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Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

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Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

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Post by philipallstar »

lousclues wrote: post #110
dheera wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call. Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line

It seems like all paths with recruiters lead to the phone call. I really wish some of them had an email only option.

> I really wish some of them had an email only option.

But why? If they need to convince someone you're a good hire, they will want to talk to you.

Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

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Post by zamadatix »

dragonwriter wrote: post #145
zamadatix wrote: post #59

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No space em dash = a real person who has been bulldozed by LLMs using it with spaces.

> No space em dash = a real person who has been bulldozed by LLMs using it with spaces. Setting an em-dash used for parentheticals closed (with no space)—or sometimes with thin spaces—is the common American literary/academic style (Chicago Manual, APA, and MLA all prefer closed); setting it open—with full word spaces—is the common American practice in journalism (reflected in the AP style guide). Not using em-dash at…

And that's why it should be interpreted as a one way signal. I.e. lack of spaces is a great indication a human wrote it but spaces sround an em dash alone is not a particularly strong indication it was AI.

Even for Americans, there are several style guidelines/modern preferences (particularly around web content) which don't guarantee the lack of spaces around an em dash. Hence even American LLMs using spaces. Ecen my natural em dash usage always included spaces as an American.

Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

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Post by nickvec »

gedy wrote: post #23
Zak wrote: post #3

I got one of those too, from "Alya", which seems to be an LLM-based tool the creator describes as his daughter. Beyond the usual rudeness of spam, that's a little creepy.

You should call these folks/companies out by name, they aren't respecting you, your time, or situation.

I received the same Alya email. This vibe-coded site was linked. https://mydaughteralya.com/

Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

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Post by [deleted] »

Rendello wrote: post #100
noitpmeder wrote: post #66

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I've had to configure a few editors to stop turning my natural ' -- ' into endashes...

I hate any editor changing anything without permission (especially ones that insert the closing paren/bracket). I used to love Linux's compose keys, though, where I could just press ` --.` to get an en dash and ` ---` to get an em. Most of the compose combinations were guessable, like ` a'` for á, ` co` for ©. MacOS has a great keyboard locale switcher, but the lack of real compose keys limits things. Most characters…

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Re: Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel

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Post by WorldMaker »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #156
dheera wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reminds me of all the recruiters who reach out to me saying they're working on filling some engineer position but never say the company name, and when asked, they want to have a call. Stop wasting my time, STATE THE COMPANY UPFRONT AND AT THE TOP, preferably in the subject line

This is not in the recruiter's interest though, because you may just go past them and apply to the company directly, so they miss out on their revenue. I love picking apart a recruiter's emails, in a handful of cases I see the advert and I'm like "Oh yeah I used to work there". Go and React in a telecom company in NL near where I live? Yeah I set that up. No I don't want to go back, not unless they hire an actual tea…

My favorite was the game of trying to figure out if multiple recruiters were trying to forward me to the exact same job/hiring company and trying to get them to stop stepping on each other's toes and try to a pick a "winner" recruiter for that specific role.

It's a weird thing to miss, but this layoff cycle so far I haven't seen any recent recruiter emails at all, which seems strange on multiple levels.

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