A Strongly Worded Letter. Or, what not to say to an HR rep after being denied employment.

Sent this in through the Dollar General "Contact Us" page today. I don't know what I'm hoping to accomplish with it, save venting my frustration.

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Hello! I was writing in regards to an application I recently filled out in-store, and the subsequent personality assessment.

I realise that these things are in place to help determine which people would be the best fit for your company, but are they not also limiting in some respects? I feel these tests provide an unfair judgement of character, as an electronically administered test isn't able to really determine what someone is like, only that their answers have placed them in an "unhireable" category. This has been a roadblock to employment for me for many years, and it has nothing to do with what kind of employee I am, only that I seem to not be able to answer the screening questions in a favourable way.

I was told by the hiring manager at a DG store that she would've liked to hire me, as I was the most promising applicant in a while, but since I failed your assessment there was nothing she could do for me, save say that I could try again in two months. The problem with that is... I don't really have that long. I've been unemployed since the end of September, and getting a job doesn't seem any easier with the economy the way it is.

That your personality test barred me from what would've been a sure position in the store is insulting, and serves as nothing more than salt in the wound. I hope that whomever reads this forwards it to any appropriate upper management, so that they may understand my plight and nothing more, and so that they can see that, sometimes, good employees are passed up for not so good employees on the basis that the latter is better able to play the system than the former. Thank you for your time.