Bond Dickinson has demonstrated the perils of the reply-all button after copying a job applicant into an internal email discussing his rejection.

The lawyer had applied for a position in the firm at the beginning of June, and this week he chased for news of his application. Almost immediately he received a reply in his inbox. Sadly, it was bad news - and worse, it wasn't even addressed to him but was an internal email promising that he would be rejected later. The unimpressed candidate replied "Don't bother".

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Adam told RollOnFriday, "It is always refreshing for an out-of-work lawyer to know that his applications for legal roles are being carefully handled by competent staff within law firms. With such attentive and considerate treatment of candidates, I have no reason to doubt that I will find a commercial role in the near future". It could have been worse. They could have called him thick instead of just "reject". And at least he got a response in less than five years.

A spokewoman for Bond Dickinson said, "Clearly this was human error and the firm is very sorry that this applicant should find out they had been rejected for a position in this way. An apology email was sent to the applicant at the time".
 
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Comments

Anonymous 25 July 14 11:04

Yes, it should have been written with a quill on a scroll and sent by the quickest pony express. Or by email so he got it immediately.

Anonymous 25 July 14 14:35

"He is reject". Appalling! Human error my left nipple. Arrogant and shoddy manners, you betcha!

Anonymous 25 July 14 16:32

This could have happened at any firm. Bond Dickinson does a very good line at feeling sorry for itself though...

Anonymous 25 July 14 16:37

This is clearly fake just looking at the email times. Obviously a smart-arsed candidate who got rejected and is trying to make the firm look bad when it actually vindicates their decision not to hire him

Anonymous 25 July 14 16:53

It's not fake - their email is actually 4 minutes after his. Their email is time stamped as GMT hence it says +0000. His time is in real time (summer time). Their email was therefore sent at 11:49 rather than 10:49.

Lawyer-ed.

Anonymous 28 July 14 15:39

Regrettable as the response was, would anyone else not immediately reject Adam, even if he hadn't already been rejected thus far, on the basis that the style and content of his email comes across as a bit stupid and/or terse?

Anonymous 28 July 14 17:45

"It is always refreshing for an out-of-work lawyer to know that his applications for legal roles are being carefully handled by competent staff within law firms. With such attentive and considerate treatment of candidates, I have no reason to doubt that I will find a commercial role in the near future".

Adam seems to struggle with basic sentence structure and logic; perhaps Adam needs to revisit his perception of why he is perpetually reject.

Anonymous 28 July 14 18:34

I really think you can judge the standard of legal advice provided by a law firm by the ability of a member of their HR department. Oh hang on...

Anonymous 29 July 14 15:34

Good to see the firm's vision and values played out in reality by clearly valuing applicants. They probably treat clients the same behind the scenes.

Anonymous 31 July 14 22:30

Very restrained response from Adam. This farce merited the dirtiest of dirty protests.

Anonymous 02 August 14 19:35

What a load of bollocks. As if anyone here hash't ever hit "reply all" by accident.

Naturally, I have not. But you monkeys must have.

The applicant comes out of this looking like a moron in my view.