'You were not qualified': Job candidate messages interviewer to decline role, receives unhinged response in return

Rejection is a hard pill to swallow, no matter what form it comes in. You can sugarcoat it any way you like, throw around the whole "It's not me, it's you," "It's just not a good fit," or "I really don't like the cut of your jib," and your words are still going to have the same message: "I don't want to be around you anymore, and everything is over between us." While there are certain situations where this is more cutting, such as a clandestine rendezvous with a long-time associate, it's still a brutal affront to anyone's ego, even when it comes after a first meeting, shattering any prospective future you might have imagined with the other party. And, of course, when our ego is affronted, we tend to react poorly, even the most measured and nonconfrontational among us might be pushed to such ends as not going out of our way to open the door for the other party.