I just got another rejection letter

[ksacres]

**shakes head**

Another victim of the highly contagious and nearly incurable "entitlement syndrome". So sad.

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

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It appears to me, maybe you need to get your priorities straight. If you are actively searching for a job, and rely on email notifications, then you need to check and respond daily, if not twice daily. The market place if tough right now, and only the tough will get jobs.
So, now that you are well, maybe you need to stop complaining and put your energies into revamping your resume, honing your interview skills and beating the sidewalks to potential employers. There are may minimum wage jobs out there, get out and get one, maybe adjust you aditude toward positive.
Like someone else said earlier, getting more education is great, but it also makes it tougher to find good employment. If you can't handle the rejection and the diligence it takes to find a low paying job, how will you compete when there will be much more expected of you?

 

[tellynpeep]

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It's certainly not illegal to give a bad reference, but employers have been sued by prior employees to whom they have given bad references . So many employers are reluctant to give any references at all (beyond the "yes, that person did work here.")

 

[TexasVet]

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It's certainly not illegal to give a bad reference, but employers have been sued by prior employees to whom they have given bad references . So many employers are reluctant to give any references at all (beyond the "yes, that person did work here.")

It's not illegal to answer the question, "Is this person eligible for rehire at your company?" If the answer is NO, the caller knows you had a problem employee. Nothing else needs to be said.

Kathy, Bellville TX
www.CountryChickens.com

 

[klf73]

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ksacres I like you!

 

[ksacres]

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ksacres I like you!

"Swine flu" ain't got nothin' on this pandemic...

 

[debilorrah]

I'm gonna say something here. I think we have made our point to Tala. There is no need to bash her. Hopefully she will take the information handed to her and use it positively.

 

[flopshot]

take what ddawn and ksacres has said to heart and you'll find things will start to go your way. school may preffer to teach that there are no winners or losers, no failures if you try hard. you'll find out that in the real world those theories don't play out too well.

i have this posted on my office wall. Bill Gates, eleven things they don't teach in school:


Rule 1: Life is not fair…get used to it.

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.


Rule 3: You will NOT make $40,000/year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a cell-phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss. He
doesn’t have tenure.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a word for flipping burgers-they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up it’s not your parents fault, so don’t whine about
your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are
now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and
listening to how cool you are. So before you save the rain forest from the
parasites of your parents’ generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life
hasn’t. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give
you as many times as you want to get the answer right. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers and
Christmas break off, and very few employers are interested in helping you
find yourself. Do that on you own time.

Rule 10. Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to
leave the coffee shop and go to work.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.



hope things work out for you.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

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It's certainly not illegal to give a bad reference, but employers have been sued by prior employees to whom they have given bad references . So many employers are reluctant to give any references at all (beyond the "yes, that person did work here.")

When I was doing hiring, the people whose past employers gave the
"Yes, that person did work here" line got their resume's put into the "If we dont find anyone . ANYONE! else" pile.
To us it meant.
"We really want to tell you this person was a lazy and awful employee. But legally we cant"

 

[Davaroo]

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Agreed. We can be constructive and helpful, even if it means baring some harsh reality... I like the Bill Gates thing, for example.

But bashing is considered naughty here at BYC.