From: gooley@netcom.com (Markian Gooley)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: exchange of letters
Summary: today's job market helps unhinge my mind
Keywords: rejection, rage, hypocrisy, smarminess
Date: 15 Apr 92 23:58:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.mgzjwcm.gooley
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


[Names omitted to protect the guilty:]



			________________ U N I V E R S I T Y


				[ school seal ]

	DEPARTMENT OF
	COMPUTER SCIENCE			April 10, 1992


	Dr. Markian M. Gooley
	[address]

	Dear Dr. Gooley:

		Our Personnel Committee has received and examined your
	application for a faculty position in this department.  Although
	we were impressed with your credentials, we do not expect an
	opening for someone with your interests and experience, so it is
	unlikely that we will be able to invite you for an interview or
	extend an offer.  In the event that additional positions become
	available, we will reactivate your application and I will contact
	you again.

		Thank you very much for your interest in ___________.



						Sincerely,

					[photostat signature forged by
					 secretary, indicating that the
					 whole letter isn't even the
					 original]

						Prof. _______________
						Chairman, Personnel
							  Committee

	[secretarial glyph]


			[address of Department]

[My response:]

	Markian M. Gooley
	[address]
	[phone #]

	15 April 1992

	Prof. ______________
	Chairman, Personnel Committee
	Department of Computer Science
	[rest of address]

	Dear Prof. _____________:

	I have received your letter of 10 April.  If the members of the
	Personnel Committee were impressed with my credentials, why did
	they not at least invite me for an interview, even if someone of
	my unusual interests and admittedly limited experience is not
	precisely the sort of person they had in mind?  The fact is that
	you are telling a damned lie.  I had much rather you had written
	back that the Committee had a good laugh over my application, and 
	quoted one member to the effect that "there's no f--king way we'd
	hire a turkey like that."  Lies and hypocrisy disgust me and will
	put you at risk for eternal damnation.

	Furthermore, I resent your attempt to raise false hope in me by
	suggesting that additional positions might become available and
	that therefore I still have a slight chance of being hired by your
	adequate but highly-overrated Department.  I am well aware of the
	financial difficulties of the state government in __________, and
	we both know that you are lucky to be hiring anyone at all.  That
	even one more position should open up is exceedingly unlikely, and
	that you would even contemplate hiring me to fill it is ludicrous.
	Rest assured, however, that I will refuse any future offers.  I do
	not wish to be associated with persons of such low moral character
	and vicious behavior.

	Wishing you all a slow and painful death followed by an eternity in
	Hell, I remain,


						Cordially yours,

					    [signature in green ink]

						Markian M. Gooley
						(Ph. D., University of
						Illinois at Urbana, a
						far better school than
						any of you scum got a
						degree from)

--
Mark., somebody hire me eor I will go into a killing rage
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