To think sending a job rejection e-mail at 10.45 on a Saturday night is a bit shitty?

I think it is very poor indeed.

Some people have a phone for both work and home emails, indeed at one time it was an option that was promoted at my employer (not any more once the awful CIO left and was replaced by someone interested in others not self-promotion). I receive some home emails in the evening from people who live abroad in different time zones.

Assuming it was sent on a Saturday evening, I think you should feed back.

It would have been disappointing at any time, I think you're just picking because you're disappointed.

They probably don't want to be working at nearly 11pm at night either. Although it's personal to you, to them it's just another task on their list they need to get done, and sending rejection emails is always horrible which is likely why they put it off (and why many don't send any at all).

I'm an employer and if I'd sent that to you and got a reply back where you complained about what time I'd emailed you, I'd roll my eyes and think "bullet dodged, made the right choice there."

Sorry, I know it's hard for you, but you really need to move on to the next thing asap.

Only with certain providers.

I think it was shitty too. It could’ve waited till Monday and if it wasn’t a technical delay and someone was working at that time of night doing something that could wait till Monday then that is not a good workplace so bullet missed.

I learned years ago that sending negative emails late Friday or worse, as others said, before a holiday is tactical or just plain nasty. Yet I still forget to leave them till the next work day or I think it might be a good email. And they almost always aren’t , leaving me wound up about the content and cross with myself for opening it.

I think it's rank too. Sending emails with not nice news, as opposed to nice news - you've got the job / you've got a pay rise, outside of working hours, is just not on.

It's only marginally better than being ghosted, which I was last week after being assured I'd definitely find out by the weekend.

The world doesn’t revolve around you OP. You can’t control when people send you emails. You CAN control whether you read emails or not. Turn off notifications on your phone and enjoy your Saturday night in peace.

You can set emails to send at a time you choose though, can’t you. In which case, it would seem to be deliberate.

In the past, I’ve sent emails on Friday and not noticed they were still in outbox before closing the laptop; hence not sending until I next got on WiFi. It happens.

Sorry, OP.

I wouldn't bother emailing back. They will instead call it sour grapes. Just find a way to put it past you.

Another shitty thing companies do is say, within the rejection email, "we were lucky enough to get many applications for this position." Just to hammer home how lower down the chain of undesirables your application was.

It's horrible, but that's life. Good luck for next time.

Think of it as an indication that you wouldn't have been happy in the role - because their staff are so overworked and have not been able/allowed to maintain healthy boundaries and breaks, so they're forced to work ridiculously late on Saturdays trying to make sure that the unsuccessful candidates aren't ghosted (and the person forgot to add the schedule time because they were overworked and tired).

An email to me is sent when it's sent if I don't want to read emails I don't check them until I do

This wouldn’t bother me in the slightest

I would see it as someone having to work very late from home. Perhaps they have too many responsibilities. Not all email programs have a schedule send facility.

It’s a well known bullying tactic; horrible. They’ll sometimes send it on a Friday too.

i do a lot of recruiting and often schedule decline emails in the system. I wouldn’t have a clue what time of day they go out. Saturday evening is terrible, but it might have been unintentional

My friend got an email informing her of an upcoming disciplinary at 5pm on Christmas Eve. So she could fret about it 0ver the break. That was nice.

Blimey. You seem very unreasonable to me. Someone was having to work very late and presumably thought you would want to know as soon as possible. As you say - if you don’t want to risk seeing emails that might upset you, don’t look at your emails.

I think I’d want to know as soon as possible, irrespective of the time.
Also, a lot of firms don’t even bother to let spplicants know when they haven’t been successful at interview and that is worse in my opinion.

It's not great.

As it's a generic one, I am wondering if it is sent automatically when the admin is done (matching candidate etc). If the manager has been tying up loose ends themselves in the evening it may have sent the rejection email to other candidates without the manager realising. By all means feedback because there may be something they can do (e.g. introduce a check box to send email now or later).

I know systems can be set up this way. DD was offered a retail position - it wasn't quite the one she applied for (in terms of hours) so she got really confused when she received 'unsuccessful' emails. On contacting the manager it turned out that it was once they placed the other applicant in that position it sent an email to everyone else.

Automation is great..... until it isn't.

Nothing surprises me at all with how shite HR and recruitment processes are. Its not on sending it at that time. At least you got a response either way. Times ive been left hanging. So now you know. Look at it as good interview experience. Ask for feedback and move forward. Best of luck with your job search x

Yes you do - the time it says it was sent is the time it was sent - if it was delayed it would still have the correct time showing