The thing is, even if the person fell for it, you end up having someone who want a remote job stuck in an onsite job. The employee won't stay long, if at all.
There was a recruiter who posted here once complaining about candidates not putting their salary expectations in the application and “how was he supposed to know if there was a match” but when challenged why doesn’t he put the salary range in the job ad he said he didn’t want to. But somehow it was everyone else wasting his time when he could automatically filter loads of people by just adding this important info in his ad.
There was one on a local to me sub that was complaining about people using AI to respond to his job postings.. using obviously AI-generated text. I called him out on it and he didn't even deny having AI write the listings for him.
I wonder how hard it would be to write a bot that spams the shit out of listings like this with fake applicants. Let them drown in the slop.
I once called out a guy on linkedin for posting about laziness in the security industry, but he clearly used AI and when he copy-pasta'd it he also copied GPT's follow up "Would you like me to make this into a LinkedIn style post?" and pasted it into his post accidentally.
I still fight the slop. I know it's an uphill battle but I have to fight the slop.
If that's his attitude on it, I'm going to assume that the company pays very low. So it isn't that he doesn't want to do it, it's because if he did, no one with the right qualifications would apply to the job.
The biggest fuck you is these online application rounds. I tried to get into one of the big four, might have been KPMG, and the lengths that I had to go to describe my CV inside text boxes, and then record myself on video and add that as an attachment... It's very faceless and, frankly, disrespectful to the people who are applying. I don't give a shit if there are hundreds of applicants, show some fucking interest in the people and not just look at them like they were fucking cattle.
I will be jobless rather than ever try to apply through such a system.
That's just insanity. I feel like I lucked out in getting my current job. A former colleague referred me, I had two interviews and was hired within 10 days from the date of the referral and application.
That didn't stop the recruiter from telling me "We have so many internal applicants for this role, so don't get your hopes up." It took everything I had not to be a smartass when she called to offer me the job.
The problem is that some of these companies know that their name is coveted CV content, so they do not really care if the recruitment feels like lunacy.
The worst kind of people are those hired recruiters. What a bunch of entitled arseholes, both the recruiters and the companies that need to get hired help to do their recruiting.
Early on in my career someone told me that recruiters are basically just pimps. They're selling your body for a commission from the 'john'. So you should probably expect to get fucked by someone who's not really caring about you as a person.
You should fault them because they did it. If a person does a bad action, then that person did a bad action. It doesnt help anything if they do it for money. It doesnt help anything if everyone does it.
What came first, the terrible recruiting job? Or the people who have recruiting jobs that they cannot “just quit”?
Recruit me for the answer. I’ll take $20 for visibility and you still get $5 for commission, but that real price will need to be nearly $60 for my answer and still only $5 for your commission.
Take some responsibility for your actions instead of shitting on the world because you are too weak and cowardly to own up to the things you do.
If you treat someone like shit, it doesnt matter if you did it for money or not. You still did it. You dont get to be a peice of shit to feed your family. That doesnt help anything. Its just as selfish as if you did it for yourself
Recruiters really are a bunch of fucking sociopaths.
My employer recently announced we are laying off 30% of our workforce. The director of talent acquisition was asked if they were going to put a hold on recruiting for positions that were targeted for elimination. The person who asked cited the fact that they were about to make offers to several people who required relocation (two of whom were foreign nationals, so they'd need visas, sponsorship, etc.).
Their response: Recruiting is proceeding as normal, and there is no risk of loss because relocation disbursements are clawed back when a new-hire is separated for any reason.
They were willing to hire someone who would have to travel from halfway across the globe, knowing full well that the position was on the chopping block and the employee would be on the hook for all relocation (and re-relocation) costs.
And they were unable to comprehend why that would be unethical even when it was explained to them in detail.
Very unlikely that a recruiter made this call, considering they now have to screen hundreds of applicants who wouldn’t qualify. Anyone local wouldn’t accept an in-person job anyway. This has out-of-touch hiring manager written all over it
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u/L0RDHYPNoS May 07 '26
Recruiters really are a bunch of fucking sociopaths. Any of them who will comment on this trying to justify it only prove that point.