I effed up hard in life today, and feel like an idiot.

you fail

immature

I would contact him again, a letter will suffice, I would not do this in an email. Tell him honestly why you did what you did, admit to being wrong and sincerely apologize. Tell him you learned an important lesson and even if you never see him again it is something you'll never forget.My dad taught me that accepting an apology is often far harder than giving one.

I already replied to his email:

"Very clearly understood and point taken to heart. I didn't call because I’ve been on the fence about which job to take and decided this morning to go with the other one I've been considering. I assumed that hearing from me was a trivial matter to you. I should have given you a courtesy call and I deeply apologize for the indecision and lack of professionalism. I will learn from this."

Try to salvage something from this.

Reply back apologizing and admitting that it was rude and unprofessional not to cancel. Say something like, "I appreciate your candid feedback, that you now realize that you owed the company that gave you an interview more courtesy....... and you won't make that mistake again."

(He'll feel good that he taught you something)

You did good. Now forget it.

Assuming you are not a troll, sounds like you dodged a bullet with Company B. Missing a phone call? For all they know you had a family emergency, or some valid reason. I think they just went with someone else as they thought you were difficult in making up your mind. A lot of places if you don't come across enthused up front figure you never will be so don't hire.

Just write them back and say " thank you for your consideration and extending me the offer of employment which I had hoped to discuss with you. I am sorry that we did not connect for the phone call. As you have withdrawn the offer, rather than address any reason for not connecting, I will simply wish you the best in the future."

that is the way to go, you acknowledge them, save your reputation and move on. Just do not respond to any entreaty by them to follow up. Just say you took another job when they withdrew their offer.

Good luck. And at the next job spend less time trolling.

Life goes on.

Perfect opportunity to teach tha CEO / whatever that he has anger and control issues and needs to learn to chill out and effing leave the door open to accept an apology.

I would write him "I'm so sorry I did not call you, I was in a haze all day as I'd just learned that one of my best college friends had died in a car accident the night before. You point about professionalism is still noted. Thank you for teaching me this valuable lesson."

You'll still get your lesson, and he'll be expanded with a lesson too.

-- Wayne Dyer

Excellent. Put it to rest and move ahead.

Captain Unprofessional wrote:

I already replied to his email:

"Very clearly understood and point taken to heart. I didn't call because I’ve been on the fence about which job to take and decided this morning to go with the other one I've been considering. I assumed that hearing from me was a trivial matter to you. I should have given you a courtesy call and I deeply apologize for the indecision and lack of professionalism. I will learn from this."

Captain Unprofessional wrote:

This afternoon he shoots me an email saying "You leave a very unfavorable impression by standing up the owner of a company. A professional courtesy would have been a simple phone call to cancel. Don’t bother contacting me again as we don’t have any interest in people that don’t honor their commitments."

Like the other guy said, you dodged a bullet. As a business owner myself, sending an email such as the above is unheard of and unprofessional. You may have made a slight breach of business etiquette - it's always best to avoid burning bridges in business - but the above email is straight from a reality television show. Imagine that guy as your boss. I expect he conducts his other business dealings with similar grace and tact, and probably has a reputation among his peers.

Captain Unprofessional wrote:

I am just writing all this out to admit that what I did was wrong and concretize the less in my mind.

Sentence of the day.

I'm surprised Ronald McDonald even agreed to giving you 10 minutes out of his day.

Most people never admit their mistakes. I salute you. If you never apologized, then you would make for a typical politician in the Hillary mode.

Good thing you didn't decide to go with company B. You do not want to work for this guy.

BTW, you didn't effed up. Businesses set up meetings and never attend all the time.

A day in the life of a millennial....

What kind of company owner would actually get mad and text that back lol? In calling you out for being unprofessional he established that he him self is equally, if not more, unprofessional. You should contact him and tell him you guys are perfect for each other

If you learn nothing else from this, learn that scheduling time to talk means something to the other person; it is never a trivial thing. Anyone, CEO, reporter, informational interview subject, is setting aside time out of their day to talk, putting off other things, waiting for the phone to ring. It is irritating as hell to wait for a call that never comes. Even in an emergency you can shoot a text or email to the person so they know not to st there waiting. I've had it happen to me and you can't help but think the other person is just a huge flake. Yeah, the company owner was a dick to come at you with that kind of self-righteousness, but I understand his irritation.

really unbelievable replies from you millennials who are still on mommy's titty.

LOL @ "The CEO learned a lesson "WTF" GET the F outta here.

The guy effed up and should have wrote a letter in snail mail.

His e-mail reply was immature as well.

you kids are screwed and so is our future!

that's why I don't hire douchebags like you guys.

give me some 40 year old from Europe any day.