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  • It is good advice for a job seeker, mainly because so many hiring managers are lunatics.

    It’s gatekeeping. Like knowing the difference between a salad fork and a dinner fork, sending a thank you letter doesn’t demonstrate that one cares about the job, it demonstrates that at some point you were coached to send thank you letters after an interview. It weeds out qualified candidates who didn’t receive that coaching due to culture, class, etc.



  • This is the case for most “Dumb laws”: there’s an outlier that becomes kinda silly, but it’s not really worth the effort to change.

    I saw one “It’s illegal to hunt Blue Whales in Idaho”. Because it’s illegal to hunt endangered species in Idaho, and Blue Whales are endangered, not because legislators were super concerned about saving Idaho’s whale population.