A Talent Whines
This is just a little bit of a personal peeve: I recently applied to perform at an art show (which I will not deign to connect with here via URL). It was a fairly easy application process, sending a short email description along with some sites where my performances could be seen.
I didn’t get in. How do I know this? Not because they let me know; no, they simply posted on their website “If you haven’t heard from us yet, you probably didn’t get in.”
“Probably”? Probably? In the days when you had to send out form letters via post, I could see not having the money to actually respond to all the applications. However, in this age of email and automated replies and cut-and-paste, an actual acknowledgement of the application and a polite “No, thank you,” would be appropriate. The fact that they seem too absorbed to even do this level of polite communication with the artists makes me think that the actual show is probably rather
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