Mildly Infuriating

That is probably a slam dunk (minor) discrimination lawsuit. Your circumstances of birth, including the date, are not something you can be judged for.

Follow up with your ID or Birth certificate and ask "Excuse me?"

They should not censor the company name.

"Nobody was born on 4/20 except Hitler. We do not wish to hire Hitler at this time."

What always ticks me off beyond reason in mails like these is the "we genuinely appreciate your time and effort in...."

Fuck. You. With. An. Umbrella.

You don't appreciate shit, you're full of shit, yet you're too shit to even just say what you really want to say: fuck you, we don't give a damn. Because being actually honest might also be bad and cost money.

Companies like there are the worse and should all burn in hell

Glad that won't happen to me. I was born on January 6th.

This can't be real. There are so many red flags this is fake. 1) Everything is censored. 2) GIS (Google image search) lookup only shows reddit and linkedin. The linkedin post is just as vague "learned a colleague received this!" 3) It's too good to be true. it plays on current fears. 4) It's just so dumb.

Is this not completely illegal? Dunno about the USA, in the UK age is a protected characteristic and you would be fucked for trying this. If it's real ofc.

You should have left in the company name. Shame them publicly.

This is most likely fake.

If this was automated, a company automating rejection emails would never write the reason for rejection. It would be a vague excuse like "not a good fit for the role".

If this was not automated, then no recruiter would be this stupid.

Wait who puts their birthday on a resume?

Under GDPR you have a right for your application to be reviewed by a human rather than an automated rejection. Is there something like that in the country maybe?

On the one hand this is a bad that this happened to you, because the reasoning is completely idiotic.

On the other hand it can be a learning lesson that it's better to write your birthday as April 20th, and never as 4/20.

PS: Please name that company publicly. Maybe write a short mail to a website about tech news, like https://arstechnica.com or https://www.wired.com. You could also try the blog https://boingboing.net

If you're in the US and can afford it, Talk to a lawyer.

This is blatant discrimination of a immutable attribute which is a Civil Rights violation.

This is written evidence to that fact.

“Nobody wants to work anymore”

We genuinely appreciate

🤣You obviously don't you dickheads

Reminds me of my sister getting in trouble for saying she had to go at 4:20. It was deemed "unprofessional". She has a appointment, lol

I fucking despise the fact that AI almost exclusively is responsible for throwing out 99% of all resumes before they reach a human being

Well I'd certainly say they dodged a bullet

Local company? Send it to the local news. They'll jump all over a reference to end of days AI.

If that's real and in the US that's age discrimination and you can sue, and easily win, even if they say it's not your age, but the date of your birthday it still would fall under discrimination based on age.

Well, I hope that this gets someone in shit.

My dude, that is not a company you want to be working for. On the bright side.

That's embarrassing. Ping their recruitment team on LinkedIn.

"Choose a better date to be born on next time, okay?"

Historical fun fact: this is why Hitler was rejected from art school in Vienna.

That’s the great thing about AI, it’s like a human! Humans don’t need to work anymore because our computers speak like us now! It’s only ever really a problem if someone reads what AI wrote.

But if you don’t read it, wow, just look at the spacing, the typography, the paragraphs! the ~~tokens~~ words!

My oldest child was almost born on 4/20, but he decided to cook a little longer.

My wife was so relieved, lol.

Could this be considered discrimination? Rejecting applicant based on something they have no control over and unrelated to the position.

LOL! I was born on 4/20 too (and so was Hitler, btw ☹️)