in their mass email”. Yes! This rings so true. The burn of not just being rejected but worse, generically rejected!