A woman was left confused and in stitches after being rejected from a job she applied for eight years ago.
Zoe Johnson, 39-years-old and from Canterbury, was bemused when she received the alert on LinkedIn.
However, she wasn't too sad following the snub seeing as she has had time to launch a successful skincare business since she applied for the role at a school, reports the Mirror.
The blunt rejection simply read: "Hi Zoe, Thanks for reaching out, but I’m not interested."
Zoe said: "It was quite to the point and I thought of saying ‘thanks I wasn’t waiting on it’.
"It was just funny – because when you send the message on LinkedIn they can accept or reject it. She chose to reject it so I couldn’t respond to it and say anything.
"I don’t get why she bothered either all these years later? When I originally messaged her it was quite a long but polite message.
"It is just funny because it was quite short."
Zoe had applied for the teaching assistant vacancy in 2013 but presumed she had been rejected after hearing nothing.
The mum-of-two then ploughed on with her skincare business ZoeBee Beauty while working other odd jobs.
Since being founded in 2012 it really took off in 2016 and now employs six people including her husband Theo.
Although teaching assistants don't notoriously pull in big bucks, she thought that she could work the role as she was kickstarting her business. She also applied to a number of other schools at the time.
Her business is now booming and plants a tree for every order it receives. Since its creation it has planted more than 40,000 trees.
The fact that the school replied so long after the job was posted is surprising, according to investment platform Invezz.
It also said that, with huge numbers of job vacancies across the UK right now, it would be unwise for employers to be so "curt" with prospective employees.
A spokesman said: "It’s never a good idea to be rude to people applying to work for you. It won’t endear them or anyone else to apply.
"And with the market being massively in favour of workers at the moment it puts the ball firmly in their court."
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