Seriously, I get pretty tired of posts from hiring managers with lines like "you have five seconds to get my attention" and "if your cover letter starts with 'dear hiring manager,' it's going into the garbage." There's a lot of HR posts with those kind of condescending and borderline hateful shit.

Or, as found in this post, "If your cover letter is good enough to have me pull your application out of the stack, you've got a few minutes more of my attention." Oh shit! A few more minutes of his attention! When it's literally his fucking job to look over cover letters and resumes. How gracious of him.

This too: "If you cover letter says, "To Whom it May Concern," or something of that ilk, I'm not interested." Oh, I'm sorry for not spending hours and hours trying to track down the names of random resume viewers for every application, 90% of which will probably be ignored or thrown out by a computer anyway even with a specific name addressed in the cover letter. Most of the time, especially for big companies, it's impossible to know who will look over the resume or how many people will look over the resume through the hiring process. Do these people ever think cover letters are addressed this way to avoid a situation where the cover letter is addressed to the wrong person?

I don't think they realize how dick-ish it comes off when they say stuff like that, or the frustration and hate that builds when you apply to dozens of jobs, get no response, and then see HR people post stuff like this on jobs boards. I'm so sorry my cover letter wasn't addressed to a specific person. Obviously I am not worth the "few more minutes" of an HR God's time. /s

HR people, do your fucking job, read over the applications and quit being condescending assholes. Most people applying for jobs do care about the company and have the best intentions, so quit thinking people are trying to waste your precious, precious time at work.