Re: two rejections
Hi Benj.!
You wrote:
> I still think that rejection has happened and will happen in the
> future. Rejection is when an AM or the DAM decides that a person does
> not belong. It should be called one.
That's true. The DAMs heave rejected a few people in the past, and they
use well defined terms of "hard rejection" and "soft rejection".
> However, when someone simply does not finish going through the
> application process, we should call that a canceled application or a
> deactivated or inactive application.
I totally agree. Just "cancelling" an application sounds good to me;
it's a fairly neutral term that describes exactly what is happening.
> It makes a big difference to folks who simply get busy or move on to
> other things and don't like to see "REJECTING John Doe" every time
> someone googles their name. I might have less sympathy with their
> position if we actually meant what any potentially employer, etc.,
> that reads those notices thinks it does. Can this be changed?
The only thing that needs to be changed is the NM Corner website, I
think.
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