Sunday, September 25, 2005

Worst Excuse For A PFO Letter

I know HR people have the job of turning people down. One of their tools to do so is the PFO ("Please Fuck Off") letter. However, as a point of interface between the company and the outside world, they have the responsibility to put a good face to the company and let people down gently and politely.

Our friendly recruiters at CitiMorgage have a different idea.

Their approach is, "Why don't we provide an excuse to turn them down that is so lame, we insult them?" as shown by the following letter lovingly delivered to my e-mail:

Thank you for your interest in CitiMortgage!
All scheduled interview times for the National Society of Hispanic
MBAS has now been filled. However, we encourage you to visit the
CitiGroup exhibition booth for more information on our job opportunities.

XXXXXXX
Recruiter


So how about scheduling an interview outside the conference if you're really interested!? Fuck CitiMortgage. My reply to them is the same to every company that turns me down (i.e. Johnson & Johnson, General Mills, General Electric, Proctor & Gamble).

It's your loss, and I'll be happy to run you down when I work for the competition.

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

don't let them get you down. we know you can do it, we're rooting for you!

Sun Sep 25, 08:47:00 PM 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't sweat it. Finding a job always take time.

Tue Sep 27, 12:35:00 AM 2005  

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