14. Rejection Emails
Oh, joy. The finely-tuned art of the rejection email. Somehow they manage to very succinctly, professionally, and somehow brutally, crush your hopes of future employment, with the kind of disengaged effort that is, by true dictionary standards, effortless. Getting one can completely ruin your day - you can kind of exist in a weird, hopeful, Schroedinger's employment bubble where as long as you don't hear anything, it's possible that the job could be yours. Is there anything to do about them? Not really - people who write them are just people trying to do their own jobs, and hell your next job might well be crafting these emails to poor unfortunate souls just looking for a break. Ironic, really. Still, you delete those rejection emails and become more determined than ever to never see one again, in the manner of Scarlett O'Hara on the hills of Tara. Whether or not that actually happens is... debatable. At least you're trying.