No one likes to be rejected, but if you're a human being it's probably going to happen at least once in your lifetime.
Just because you may like someone that way, that doesn't mean they'll feel the same and learning to handle such things is part of growing up.
Sadly, for one anonymous Redditor, a former friend did not take rejection kindly and kept on holding that grudge.
She described the events in a post to the r/legaladvice subreddit, wondering if there was any legal course of action.
While visiting the company for a formal interview, the Redditor says that she noticed a guy she knew from college.
She says that they had been friends, but he was looking to be more than that and she didn't feel the same way about him. So they eventually lost touch.
The interview seemed to go really well and she thought she'd landed the job.
She shared a screenshot of the messages in her post.
After informing her that he's the Director of Operations and Finance, he tells her outright that she didn't get the job and that he was 100% responsible for it.
Since he wasn't involved at all in her interview process, that certainly comes out of the blue.
She explains that "not ready to settle" and his not being her "type" were the reasons she gave him for rejecting his advances in college.
His use of scare quotes makes it clear the phrasing was meant to stand out, even if he tries to play dumb at the end.
Unfortunately, the legal experts in the comments had bad news for her. Since he wasn't discriminating against her due to her gender, race, or sexuality, what he did was awful, but not illegal.
These loopholes make it possible for this kind of thing to keep happening to women across the country.
Though since he clearly has the power to veto any hiring choices, it's doubtful HR or the executive branch would do anything about it.
If they hadn't crossed paths, she may have been hired only to discover him and his grudge later when it would be harder to get away cleanly.
h/t: Yahoo! News
