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I sent a fruit basket before, and I'm under 30... but I did it after accepting the job offer
why not send one? It's about 50 cents for paper/ink/stamps. It does no harm so there is no negative to it, only positive results or indifferent results. Is 50 cents worth missing out on a job or at least being remembered positively for future openings? About the post above on manners, I could care less about manners in a thank you note, I'm not sending a wedding invitation, I'm sending a "networking" invitation. I see it as "buying" goodwill with HR/people that interviewed me, all for under $1. Being polite is nice too, send a note to help you get remembered as the polite person.
My company is hiring, and over the past few weeks I have been pulled into interviews. One thing has me really bothered: none of the candidates send thank you notes. Email or otherwise.
Do people not do this anymore? I always send a note after an in person interview. Typically on the same day, if not on the way home. Even if I didn't like tge job. It is just good courtesey in my book. One candidate didn't follow up with anyone even thogh she was interested.
Maybe I'm just "old."
So do you send thank you notes? Why or why not?
I'm 21 and my mom pushes me to send thank you notes, but I don't think I should have to because I don't understand it. Most employers don't even have the curtsey of letting the applicants know that the job position has been filled, so why should I go out of my way in thanking you?
I do not send thank you notes. There are often too many applicants that this would be a burden, and it's unlikely the note would differentiate two candidates.
I'm 21 and my mom pushes me to send thank you notes, but I don't think I should have to because I don't understand it. Most employers don't even have the curtsey of letting the applicants know that the job position has been filled, so why should I go out of my way in thanking you?
I know this is going to go away over the heads of a lot of people here, but sometimes you do things bc ofhow you are or what you want to be or how you want to think of yourself. Not because of what you get out of it from other people. Or not because other people do it in kind.
I'm a millennial with good manners (always tips well, hold doors, say please and thank you, say sir and ma'am, etc).
But employers, in general, treat employees as disposable commodities. There is very little to no loyalty. Also, like many have said, if you don't get the job, they simply don't call you (but then they will call you months later out of the blue when it's convenient for them). Where's the etiquette there?
The fact is that Baby Boomers don't understand that you grew up in a privileged society that no longer exists (partially because you, as a group, destroyed it).
Many of us younger people have manners. We just choose not to use them because it will not get us anywhere.
Agree!
I also find it hilarious that baby boomers - those whom raised the millennials - are the first to get mad about how they are as adults. Um.
I'm a millennial with good manners (always tips well, hold doors, say please and thank you, say sir and ma'am, etc).
But employers, in general, treat employees as disposable commodities. There is very little to no loyalty. Also, like many have said, if you don't get the job, they simply don't call you (but then they will call you months later out of the blue when it's convenient for them). Where's the etiquette there?
The fact is that Baby Boomers don't understand that you grew up in a privileged society that no longer exists (partially because you, as a group, destroyed it).
Many of us younger people have manners. We just choose not to use them because it will not get us anywhere.
LOL....you just contradicted yourself BIG TIME. Either you have manners or you don't, and if you have them you use them.
How are you holding doors for people, and at the same time say "we just choose not to use them because it will not get us anywhere". So you should only show manners if it can get you somewhere?
Newsflash, Baby Boomers saw a bad recession in the early 80s when many were getting out of college and couldn't get jobs, you're not the first generation to go through tough times.
None of us, and I include myself have a clue as to how tough many in this country had during the Great Depression. Not a clue.
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Originally Posted by 3littlebirdies
For starters,take some economic classes to learn about the economy and how it works so you wouldn't look silly making statements such as :
"The fact is that Baby Boomers don't understand that you grew up in a privileged society that no longer exists (partially because you, as a group, destroyed it)."
Additionally, when you have class and manners it is just a part of you and a natural way of behaving for you, so you don't choose not to have class or manners because there is nothing in for you. Either you are that person or you are not.
Thank you, either you have manners or you don't. You don't turn it on and off like a light switch. Or only use them when you can get something out of it.
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but I did it after accepting the job offer
So you should only show manners if it can get you somewhere?
