The modern job application process is as dehumanizing as it's intended to be. Apply to 200 jobs, and you might hear back from five, eventually getting an interview with three, with (hopefully) one actually having a chance of progressing to employment.
Long gone are the days of "Turn up at the office and chuck your CV at the nearest manager" to prove your gumption. I highly doubt that method was actually as efficient as we've been led to believe. Still, if your older relatives are to be believed, that's how they got the first and only job they ever applied for—working there from when they dropped out of high school until retirement while supporting a family of five people.
No, the job application process is brutal, as is submitting a customized cover letter to 197 jobs that are never even going to give you the hope-crushing dignity of a rejection notice. That's why we like this job-seekers approach.
Redditor u/rainingmafackas has taken to writing "very passive-aggressive" cover letters to some of the outrageous job listings they find online, like this one that they shared on a popular Reddit subreddit.
Read on to see their cover letter, along with some of the reactions from the thread where it was posted. Next, check out this interviewer who threatened legal action after the candidate posted a review of their interview experience.
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