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JeSuisUnHombre lemmy.zip JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-11
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I'd feel more considered if I'd gotten no email at all

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Reygle lemmy.world Reygle@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-20
#2 · Quote Reply

A US.domainname suggests it's some gigantic mega-corporation, huh?

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mfed1122 discuss.tchncs.de mfed1122@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2025-03-31
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I don't think this is AI tbh. Crap like this is where AI learned to talk like that. I've been getting these kind of emails way before LLMs were a thing

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teft piefed.social teft@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-22
#4 · (edited) Quote Reply

This reads more like a standard form rejection letter than a slop rejection letter.

Most companies would want them to be form letters so they donโ€™t end up sued by someone who thinks they were rejected for a protected reason.

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gas_station_boner_pills slrpnk.net gas_station_boner_pills@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2026-03-03
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I don't think this is AI tbh. Crap like this is where AI learned to talk like that. I've been getting these kind of emails way before LLMs were a thing

Schrodinger's em dash

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chickenf622 sh.itjust.works chickenf622@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-18
#6 · Quote Reply

I don't think this is AI tbh. Crap like this is where AI learned to talk like that. I've been getting these kind of emails way before LLMs were a thing

Yeah this screams templated email to me. You don't need an AI to sound generic, you can just use a generic template. With the number of emails they send out I seriously doubt they want to spend the money on rejection emails generated by an AI.

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paequ2 lemmy.today paequ2@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-01-21
#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

Iโ€™d feel more considered if Iโ€™d gotten no email at all

I hate when I get ghosted. A rejection email lets me close the loop with that company and move on. Otherwise, I feel like "there's still a chance!" and that's worse.

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Sergio piefed.social Sergio@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-08-01
#8 · Quote Reply

Same energy.

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JeSuisUnHombre lemmy.zip JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-11
#9 · Quote Reply

I don't think this is AI tbh. Crap like this is where AI learned to talk like that. I've been getting these kind of emails way before LLMs were a thing

I still think this one is AI, but either way the way this worded feels very patronizing. Just a completely hollow message. Should probably cross post to work reform or something.

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Unleaded8163 fedia.io Unleaded8163@fedia.io
Joined: 2023-09-12
#10 · Quote Reply

Not AI. I've gotten enough emails exactly like that to know that its a form letter provided by the recruiting platforms. AI is never that consistent.

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๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐ŸŒ€ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ณ ๐Ÿ‡ฆ ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ฎ pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
Joined: 2024-10-06
#11 · Quote Reply

"Ew. Ew brotha, ewwww. We don't want you. You stinky. GTFO and never apply again, poopyhead."

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JeSuisUnHombre lemmy.zip JeSuisUnHombre@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-11
#12 · Quote Reply

"Ew. Ew brotha, ewwww. We don't want you. You stinky. GTFO and never apply again, poopyhead."

Hey at least that'd be funny

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Jyek sh.itjust.works Jyek@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-01
#13 · Quote Reply

This is how they've done rejections for the last 25 years. Form letters. Not AI in this case. Also waayyyyy better than being ghosted. When you're ghosted, you have no idea if they saw your application or if they're still considering or what. There's an anxiety that a job offer could come through after you accept another offer and what if they offer a bit more money? It becomes a whole thing. Honestly, I'd rather receive an actual AI rejection than be ghosted.

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Themosthighstrange lemmy.world Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-27
#14 · Quote Reply

Im tired of the media still trying to convince us the econmy is good when we are clearly in a depression and the worst job market sine the 2008 crash.

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Casterial lemmy.world Casterial@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-02-27
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This is how they've done rejections for the last 25 years. Form letters. Not AI in this case. Also waayyyyy better than being ghosted. When you're ghosted, you have no idea if they saw your application or if they're still considering or what. There's an anxiety that a job offer could come through after you accept another offer and what if they offer a bit more money? It becomes a whole thing. H...

As I continued to bolster my skills, resume and connections any company that ghosted me I've ghosted or blacklisted.

Now, 10 years later with an in-demand skill set I have companies reach out to interview, and if it's a company who's ghosted me in the past I either ghost them, or tell them "Due to past experiences of being ghosted by your company, I won't interview."

I really do encourage people to just treat these companies the same, don't give them the time of the day.

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itstoowet lemmy.world itstoowet@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-06
#16 · Quote Reply

I'm a recruiter, this is 100% their default rejection template. It's pretty standard, but at least they let you know! I've been looking for a new role lately and you're lucky to get that DQ email and not just ghosted.

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egrets lemmy.world egrets@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-14
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A US.domainname suggests it's some gigantic mega-corporation, huh?

Nah, that's the subdomain, it could be the start of any company's email address -- you could happily own and send from hello@us.reygle.com, for example.

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IronBird lemmy.world IronBird@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-06
#18 · Quote Reply

Im tired of the media still trying to convince us the econmy is good when we are clearly in a depression and the worst job market sine the 2008 crash.

bu...but the lines are going up!

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Themosthighstrange lemmy.world Themosthighstrange@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-27
#19 · Quote Reply

bu...but the lines are going up!

Not for you , they are going down for you personnally

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IronBird lemmy.world IronBird@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-06
#20 · (edited) Quote Reply

Not for you , they are going down for you personnally

honestly...my lines are going up crazy good, stock market is honestly easy as fuck way to make $ in a bull market, to a point.

little bit of risk tolerance and basic understanding of underlying market mechanics (legal and technically not legal) makes gambling like shooting fish in barrel, but there are scaling/reward for time-effort issues past like 6 figs

the "pros" do challenges like "how quickly can i turn this 500$ account into 50k", just for shits and giggles.

all these rich cunts ratfucking our public funds all the time through backroom deals? all of them (and just rich people in general) throw their $ into the stock market cause they have nowhere else to spend it, building various bubbles because our market rules are designed to be exciting to "facilitate liquidity". eventually, republicans come into power and play disaster capitalist, force austerity (bear market) onto everyone but themselves, specifically to stress the system with the goal of purposefully popping the bubbles. neolibs on the dem side do the same thing, but stop just short of purposefully collapsing the economy.

we have done this cycle many times over by now.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator is a pretty good entry into the subject, for anyone curious or thinking "surely it can't be that easy, your exaggerating"...is basically a tongue in cheek guidebook to trading like Wolf of Wallstreet, written over 100 years ago

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gilokee lemmy.world gilokee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#21 · Quote Reply

Schrodinger's em dash

There's no space between the dash though. AI does em dash like -- this, and the email did it like--this.

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teft piefed.social teft@piefed.social
Joined: 2025-07-22
#22 · (edited) Quote Reply

There's no space between the dash though. AI does em dash like -- this, and the email did it like--this.

That's not an em dash in your comment. In the email it looks to be an em dash.

Here are the three dashes: em dashes (โ€”), en dashes (โ€“) , and hyphens (-)

It's the width that makes the em dash so noticeable in ai content.

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gilokee lemmy.world gilokee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#23 · Quote Reply

That's not an em dash in your comment. In the email it looks to be an em dash. Here are the three dashes: em dashes (โ€”), en dashes (โ€“) , and hyphens (-) It's the width that makes the em dash so noticeable in ai content.

I know, but you know what I meant. It's the spaces next to the em dash which scream AI. If there aren't spaces, then it's probably not AI.

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corsicanguppy lemmy.ca corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2023-06-12
#24 · Quote Reply

I'm a recruiter, this is 100% their default rejection template. It's pretty standard, but at least they let you know! I've been looking for a new role lately and you're lucky to get that DQ email and not just ghosted.

Yeah. I'll take a soft-no form letter if they ditched me vs the ghosting i got last time around.

A dear friend on the last of her reserves is waiting to hear from one of the last few interviews she'll get in her house if she doesn't land something within weeks. And she loves that house. We don't have the heart to tell her they've ghosted her since Friday as it'll break her.

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ZDL lazysoci.al ZDL@lazysoci.al
Joined: 2025-06-06
#25 · Quote Reply

honestly...my lines are going up crazy good, stock market is honestly easy as fuck way to make $ in a bull market, to a point. little bit of risk tolerance and basic understanding of underlying market mechanics (legal and technically not legal) makes gambling like shooting fish in barrel, but there are scaling/reward for time-effort issues past like 6 figs the "pros" do challenges like "how qui...
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IronBird lemmy.world IronBird@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-09-06
#26 · (edited) Quote Reply

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eh, when all the algos turn off is cheapest time to buy. long as your not shorting stuff/otherwise trading on margin/overexposed to debt-laden companies, it's pretty much a non-issue

granted, that also takes the ability to ignore your emotions as well. it's easy to tell yourself your not gonna sell/try to time a bottom or something but it's another to see like half your life savings dissappear in a day.

is why alot of rich people just pay others to manage their money (especially if they know how many behind the scenes games), keeping emotion out of it takes practice. tends to be an expensive lesson learned the first time around.

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icosahedron ttrpg.network icosahedron@ttrpg.network
Joined: 2023-06-24
#27 · Quote Reply

There's no space between the dash though. AI does em dash like -- this, and the email did it like--this.

i usually put spaces around em dashes because it's slightly more readable. i hate LLMs so much

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gilokee lemmy.world gilokee@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-16
#28 · Quote Reply

i usually put spaces around em dashes because it's slightly more readable. i hate LLMs so much

right, good, that's also for humans to do. But LLMs exclusively do it that way too.

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Angryhumanoid fedinsfw.app Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app
Joined: 2026-02-21
#29 · Quote Reply

What specifically makes this AI? They've been sending emails like that for years if not decades.

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