This person's rejection reason

That is probably a slam dunk (minor) discrimination lawsuit. Your circumstances of birth, including the date, are not something you can be judged for.

Follow up with your ID or Birth certificate and ask "Excuse me?"

They should not censor the company name.

"Nobody was born on 4/20 except Hitler. We do not wish to hire Hitler at this time."

What always ticks me off beyond reason in mails like these is the "we genuinely appreciate your time and effort in...."

Fuck. You. With. An. Umbrella.

You don't appreciate shit, you're full of shit, yet you're too shit to even just say what you really want to say: fuck you, we don't give a damn. Because being actually honest might also be bad and cost money.

Companies like there are the worse and should all burn in hell

Glad that won't happen to me. I was born on January 6th.

This can't be real. There are so many red flags this is fake. 1) Everything is censored. 2) GIS (Google image search) lookup only shows reddit and linkedin. The linkedin post is just as vague "learned a colleague received this!" 3) It's too good to be true. it plays on current fears. 4) It's just so dumb.

Is this not completely illegal? Dunno about the USA, in the UK age is a protected characteristic and you would be fucked for trying this. If it's real ofc.

This is most likely fake.

If this was automated, a company automating rejection emails would never write the reason for rejection. It would be a vague excuse like "not a good fit for the role".

If this was not automated, then no recruiter would be this stupid.

You should have left in the company name. Shame them publicly.

Wait who puts their birthday on a resume?

Under GDPR you have a right for your application to be reviewed by a human rather than an automated rejection. Is there something like that in the country maybe?

On the one hand this is a bad that this happened to you, because the reasoning is completely idiotic.

On the other hand it can be a learning lesson that it's better to write your birthday as April 20th, and never as 4/20.

PS: Please name that company publicly. Maybe write a short mail to a website about tech news, like https://arstechnica.com or https://www.wired.com. You could also try the blog https://boingboing.net

If you're in the US and can afford it, Talk to a lawyer.

This is blatant discrimination of a immutable attribute which is a Civil Rights violation.

This is written evidence to that fact.

We genuinely appreciate

🤣You obviously don't you dickheads

“Nobody wants to work anymore”

I fucking despise the fact that AI almost exclusively is responsible for throwing out 99% of all resumes before they reach a human being

Reminds me of my sister getting in trouble for saying she had to go at 4:20. It was deemed "unprofessional". She has a appointment, lol

If that's real and in the US that's age discrimination and you can sue, and easily win, even if they say it's not your age, but the date of your birthday it still would fall under discrimination based on age.

Well I'd certainly say they dodged a bullet

Local company? Send it to the local news. They'll jump all over a reference to end of days AI.

Well, I hope that this gets someone in shit.

My dude, that is not a company you want to be working for. On the bright side.

That's embarrassing. Ping their recruitment team on LinkedIn.

"Choose a better date to be born on next time, okay?"

Historical fun fact: this is why Hitler was rejected from art school in Vienna.

That’s the great thing about AI, it’s like a human! Humans don’t need to work anymore because our computers speak like us now! It’s only ever really a problem if someone reads what AI wrote.

But if you don’t read it, wow, just look at the spacing, the typography, the paragraphs! the tokens words!

Could this be considered discrimination? Rejecting applicant based on something they have no control over and unrelated to the position.

LOL! I was born on 4/20 too (and so was Hitler, btw ☹️)

My oldest child was almost born on 4/20, but he decided to cook a little longer.

My wife was so relieved, lol.

There are people laughing at them for not hiring someone born at 20th of April , very same folks riding elevators and not finding weird that the 13th floor is missing.

So the email validation guy is also writing date validation code?

“respect” and “professionalism” yeah

That's because they're using the wrong date format.

/s

That is what you get for having the same birthday as Hitler.

I don't understand why the name of the company is redacted. They chose to send this letter, let 'em own it.

Fake as fuck

Lol I’m just imagining whomever told AI to do this must have had a bad date with a Taurus. Your chakras are all wrong!!

Sue them for age discrimination and watch their lawyers sweat awhile.

Damn, hopefully that won't happen to me. I was born on June 9th

Honestly, they might even consider it fortunate that the company showed them it's cards now and not when they're their actual employer. Dodged a bullet.

that's unfortunate. sure looks like they could use some competency in the area applied-for.

I would spam them with even more "inappropriate" but equally plausible applications out of sheer pettiness and the vain hope that a real person would see it and realize that using AI to screen job applications is an awful idea.

I mean that's what you get for writing the date wrong :)

If that’s not a reason to write your dates in a less unhinged format, I don’t know what is.

That is what happens when you don't write your birthday in the correct format you filthy barbarian

So, uh, what was on 4/20?

People: “AI is going to take over the world!”

AI:

Please, there are humans living in other countries too. Use DDMMYYYY or YYYYMMDD format.

Ignoring my first instinct, I tried to imagine some context to this, and if someones linkedin profile says he is in his 30s with a lot of experience, but somehow after applying, they got a cv of a 20 year old with little experience, it put them into a situation where the first impression based on this breaks the trust they try to build with an applicant.

It is probably still not wise to point out the age discrepancy, but i can see how I wouldn't want to work with someone who I only know for 5 seconds but already confused me.

There is a chance, the letter was written by an AI, but equaly can be a corporate template.

If it was a typo, and the difference is only a couple days, tough luck, maybe you should remove the "attention to details" part from your cv. :D

What? How old are you?

If you were normal... 20/4/19xx ... or 20th of April, 19xx. If you insist on freedom units and format, its your own fault!

Also, who knows what it was written to identify? you are all speculating. It could have been weed smokers (420) but it could also have been written to filter out the yanks...!