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Monday, October 10, 2005

Letters of Rejection

For all of you who applied, wrote letters, and called for job openings in the new Villaraigosa administration and never received even a courteous "your resume has been received" note in over 100 days and counting, we decided to take it into our own hands and draft a letter of rejection for their office to use. Now all they need to perform is a simple mail merge (instructions in case they are struggling with that step too), and the letters should be on their merry way... Besides, what else are they doing today other than more photo ops...

Dear (enter name here),

Thank you for your application.

We are sorry to notify you at this time that we do not have a position available for you.

Odds are you are either didn't donate money, aren't politically connected, or haven't taken one of my staffers to lunch. We are sorry that the position of (enter position here) isn't available at this time or has already been filled.

We also apologize for the delay in responding to your multiple inquiries. Due to the (enter excuse here -- choose from power outage, our arrogance, busy schedule full of press ops, large number of applications, laziness, or employee shortage), we have been unable to process this simple note letter.

Thank you for your time and wasting ours,
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa

17 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Finally! Now I can't take that job on the Jim Alger campaign in good faith.

October 10, 2005 8:07 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Mayor Sam that is hilarious. Sadly, I'm sure the rejection letter from the mayor's office would be very close to the same thing.

October 10, 2005 8:17 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

This one was done by Mayor Frank!

October 10, 2005 8:49 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

How about an update on where the Hahn staffers ended up working.

October 10, 2005 9:12 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

BINGO!

Don't call us. . . period! But then what self-respecting wonk would want to work for a mayor who can't stay on the same issue long enough to finish a complete sentence, let along SOLVE it.

October 10, 2005 10:43 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

How about calling on Hahn to send the same letter after he was sworn into office.

Or even Riordan --did they send out letters of rejection, NO.

Neither Riordan or Hahn sent out the letters, and considering that over 4,000 folks applied not the 520 that applied for Hahn i think its fine that the new Mayor save taxpayers the money of paper and postage and NOT send the letters.

October 10, 2005 10:58 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Candidates wasted their time, the decisions were made long, long ago.

Wake up!

October 10, 2005 11:15 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

How about looking at how the new commissioners are doing in office. Is there really much of a difference, or is it all just window dressing anyway?

October 10, 2005 11:15 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Window Dressing.

Anon in the know

October 10, 2005 11:24 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

10:58 a.m.

Hahn got kicked out, because AV
said he's DO BETTER (now you want to hold the same yardstick up to them both?) Piffle!

AV actively solicited applicants, made another big "PR" game out of it for show. That's insulting to applicants, and the city.

So, spring for the $1,000 bucks for a form letter sent bulk, it on't break the city. They spend that on car fare for AV's entourage to go to LAX in a junk-it. Especially if you give a rodent's behind about the time spent by people who foolishly wanted to join AV's "Fleece Corps".

But then, what about AV's first 100 plays (not a typo) hasn't been just for show, just PR, and insulting to the true believers' expectations.

October 10, 2005 11:55 AM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

The letters are in English?

October 10, 2005 12:15 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

South American language too.

October 10, 2005 12:38 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Interesting you say its been an insult.

Recent polling has his favorables in the high 70's to low 80's.

Unfavorables don't even break 10 percent.

Have fun popping the bubble, ain't going to happen though.

October 10, 2005 2:31 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

what are you talking about prev. anon.

can you explain to us LAUSD grads.

October 10, 2005 2:48 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Only people who are really paying attention (which is typically less than 10 percent), are going to have "unfavorable" reactions to someone who HASN'T DONE ANYTHING YET!

The erosion has already begun, however. There won't be any "bubbles" bursting, just a gradual, unending decline until he just doesn't matter any more.

(OH, and its non-transferable, even still, Jose... sorry!)

October 10, 2005 3:16 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

...which is why you move on to the next job before the people have a clue you did nothing in this one!

October 10, 2005 6:52 PM  

Anonymous Anonymous said:

Tick, tick, tick, MAV!

Get's the mailers ready. Your handlers are starting to run out of photo-op ideas.

October 10, 2005 7:30 PM  

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