Word: rejectionism
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A week after a violent uprising ran him out of the capital, Kurmanbek Bakiyev had been refusing to concede the presidency of Kyrgyzstan, holing up with his family and hundreds of bodyguards in the south of the country - specifically, in his native province of Dzhalalabad. Special-forces units loyal to...
The application process through which many employers put us is incredibly rigorous, designed to weed out both those who are not the most capable for the job and those who only “kinda” want it, and leave those who are both qualified and committed. This is...
This dearth of rejection letters can’t be because of a lack of time or an expenditure of unnecessary effort; it took me approximately 23 seconds and zero brainpower to type those above three sentences. The average employer could (and probably does, for those who still do this...
Rejection is a fact of life. I can handle rejection. What I can’t handle is a higher-stakes combination of being stood up by a date without a plausible reason and being given the cold shoulder by a group of middle school girls for no reason. Believe...
So is it accurate to say that your strategy for handling this situation was to do nothing? It was not a strategy to stay married. It was a philosophy to preserve my well-being. For 20 years, I've been in a lot of pain, because I love to write...