Accidentally Copied On Her Own Rejection: 'Too Passive'

A candidate for a role at a debt-collections firm was accidentally copied on the internal email deciding her fate: the hiring manager wrote that she seemed too passive for the assertiveness the job needed, and to pass on her - misspelling it 'seems to passive,' which is mostly what the thread ended up talking about. The consensus in the comments was brisk: being screened out of a collections desk for a shortage of ruthlessness is closer to a character reference than an insult.