If I thought anyone was going to read it, I would feel less bad about writing them.
this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2026
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I just use AI to summarize it for me so it takes less time to read it.
2026 is all about burning gasoline to drive into an office instead of using the infrastructure that was proven to allow WFH, while forests are burning from global warming and countries are running out of oil. All so you can read and AI summary of something written by another AI.
Not judging you, ya gotta do what you gotta do to pay the bills. Just remarking at how absurd the world has become.
I wish I never looked at your username.
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Why ARE cover letters still a thing??
The more willing someone is to jump through hoops to get a job, the less likely they are to demand to be paid what it's worth.
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Confirms candidate knows what job they have applied for, can read simple instructions like "send cover letter", also vibe / culture check.
Abuse me harder, Corpo Daddy 🫦
Congratulations, you've passed the vibe check.
I get that the grind looking for a job can be tough.
As a small business with just 3 or 4 staff hiring is also tough.
Hiring the wrong person is very, very costly.
I dont think that asking for confirmation that an applicant has read the job advert is "abuse", but if you do then there's no need to apply I guess.
It’s not just your small business though. It’s Every. Single. Application.
Could I use a template? Actually probably not as more and more businesses are asking for specifics in the cover letters to combat templates and AI use.
To the business owner it’s only a few minutes to write cover letter, but when people are applying for dozens of jobs a day, that all ask for unique responses, and quizzes, and forms that are identical to the CV you are required to upload, it gets very hard to write an even vaguely inspired response to “why do you want to sell kebabs out of my food truck for minimum wage?”
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Sure, I am going to take unpaid time to write your little essay to pass your paternalistic test. "Oh it should only take a couple of minutes to write", I hear you say. It would also only take a couple of minutes to talk to me. Must not be serious about working with peers.
Oh man.
I'm hiring right now. I've had more than 100 applicants and spent about 2 days reviewing them and asking screening questions in chat.
I didn't reject any on the basis that they did not provide a cover letter, but in those cases I did need to ask more questions to try to get some idea of who the candidate was.
It takes a lot more than a couple of minutes to talk to someone. Even short interviews take a minimum of 30 minutes because I need to arrange a time, then talk, then make some notes. I'd say an hour is more reasonable estimate.
I'm not quite sure what that jab about working with peers means.
I understand your situation might involve dealing with countless asshole corporations who are intent on exploiting you, but it's a mistake to conclude that every employer the world over is the same.
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I dont think that asking for confirmation that an applicant has read the job advert
Honestly there are way less annoying and time consuming ways to do this for you and the applicant, like just including a line in the posting "To confirm you've read the job description, all interested applicants should apply via emailing their resume to x@y.com with the job title and location in the subject line," or something.
Cover letters are complete bullshit as they are currently used. If I were applying to a management role in a niche industry, or something in the C-suite or other positions one would only get after advancing a fair bit in their career, I can understand the point of a cover letter. When the hardware store wants a cover letter for their part-time cashier position or Taco Bell wants one for their shift manager job? They can get fucked, everything relevant to the candidate's suitability for the role ought to already be in their resume, and at that point companies are just seeing who's willing to degrade themselves the most and jump through the most hoops.
When everyone and their dog wants me to write them a cover letter telling them how it's been my lifelong dream to have chance to listen to middle-aged ladies go apeshit over some coupon not scanning right in my new post as a Joann Fabric Cashier (<12 hour per week position), I cannot be bothered with it. At this point, it's become so stupidly widespread beyond roles where it would actually be useful, I refuse to write them on principal and just assume that if a company rejected my application on that basis, they're the sort of clueless people I wouldn't want to work for anyway.
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When I was a hiring manager, I treated it like a writing test to make sure people were basically literate. Reading and writing was super important in the field I was hiring for. I couldn't get the same from a resume. That was before everybody was using AI to lie about everything to everybody else.
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Cos of the Boomer Managers. Boomers are allergic to changes lol
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With Claude my cover letters take all of 15 minutes to "write." It's like the old Soviet adage (slightly adjusted): They pretend to read them, so we pretend to write them.
funny how literally the only thing i consistently see AI being useful for is the pointless bullshit tasks that don't accomplish anything but the further complication of shit that didn't need to be so complicated in the first place. such as busywork. They're jerking us around to waste our time so i see no reason to treat their time as though it's particularly valuable either; turnabout is fair play, after all.
As a EUrangutan I had to google what a cover letter means and now I am depressed.
Are your CVs typically just bullet points about experience and education?
I think it depends on the country and industry. I never ever had to write a cover letter, but then again most of my jobs the company recruiters found and messaged me instead of the other way around. On the other hand one of my friends had to recently write a detailed cover letter and heavily customize their CV for every job they applied to.
Yes, makes it easier for the recruiter. that's how it's taught at school, too. At least was, haven't been in school for a while but have applied for jobs using this format.
Sometimes they ask to write a small letter about how you think you are right for this job. I thought that was the cover letter. It's not supposed to be very long.
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I honestly don’t know. I found my job through an employment agency, I worked there a few months and they offered me a permanent contract. I said yes and that was nine years ago.
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I've definitely seen cover letters in some job postings in the eu
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'hey losers. looks like you need shit to get done. hire me or stay sucking. peace out'
(actually i'm contemplating falsely applying to jobs i have no intention of actually seeking and literally using this as my cover letter just to see if anything funny happens...)
(i like the job i already have)
3 reasons you need an employee
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You can't do it yourself
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You don't have time to do it yourself
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You really don't want to do it yourself
Your move boss-man.
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"I noticed you need workers and have money. What a coincidence, I have work and need money. Trade?"
No, of course not. I also need you to be miserable. A fair trade won't help me break your spirit. Maybe beg a little and kiss my ass and I'll consider it.
But how will they know that you want the job?
An unfathomable mystery
Because my ChatGPT cover letter has a direct shortcut to their AI-addicted brains.
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My first job out of college was back in the days when you bought a newspaper and looked in the classifieds.
I set up a mail merge in word to generate cover letters for hundreds of jobs. Each entry in the database had a single sentence related to the job to make the cover letter look like it was written just for that job.
Years after I was hired, my boss told me that they received hundreds of applicants, but I stood out because I took the time to write a cover letter to go with my resume.
It was an IT job, so I always figured it was less cheating and more a confirmation of my skills.
Now we use AI to write resumes and cover letters for every possible eligible job listing that will all get read by AI thousands at a time. And it will still be a shit job that doesn't pay you enough to live on.
Please find attached my AI generated resume in response to your AI generated job listing.
Even better, each job app asks for something specific so you have to alter or re-write your cover letter hundreds of times for the hundreds of apps you have to submit to get a single shitty job.
Or they have a questionnaire, so instead of just submitting the cover letter and resume you've painstakingly constructed (and probably having to alter those), you have to type a paragraph long answer for each of the questions, amounting to at least another page or two you have to generate every. single. time.
I work in IT and essentially every job app had a questionnaire.
That way when you get a job you feel like you've won some sort of dystopian lotto and are just happy you aren't starving in a gutter. Feels intentional.
I once send single empty page pdf file and during call hr assumed their pdf viewer was broken. I haven't denied it.
Then your cover letter should say that.
I wouldn't mind at all, if I had any hope whatsoever that they would give a single shit about what I wrote other than to check if I actually did it. In fact, places that require it are less likely to accept me, in my experience. They just want to seem exclusive and important.
Is this an actual option?
I’ve had to eat a whole bus tire in a job interview.
Last year I applied for my second job ever. My resume was comprised of 12 years working the same unskilled minimum wage job. I had a high school education. No technical certificates or anything like that... Wtf do I even do for a resume, besides
Name
phone number
email address
Professional experience: can read and follow simple instructions, can stack boxes
Thankfully the place was desperate for more employees and reading/following simple instructions was enough to get me through my probationary period. Turns out being of roughly average intelligence is enough to make it in life
funny story: once i sent a generic cover letter to a bunch of entry-level jobs. one responded that i didn't tailor the cover letter to the position, so i changed the title and sent them the same cover letter. they didn't respond lol
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