Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation • Hacker News Board

Re: Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

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Post by mcv » Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 10:25 PM UTC

s73v3r wrote: post #327

mcv wrote: post #325

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I disagree. A job you love is a lot better than a job you hate. I agree $30k is ridiculously low, but if it pays enough to live the life you want, why should you get more if that would make you hate your life? There's no bigger blessing in life than to get paid for doing something you love. The most important thing though is that he's learning: that means he will still be able to get better opportunities later. Once…

A job you love quickly can turn into a job you hate if you're scraping by. Further, I seriously question that a different job would be one that they hate.

You can always leave once you start hating your job. Why leave now just because there's a chance you might hate it in the future?

Re: Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

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Post by dheera » Tue, Oct 20, 2015, 1:20 PM UTC

kps wrote: post #211

dheera wrote: post #115

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My voicemail recording is just several minutes of classical music with the occasional "All of our representatives are currently busy at this time. Please stay on the line and we'll be with you shortly." at regular intervals.

I'm fond of the Intercept tone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IC_SIT.ogg

That's a nice idea too, but in reality it creates trouble (I tried it once). For example, my bank's fraud department often likes calling me several times a day asking me to "verify" transactions. I told them several times to NEVER call me, and that I will monitor my transactions via the online interface and call in the event of suspected fraud. However, they continued calling me, often at the most inconvenient times. Like when I have a bag slung across my shoulder, a grocery bag in one hand, a hot drink in the other, and standing on crowded public transit, they expect me to answer my phone, spill my drink, fall over on a moving train, and yell my social security number in front of everyone on the train? To top that, don't they realize that I need to login to my AWS account and check my instance usage before I can "verify" any transactions? Sorry bank, just DO NOT CALL. Ever. Period. E-mail me. This is the 21st century.

So back when I had one of those error message tones, they once decided that my contact information was "out of date" and just disabled my credit card while I was eating lunch, leaving me stranded at a restaurant like a fool, ATM and credit cards all disabled, without any way to pay. (Like seriously, are you trying to stop fraud, or stop your own customers?)

With the hold message this doesn't happen. :)

Re: Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

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Post by itl12 » Thu, Oct 22, 2015, 11:17 PM UTC

RogerL wrote: post #14

One fairly recently cold emailed me 4 times in one day, the last email quite put out and angry that I hadn't responded yet; this was followed by numerous cajoling to censorious emails in the following days, and then a letter mailed to my home castigating me for not responding. And then more emails. He finally went away. Then there is the current one - scheduling an interview without my say so, I demanded she cancel i…

Sorry to hear about your dog. Hope he/she gets better.

Re: Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

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Post by ryguytilidie » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 2:24 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #314

ryguytilidie wrote: post #305

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I'm confused. Writing a long, mean spirited rant about millions of faceless strangers is totally okay, but saying "I know lots of these strangers and I think the opposite is true" in the comments section is off topic? Soooo are we at a spot where its 100% ok to rip millions of strangers, but the second someone disagrees a mod gets upset and starts editing the discussion? This is bizarre.

> the second someone disagrees a mod gets upset That's quite the understatement. You posted close to two dozen indignant comments in a single thread, crossing repeatedly into incivility. That's an abuse of HN by any standard, regardless of how flawed the article and the other comments were.

So, to be clear, since you never had a single problem with ANYONE shitting on an entire profession. "Crossing repeatedly into incivility" is something youre offended by only when its not being done toward an engineer. Just trying to figure out the logic behind being okay with the literal hundreds of negative comments about an entire profession in this thread but being super duper upset for me being not that polite in response. Is there logic here or was this just a bit of a tantrum on your part? Perhaps we should have some disclaimer like "feel free to shit on other professions, but if you DARE respond to those posts, fuck you."?

Re: Don’t Feed the Beast – The Great Tech Recruiter Infestation

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Post by ryguytilidie » Tue, Oct 27, 2015, 2:26 AM UTC

dang wrote: post #292

ryguytilidie wrote: post #248

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So let me see if I follow. It is completely rational and even considered informational to post some strawmen about 2 or 3 recruiters. HOWEVER, knowing hundreds of recruiters and talking about their actual behavior is not rational. "You think knowing a couple hundred means you know how they all act, or even a majority?" I...what? Are we just coming up with the dumbest, most obtuse questions possible? Again, what shred…

Please stop.

I get that you're a mod but jesus christ this is rock bottom embarrassing. A user was a completely obtuse shit head toward me and because I kind of mocked them in response, your response is to tell me to shut up? Perhaps its time for a new job?