'She knows I'm jobless': Former employee gets rejected from ex-boss, then asked to donate to company fundraising event

Imagine leaving a company on great terms and being encouraged to come back should the situation arise… until it does and they reject you.

If this has happened to you, surely you had a similar reaction to this author. The initial impression might be that there must have been some kind of mistake. After all, your former manager always told you that there would be a position waiting for you at the company upon your return. Maybe the hiring manager just wasn't informed, and there was an innocent mixup, right? That explanation would still be slightly embarrassing, but everyone makes mistakes. 

Well, for this author, it turns out that the promise of always being able to return to their former company was a bit of an over-exaggeration. Keep scrolling below to find out what happened when the author confronted their former employer, and the clueless comment their employer made next!

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  • This author finally decided to confront their former manager, who always seemed to be complimentary of their work and energy. However, instead of acknowledging their prior professional relationship, the manager simply replied with a stock email. That's when the author decided they were not going to get away with this kind of poor treatment. Once the manager acknowledged their mistake, she sunk even lower when she suggested that the author pay to attend the company's upcoming fundraising event… right after being rejected from them!

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    I applied for a job with an organization I worked for a few years ago and had left on good terms (contract ended, and I moved away).
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    I recently noticed they had an opening, so I put a lot of effort into applying and figured I'd be a top contender. I excelled at the job and have fond memories of working there.
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    The manager had even given me a reference for another job, so it felt like a shoe-in.
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    Almost two weeks go by without an answer. I wrote a follow-up politely asking if they'd looked at my application yet. The
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    manager responded with a copy and pasted email about pursuing another candidate and provided a link to a job search site.
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    I was surprised at how informal it was, and I wrote back to ask if the real manager had written it, or maybe an employee had done the email.
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    I was sure she remembered me, so it just seemed super distant, and didn't even have a, "It's been a long time, nice to hear from you, sorry that we've already filled the role," or anything.
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    She wrote back that yes, she wrote it and admitted that "most of it" was copy and pasted so that I was sure to get the job search information.
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    Then, she added the cherry on top. She wrote, "Stop by sometime to say hi - maybe at our fundraising event," and attached a poster of an event that requires $60 to attend.
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    Um, sorry, but I don't have $60 to attend your fundraising event because I am currently without a job,
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    and you would know that by the fact that I just applied to your job! I couldn't believe the nerve of her. I just left it at that, but I am still upset about it.
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    Oh, and I should add - the job is only 20 hours a week, and she said, "We are looking for someone who won't be seeking other work." So you expect someone to work part-time and not seek other employment?
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    Probably so they can be on- call the other 20 hours. Guess I dodged a bullet, anyway. It's just super disappointing, as now my fond memories are completely washed down the drain.
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    TLDR: The manager I used to work for (and like!) rejected my application with a copy-and-paste email, and then suggested I donate to the organization while she knows I'm jobless.
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    malevolentgrymmlyn 8 hr. ago Ask her if you should no longer use her as a reference, since she'd said previously you could, but now she won't rehire you.
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    ☑Densolo44 10 hr. ago Reminds me of the time the owner of a small business I worked at for 5 years decided to sell it without warning.
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    He took another coworker and me for lunch one day and told us. We had no idea what was going to happen to us and asked him for a written reference. He said
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    he may not have time because he was leaving on a C n mission to deliver bibles to foreign nations via a ship. He then proceeded to ask if
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    we'd be willing to donate to his mission, as he had to pay for it himself. We never got the reference letters.
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