The Ultimate Rejection Letter

A Letter Received in my In Box


Herbert A. Millington
Chair - Search Committee
412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University
College Hill, MA 34109

Dear Professor Millington,

Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I
regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me
an assistant professor position in your department.

This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually
large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field
of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals.

Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in
rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at
this time.

Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor
in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then.
Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,

Chris L. Jensen

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I really feel that my ballon has lost all its air when I have go to eSupport to get a question answered.

You want to deal personally with someone, and it is impossible to get in touch with them. Instead they send you to eSupport.

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As regulators sift through the financial rubble, there are questions about what role lavish bonuses played in the debacle.

Without knowing all the refind details of what's behind lavish bonuses, my gut reaction is that there is something terribly wrong with us as human beings. In Pitrum Sorokin's book, "The Crisis of Our Age," he talks about the different extremes that motivate societies and cutures. Each period lasts perhaps 100 years if not more. We are definitely in a period of the "me" generation, based on greed and the material world. What is for sure is that in other times, people like Bernie Madoff and any number of fat cat CEO's of large banks and investment houses that have walked away with ridiculous bonuses would have been burned at the stake or stoned to death. Society simply would not have accepted this type of behavior, and would have done something about it. It seems that in today's world, it is considered bad behavior, but not low enough to be punishable by the masses. Whether we are lacking religion or something else, we are a sick self motivated society and all for the wrong reasons. It is a pity because imagine what could be done with all that wasted money, if it was used to really help this world?

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Do you know why we "clink" our glasses before drinking?

It is the only one of the five senses that is not automatically taken into consideration when we raise a glass of our favorite elixer:

1st - We TOUCH the glass
2nd - We SMELL the drink
3rd - We SEE and analyse the Drink
4th - We TASTE the drink
5th - We HEAR the glass uniting with another to create a bond with our fellow participants.

This is the secret of thorough enjoyment and partcipation of our five senses in the act of sharing the experience of having a drink.

The Gospel

I have the chance to listen to a neighbor of mine, give a talk on her favorite subject and who, just so happens to also have a PhD. She is an executive coach, corporate executive and behavioral psychologist. She is going to talk about the following subject, “If you believe you can, you will. If you believe you can’t, you won’t.”

Now under normal circumstances, this is pretty sound advice for those of us who are looking for a formula for success in surviving life. No, not really exclusively for life, but this is the same type of advice I hear all the time from MLM gospel advocates. How convenient for these people to pick up on this line, and use it to promote joining them in their quest to expand their down line.

Under normal circumstances this type of advice does have it merits, but it is not worth applying it to things that are basically flawed from the get go. There has been a lot of discussion about MLM businesses and as I delve deeper and deeper into the subject, I am starting to see that no matter how it is presented, how “clean” and “different” promoters of MLM business present their particular sales pitch, all MLM businesses are basically huge pyramid schemes where the few feed on the plenty.

There five basic sirens that sound and one should be aware of when being pitched a product based MLM business:

1. Each person recruited is empowered and given incentives to recruit other participants of empowered and motivated recruiters recruiting recruiters – without regard to market saturation.

2. Advancement in a hierarchy of multiple of “distributors” is achieved by recruitment, rather than by appointment.

3. “Pay to play” requirements are met by ongoing “incentivized purchases,” with participants the primary buyers.

4. MLM companies pay commissions and bonuses on more “distributor” levels than functionally justified i.e. more than five levels.

5. Company payouts (commissions, bonuses etc.) per sale for the total of all up line participants’ together equals or exceed that for the person selling the product – resulting in inadequate incentive to retail and excessive incentive to recruit.

Here are five basic questions to ask yourself when you are offered the opportunity to participate in an MLM business:

1. Are participants recruited in an endless chain of participants?

2. Is advancement in the business by recruitment, rather than by appointment?

3. Are participants required to buy (or subscribe to) products and services in order to qualify for commissions or bonuses or to advance in the business?

4. Does the company pay commissions or bonuses on more than four levels of participants?

5. Does the company pay out per sale for the total of all up line participants exceeds that for the person actually selling the product?

The choice is of course up to each one of us to decide whether or not we want to take the plunge, but I am reminded of something that was once told to me by an MLM recruiter: She told me that today, it is much easier to recruit new distributors outside the United States, because here is the US people are too complicated and suspicious. She said that outside the United States people are more willing to just do it. She also said that telling people in Taiwan or Japan that if you believe you can do it, you will - is more palatable there than here in the USA.

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Who is Carl (Charlie) Heegaard?

Carl (Charlie) L. Heegaard is a formally educated independent business man who has been working for himself in a wide diverse gamma of endeavors for more than 46 years. He started working when he was 12 years old selling hand made Christmas presents, which he built in his home carpentry shop, to his neighbors and friends in Portola Valley around the San Francisco Bay Area where he was born.

He always worked to make pocket money, whether as a swimming coach, a Red Cross swimming instructor, a life guard or the manager of his local sports club. Growing up in the 1950s in California was a time when young men kept busy by working hard and playing hard and, as the saying goes living the good life of the 1950’s California.

Charlie graduated from high school, in Barrington, Illinois where his father’s job had taken him. And after a few stops and starts in his college education, Charlie graduated from college in 1970 with a degree in finance and management of Nichols College of Business Administration in Dudley, Massachusetts.

With the Vietnamese War in full swing in 1970 Charlie applied and was accepted as a Peace Corps Volunteer stationed in Ghana, West Africa. His job entailed creating credit union societies among the Ewe people in then Volta Region of Ghana.

After finishing his two year contact with the Peace Corps, he chose to get a post graduate degree in hotel and restaurant management. At that time his parents lived in Esher, Surrey, England and through his father’s help, he applied and was accepted to the Institut Internationale de Glion in Monteux, Switzerland to study cooking and hotel management for one year.

Upon completion of this course, he applied and was accepted to work for Hilton Hotels International participating in their executive training program. He had many different and divers opportunities while working for Hilton, but what most called his attention was to become an executive chef. And that is precisely what he managed to do. He worked in many different kitchens in European Hotels, and learned a tremendous amount about food, a hobby and love which he continues to enjoy today.

While in Switzerland, Charlie met his future wife. They married two years later. The ceremony took place at the city hall in Amsterdam, Holland. They have been married now for more than 34 years. This union has produced three children. All three of which are well educated professionals today.

Charlie and his new wife left their life in Europe in 1975. They arrived in Miami, Florida with the illusion of finding a job in one of the hotels on the Sun Belt. As it turned out, Charlie worked for awhile with the cruises lines sailing between the islands of the Caribbean, but it was not to last very long.

His wife, Liliana, who was originally from Colombia, SA suggested that they go and visit her family in Colombia. Being in close proximity to Miami, it was an easy flight to Bogota. Once in Colombia, their lives were to take another sharp turn. They quickly decided to try their luck in Colombia. 31 years later they have a chain of restaurants that goes by the name of Charlie’s Roastbeef, which continues to grow and prosper today.

In 1997 Charlie and Liliana decided that because of political reasons they could no longer live in Colombia, so they sold their home and moved to Miami once again.

Today, Charlie, Liliana and their dog “Max” live in Miami, Florida. Charlie continues to work in many different things, but most of all he has developed a keen interest in the internet and on line businesses. It is an on going project by which he is learning new things everyday. Time will tell where it leads him. He, and his wife continue to travel back and forth to Colombia to check on their business there.