{"id":56,"date":"2007-08-27T21:17:39","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T04:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/27\/arup-labs\/"},"modified":"2007-08-31T18:54:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T23:54:27","slug":"arup-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/27\/arup-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"ARUP Labs has rejected me."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aruplab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"ARUP Labs\">ARUP Labs<\/a> just sent me the following rejection letter:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Jed,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your interest in the Converted Candidates position with us at ARUP Laboratories.  As a result of a thorough and comprehensive candidate evaluation process, we have filled this position&#8230;  Please continue to monitor the job postings at www.aruplab.com as they may change regularly.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nHuman Resources<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This was confusing. ARUP is known to be one of the best companies for whom one can work, but I applied for this job three and a half years ago. The address in the email was four households ago. Errant <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Database_trigger\" title=\"Wikipedia: Database Trigger\">database trigger<\/a>? Or did my application temporarily get caught in an eddy of data management? And what is &#8220;converted candidates&#8221; anyway?<\/p>\n<p>Well, everyone, it looks like I am not moving back to Salt Lake City. Georgetown will just have to do.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update <\/strong>(8-28-2007): I received another letter from ARUP today. Apparently I am not going to be an entry level phlebotomist either. Despite my aversion to needles, I was still willing to give it a go. I must have really wanted to work for ARUP.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.jedbrubaker.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/blog\/arup.jpg\" alt=\"arup.jpg\" align=\"middle\" border=\"0\" height=\"53\" width=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARUP Labs just sent me the following rejection letter:<\/p>\n<p>    Dear Jed,<\/p>\n<p>    Thank you for your interest in the Converted Candidates position with us at ARUP Laboratories. As a result of a thorough and comprehensive candidate evaluation process, we have filled this position&#8230; Please continue to monitor the job postings at www.aruplab.com as they may change regularly.<\/p>\n<p>    Sincerely,<br \/>\n    Human Resources<\/p>\n<p>This was confusing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJP4m-U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatknows.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}