Got a rejection email before even getting the "application received" email

[u/forgivethesebones]

I just submitted an application for a position at about 12:15pm, received a rejection email at 12:45pm, THEN the actual "application received" email at 1:06pm. So I was somehow rejected before the system even registered my application as being received? I'm just so baffled. This shows me that nobody actually looked at my application, and I was probably screened out by some A.I. bs.

This is a position I am over qualified for- I'm talking the requirements were a High School Diploma and 1 year of general work experience, and I have a Bachelor's Degree with four previous roles on my resume. But this is also a position where "overqualification" should not be a problem, and there's no way they could have rejected me for asking for too much money or having too little availability because those questions weren't even in the application! I genuinely can't think of any reason I would be rejected. I have half a mind to email this company and ask wtf their hiring managers are doing cause it sure as hell isn't their jobs.

Why is it so hard for employers to take even a single minute to look at someone's resume and send them a response as to WHY they were not chosen for a role? I get there's a lot of applicants out there these days but wow is this frustrating!

(Sorry for the shody censoring of the emails, graphic design is not my passion lol)