Nice, website now 404ing and blog is private. http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:JqLMFQ-... :)
Huh. I'm curious why. The splash page still loads, but none of his links (contact, about, jobs...) work. All 404
Tech recruitment: how not to do it
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Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#32Beau has been around a long time. I remember him posting jobs to the jobs.perl.org site and perl jobs list years ago (back in 2001). We had to ban him for similarly bad behavior. I'm amazed he's still around.
hum, just last week he was trying to create a page on job4dev to post "listings" with no information whatsoever about any of the actual companies that were hiring. Usually our moderation system is enough to stop recruiters to add vacuous pages to the wiki. But he went ahead and start spamming the comment pages anyway. Sometimes I wonder if it would be possible to add to job4dev a service that would turn recruiters in…
Did you ever consider the possibility that "Beau" is not actually a recruiter, but rather a mid-level troll with a creative cover story?
Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#33Just because sexual orientation is not a "protected class" on a federal level, employment laws in nearly every state are very clear that in addition to the protected classes, you can not discriminate arbitrarily.
But it doesn't matter, in New York (SONDA) and just about every blue state has very clear anti-discrimination laws when it comes to sexual orientation.
And of course, regardless of the laws, nobody would allow this person to represent them or work for them.
This guy needs to be terminated immediately, his behavior is totally disgusting and reprehensible.
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#34There's a great way to beat them. Apply for the job. If you don't get it, sue them saying they didn't hire you because of your sexuality. Use this email from the recuiter to show that they are clearly not an equal opertunities employer. Hopefully the recruiter will now no longer be employed (by anyone). Or alternatively go into the job interview, and make lots of homophobic/sexist/racist jokes there (e.g. "Good to se…
Actually in the US it is not illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There may be laws in New York state prohibiting it, I don't know. But in most of the US it is totally legal to post a job listing saying "Programmers wanted. No fags allowed." It is pretty despicable.
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Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#35Yeah, not all that surprising. He frequently adds posts to the NYPHP email list as well, and they just come off as.. less than legit. Even still, this is rather poor form.
Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#36There's a great way to beat them. Apply for the job. If you don't get it, sue them saying they didn't hire you because of your sexuality. Use this email from the recuiter to show that they are clearly not an equal opertunities employer. Hopefully the recruiter will now no longer be employed (by anyone). Or alternatively go into the job interview, and make lots of homophobic/sexist/racist jokes there (e.g. "Good to se…
Actually in the US it is not illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There may be laws in New York state prohibiting it, I don't know. But in most of the US it is totally legal to post a job listing saying "Programmers wanted. No fags allowed." It is pretty despicable.
There is, and ought to be, a difference between 'wrong' and 'illegal.'
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#37https://twitter.com/ossjobs what a jerk
Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#38There's a great way to beat them. Apply for the job. If you don't get it, sue them saying they didn't hire you because of your sexuality. Use this email from the recuiter to show that they are clearly not an equal opertunities employer. Hopefully the recruiter will now no longer be employed (by anyone). Or alternatively go into the job interview, and make lots of homophobic/sexist/racist jokes there (e.g. "Good to se…
Actually in the US it is not illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There may be laws in New York state prohibiting it, I don't know. But in most of the US it is totally legal to post a job listing saying "Programmers wanted. No fags allowed." It is pretty despicable.
Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#39There's a great way to beat them. Apply for the job. If you don't get it, sue them saying they didn't hire you because of your sexuality. Use this email from the recuiter to show that they are clearly not an equal opertunities employer. Hopefully the recruiter will now no longer be employed (by anyone). Or alternatively go into the job interview, and make lots of homophobic/sexist/racist jokes there (e.g. "Good to se…
Actually in the US it is not illegal to discriminate based on sexual orientation. There may be laws in New York state prohibiting it, I don't know. But in most of the US it is totally legal to post a job listing saying "Programmers wanted. No fags allowed." It is pretty despicable.
The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has interpreted the prohibition of discrimination based on conduct to include discrimination based on sexual orientation.
http://www.opm.gov/er/address2/guide01.asp
Currently the Employment Non-discrimination Act of 2009, which would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, is being considered. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) has been introduced in Congress to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Neither of these acts has been passed, yet - there is still no federal protection against sexual orientation discrimination in the workplace.
Almost half of the U.S. states, including the District of Columbia, have active laws that prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in both private and public workplaces. These states include
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin
Additionally, a few states prohibit sexual orientation discrimination in only public workplaces, such as for state employees: Delaware, Indiana, Michigan, Montana, and Pennsylvania.
Re: Tech recruitment: how not to do it
#40Sketchy in a lot of ways. His LinkedIn profile has stars around the name http://www.linkedin.com/in/opensourcestaffing He also has every state in the nation listed twice (postal code + full state name). SEO bait I guess. It seems surprising to me that some of the fairly big companies listed on their website (eBay, Disney Internet Group, Rapleaf, Shopzilla) would engage with someone so visibly awful. http://open-sourc…
I also love how , as a recruiter, he is also apart of every Developer association out there.