Seattle Foundation interview questions

I had a routine phone screening interview with an HR person. About a week later, I got an email from an assistant to set up another time with the HR person. I anticipated that the call was to discuss next steps or seek clarification about salary. I was wrong. The Seattle Foundation decided it was best practice to set up a second phone meeting in order to reject. So I had several days of being hopeful about another interview only to have a 30 second phone conversation with an HR person to reject me. This was an incredibly disrespectful way to treat applicants and waste everyone’s time. Why not just send an email saying “thanks but we are going with other applicants”?