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I read the post, it seems someone cancelled a meeting and the candidate got a little antsy, then started using a type of language that scared off the employer.

Nothing in the posts seems extremely outrageous to me, they could have been nicer to him ... but let's be serious.

As a matter of fact, after reading the post I would not hire this candidate either - to be honest. Something feels very odd -like essential information has been left out.

He seems like someone that thinks very highly of themselves, always a bad sign.

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Got the same impression. If the person writing himself wasn't able to frame this in a way favorable to him, I don't think we even need to know the other side of the story.

Sounds like the guy needs of a dose of Raylan Givens: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."

Here is my reply to Jacob when the meeting was cancelled. Would you call this antsy language?:

FYI: Calendly is not a very reliable piece of software. When I went to reschedule the meeting, it said it was cancelled. I'm sure she sent her note through it and Calendly just didn't cancel the meeting on my calendar, which I've experienced several times while using it. Not Laila's fault at all. No hard feelings.

Just want to push forward :)

Are read receipts common at a certain level? I was under the impression they were extremely frowned upon and virtually nobody uses them.

They are a bit creepy for sure. It's strange to have entered into an adversarial relationship so suddenly, perhaps the company picked up on it and didn't want to get into an even bigger fight with this person (although, they seem to have taken it there anyway).

They’re not even reliable! Something automated might have triggered the read receipt, without the addressee actually opening (let alone reading) the email.

Nope, nothing left out.

Well, this isn’t true, clearly. The actual correspondence are left out, which is the foundation of everything.

I'm happy to share it if you'd like.

It looks like where you went wrong was replying with a screenshot of your calendar. That and the likely passive aggressive text accompanying it was probably a red flag for Jacob. The fact that you posted this drivel vindicates him.

my thoughts exactly, the whole post has a whiff of passive aggressive attitude,

all the names and accusations, it reflects extraordinarily badly on the writer, primarily

goes to show that intelligent people with hurt feelings are doing idiotic things and end up harming themselves just to "get back" to the other side

I don't doubt that you think nothing was left out ... but I am sure the other side thinks differently.

Are return receipts still a thing?

I have turned off those by default and would never return one - unless I was a candidate and really needed a job :-)

But for a candidate to be harrasing me about a return receipt ... good riddance friend

I never harassed him about a return receipt. I just get to see when he reads my emails so I know how long it takes him to respond.

It's a feature of Superhuman. Controversial for sure, but you can even enable them in Gmail. Honestly, a feature built into every Enterprise email software out there. Not uncommon at all.

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