Application rejected due to being 4 minutes late

Used to work in a hr department and it amazes me people still fire in applications minutes before the deadline - if you were serious, you'd have thrown it in a day or two at least before hand - most are up a fortnight

I agree with the rest of the posters here. But I have an issue with that notice …. no excuse for putting only the closing date on the main notice and then 3 pm in the small print. If the 3 pm deadline is that important it should be up front with the date - closing date 13/2/2025 at 3 p.m. Why not spell it out? Inevitable that some will miss the small print …. yes you can argue about that but it doesn't need to be a puzzle.

Why do people leave it to the last minute?

Wrong thread?

People make mistakes all the time but not everyone makes a mistake and then moans about how unfair it is when the rules are applied.

OP fucked up (well their kid). Nothing unfair about what happened after.

Would your approach have worked? Maybe if they emailed straight away. 10 weeks later? Unlikely.

Depends on your email client. Even in the likes of gmail you can see the headers if you want (although some might be spoofed…but you can still see them)

I could send you an email backdated to yesterday, and assuming your server doesn't redirect it as spam, your client will probably show it down the list as if it came in yesterday and you missed it.

That's if you have access to all the servers along the way. Each one can only know what it received and from where. It has to take the previous ones as given.

Record scratch

"You're probably wondering how I got here"

Camera pans out to reveal person standing in Mountjoy Prison Yard

"I was late with a job application by four minutes"

I’m sure even if they could the person in HR is not on the phone like:

📞 hello IT; we just want to check the server logs to see did this job application really arrive before 3pm

I mean the very idea is silly. I’m quite sure if the OP’s daughter had followed up shortly after (not 10 weeks..) explaining they had a momentary loss of power/broadband and they apologise profusely for being 4 mins late but hope it will not be viewed negatively they would have been grand.

Her inability to submit her application on time , simply demonstrates her unsuitability and unreliability for the position. I am sure that there were numerous applicants who submitted their applications before the deadline and at least one of these applicants will be justly rewarded.