Genghis,
Apologies if my previous mail seems like a case of me throwing my doll out of the cot. It was not meant to come across like that. Like all of us in this industry, I have taken a lot of knockbacks and one from the RAes does not exactly come high on the list of important factors in my life. I know what I contribute to the industry and if that is not enough to warrant a regrade in the opinion of the RAeS, then so be it.
I just feel that they should not build a persons hopes up for regrade if the person concerned is not what they are looking for in the first place and definitely don't do it a second time so soon after the first rejection.
Identify likely candidates for regrade from the RAeS data base and send such letters to them only. That is of course if such letters should be sent in the first place.
As you say, the situation was, in your case excaserbated by a colleague of yours receiving such a letter soon after you were declined for re-grade.
Temps