Jessica Liebman Ajessicaliebman Follow Hey I Wrote Something! I've Been Hiring People for 10 Years and I Still Swear Bya Simple Rule if Someone Doesn't Send a Thank You Email Don't Hire Them I've Been Hiring People for 10 Years and I Still Swear by a Simple Rule if S an Executive Managing Editor Who Has Hired Hundreds of People Believes Candidates Who Send Thank You Emails Show They Want the Job Businessinsidercom Muging M Zhang Follow White People's Fixation on Inconsequential Social Norms Is a Way to Structurally Keep Out Non-White People Who Lack the Cultural Capital and Privilege to Know Every One of These Inane Social Rules We're Supposed to Perform to Be Granted the Jobs and Resources We Fucking Deserve Jessica Liebman Hey I Wrote Something! I've Been Hiring People for 10 Years and I Still Swear by a Simple Rule if Someone Doesn't Send a Thank You Email Don't Hire Them Businessinsidercomhow-To-Write-T Muqing M Zhang Follow as People Who Lack White or Class Privilege Know Not Possessing This Cultural Capital Causes Intense Anxiety and Alienation Networking Events Office Small Talk Interviews Are Often Dreadful Experiences Bc We're Being Judged According to Rules That Were Set Up for Us to Fail Muqing M Zhang Follow Everyone Who Has Experienced the Dread & Anxiety of Being in a Room Full of Privileged White People and Literally Not Knowing What They're Talking About and Second Guessing Everything You Do Knows That These Proper Politeness Rules Are Just a Way to Alienate & Marginalize Us Muqing M Zhang Follow Muingmzhang These Social Norms of the Dominant Group Create Intense Emotional Strain for Marginalized Peoples They Cause Immense Mental Labor for Us to Learn and Mimic These Behaviors Fear That Resources Will Be Withheld and Anxiety When We Can't Contort Ourselves to Fit Their Demands Thesunshineshow Kushonthecoast Siryouarebeingmocked Yourpoliticsarestupid Uncommonbish THISTHISTHIS and Linguistic Prescriptivism Also Falls Into This Category Completely Pointless Historically Arbitrary Way to Keep TALENT + MERIT as Secondary Qualifiers “First Impressions Matter” My Ass Get Gen Xs Out of Hiring Positions Someone Didn’t Send a Thank You Email I Always Love It When Some Idiot Takes a Single Person’s Actions and Uses Them to Generalize About “white People” or “men” or Whoever White People’s Fixations on Inconsequential Social Norms Who Wants to Tell This Guy About Say Japanese Tea Ceremonies? In Fact This Statement Is Not Only Racist Against White People It’s Racist Against Non-Whites Too the Jobs We CENSORED Deserve Isn’t That for the Hiring Manager to Determine Not You? If You’re Throwing This Pseudoinellectual Racist Self-Entitled Tantrum Over a Single Hiring Manager Requiring a Minor Courtesy Why Would Anyone Want to Hire You? Do You Think Most White Applicants Are Automatically Going Know They Should Send a Thank You Letter? “First Impressions Matter” My Ass You…you Do Realize That Concept Isn’t Remotely Limited to Gen Xers Right? How Fucking Low Does the Bar Have to Be That Asking for a Thank You Is Too Fucking Much? Pathetic Doesn’t Even Begin to Cover It I Thought It Was Common Sense to Say Thank You for Getting Hired but It Turns Out I’ve Been a Superior High Class White Male All Along I Learn So Much on Tumblr Everyday “nonwhites Are Idiotic Caveman With Zero Basic Social Skills” Sounds Kind of Racist to Me