Lunchtime Links: The art of berating someone for not hiring you

US website Dealbreaker has come into possession of an email sent to Citigroup by a candidate rejected from its summer analyst programme.

It's quite archaic and could have been written by Michael Fowke. However, it also manages to convey the notion that:

a) Citigroup is incompetent

b) The candidate is excellent

c) The candidate cares so little what Citi thinks that he's prepared to send a weird email castigating it.

Here's the email in part. To read it in full, click here.

Ah, what a pity that I missed one of the most prestigious bank in the world, and what a pity citi-group missed a mathematics genius like me, the smartest student ever in the engineering department, the one who beaten math majors in the most difficult competition in the world like idiots, and the one who astutely points out the mars existing in the Gaussian Copula and made proper corrections on it!! [Redacted]'s stupidity can surely not appreciate my conspicuously superior intellectuality. Woe to the fatuous decision, yet I humbly accpet!

Best luck with citi-bank, and I sincerely hope the trading can still flourish with those incompetent workers, with those preposterous foreclosures and ludicrous CDOs, with those avaricious vampires drying the blood of tens of thousands of poor languishing in loans and poverty! Woe!

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