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Some ridiculously stupid reasons my manager has rejected people for.
The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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What should be a straightforward system of matching qualifications to requirements is regularly transformed into a bizarre obstacle course designed by people who mistake gut feelings for science and minor quirks for deep character flaws. In the pantheon of pointless human stressors, modern hiring runs just below air travel and assembling flat-pack furniture.
This peculiar tradition is built on the fantasy that organizations are staffed by astute judges of character, busily hunting for unicorns who tick every box and give good TED talk. In reality, hiring often works on a delicate combination of prejudices, mood swings, and whatever strange folklore the committee adopted over the past decade. Candidates are rejected for unexplainable reasons: the wrong number of years in an arbitrary field, too much dependence on lactose, not enough improvisational math. One hiring manager’s “lack of strategic vision” is really just disappointment that a candidate failed to recite the company’s mission statement in iambic pentameter. Entire departments collectively hallucinate corporate red flags, then congratulate each other for refusing to lower the bar to where mere mortals could clear it.
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The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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In this carnival, being denied is neither a moral failing nor a cosmic sign. It is, most of the time, evidence that the average interview panel is spinning the Wheel of Fortune and calling it discernment. The feedback is an oracle for no one, so the only sane response is to keep showing up and consider every rejection an escape from the island of nonsense.
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The image does not depict the actual subjects of the story. Subjects are models.
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