It’s recruitment season here at Yale, which means that if you’re not busy occupying Wall Street, you probably want to work there. It’s time to perfect your handshake, iron your suit, and prostrate your feeble self in front of your potential employers/overlords. At least, that’s good advice in theory. But the job-hunting process bit one (clueless? overeager?) Penn senior in the ass, when he forgot to BCC the recipients of his “hire me!” form letter, letting everyone see the litany of Wall Street firms he solicited. Oops.

As my people say, dayenu: this hot mess should have been enough to teach this guy a serious lesson in etiquette. Instead, he decided to dig his deep hole deeper: he wrote an apology.

…I realize that I have disrespected you, your firm, my school, and all the alumni of Penn. I know that I do not even deserve a reply from you, but I hope that we can somehow move past this and develop a good relationship. Again, I very sincerely and deeply apologize.

Normally Bullblog would admire his repetent spirit, but this kind of self-flagellation borders on self-parody. Let this Quaker be a lesson to us all, and may you bear him in mind next time you hit “reply to all.”