Of Resumes and Responses

Tomorrow marks another week in this terrible saga of grief and hardship. It is not made any easier by the current acceptable standard business practices regarding resumes and applications. I have lost count of the number of resumes I have sent, but it has been substantial. Of all of them only two businesses took the courtesy and the time to send me a note indicating I was passed over, rejected. I hate rejection as much as the next man, maybe even moreso given my tortured years of nerdy adolescence, but I like knowing I did not get a job, knowing I was rejected, rather than being ignored. In this world of high-tech wizardry where more and more things are becoming digital, would it be so hard to ask for a simple email to let me know to cross a company off my list of hopeful interview potentials? Would it be so time consuming to grant us this small favor? What's worse is when you submit your application and they tell you they will have no further contact with you unless they want you for the job; you spend all that time filing out the application, touching up your resume, adding your references, drafting a cover letter, only to be effectively rejected the moment you hand in your application. All of these things add up to a terrible and terrifying experience of hunting for a job. Suffice it to say I am losing all heart and hope. It would be something to get a notice that I was rejected. I had thought humanity was not yet this heartless. Was I wrong?