Call it the revenge of the rejected. A group of students in Germany, fed up with the mountains of form letters they've received from companies informing them they've been turned down for a job, has created a Web site that gives companies a little of their own medicine.

The Rejection Agency is a site that looks very much like Germany's national Job Center sites, but instead of offering tips on finding a job or listings of jobs on offer, it provides visitors with form letters for job seekers to turn down jobs they see offered -- very politely, of course.

One example that a job rejecter can print out reads:

Dear Sir or Madam:

Thank you for the announcement regarding the above-mentioned position. After careful consideration of the offer, I regret to inform you that I will not be able to accept the position.

I assure you that my decision does not reflect negatively on either you or your company, but simply does not meet my needs at the present time.

Sincerely,

xxxx

Those wishing to tell companies "no thank you" can either print out the form letter and send it off, or can ask the Rejection Agency to do it for them. The agency says it wants the project to highlight deficiencies in the German labor market and the growing number of outrageous job classifieds, in which employers feel they can require anything they want from an increasingly desperate pool of job seekers.

In short, the group behind the project wants to throw a little attitude back in employers' faces.

The agency is being supported by donations and the sale of t-shirts. On the front of the shirts is a picture of a typewriter and the words, "I turned it down."