Rejection is never easy. The next time you get a rejection e-mail, instead of feeling dejected, you may want to consider this tone-conscious response. It's full of positivity, well-written grammatically, and is certain to at least get a second glance from that recruiter! 

Dear Bob,

Thank you for your letter of January 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me a position in your marketing 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 your company’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 marketing assistant in your department this March. I look forward to seeing you then.

Best of luck in rejecting future applicants.

Sincerely,

Danielle

Would you dare send this? We think you should give it (or your own version) a try. ToneCheck may be able to help!

Resurrected from several places on the web like here, here, and here and edited somewhat. Know the original source? Post it in the comments!

We think so.

You've heard us share a lot about ToneCheck, and how our API can be used to measure Twitter sentiment, however another use for our Sentiment Intelligence has been on our radar for quite a while and it would appear we're not alone in seeing it's usefulness.

What if government organizations could measure their country's Gross National Happiness. An emotional index, if you will.

Every now and again someone in our network shares with us something that really gets us excited about the validation of our technology beyond the corporate world. While enjoying a holiday read of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol, a friend nearly fell out of his chair reading pages 74 and 75. Dan details a meeting of two intellects passionate about monitoring a populations response to everything from election candidates, events, or holidays or, even more interesting: before, during or following natural disasters, terrorist threats, or acts of war.

He writes: "My software," Trish explained, "was designed to help government agencies better evaluate and respond appropriately to wide-scale crisis - pandemic diseases, national tragedies, terrorism, that sort of thing."  

Pretty powerful stuff. And insightful, too. 

With real-time monitoring using our API, government would be able to do just exactly what was foretold in the book. After all, as Brown points out in the book: "Following 9/11, the government was intercepting and crunching enormous data fields - civilian e-mail, cell phone, fax, text, Web sites - sniffing for keywords associated with terrorist communications." Our API goes far beyond keywords and dives into true understanding of the emotions present in any form of text-based communication.

And, imagine how understanding the response a population might have in advance of such an event might actually allow governments to better analyze, react, and respond to it.

While we certainly haven't yet been in touch with Mr. Brown, we're fans of his work and found this coincidence too interesting not to share.

What do you think? Should governments monitor their country's Gross National Happiness? We'd be interested in your feedback on the subject.

*You can find Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol at Amazon.com. 

*For info on licensing our API, contact us at sales@lymbix.com.