Drove Across Town, Waited an Hour, Then the Form Letter

The candidate rearranged their day, drove across town, arrived early and sat there for nearly an hour. The rejection was the standard sentence — after careful consideration, the company has decided to proceed with another candidate — with no explanation attached to it, and no acknowledgement that any of the above had happened. The interview, the post notes, had already become irrelevant by the time they were sitting in the room.