| If I genuinely want a specific job, I'll just reroute my process through someone else. Recruiters that ghost are my competitive advantage. I can beat that barrier where others can't. Waste your time on this if you want. It won't get you closer to your objectives. When I was younger, a recruiter for interns at Nvidia ghosted me entirely. It left a bad taste in my mouth because the internship time was particularly stressful for me since I procrastinated till very late. In comparison, the Microsoft recruiter just told me that while they'd take me, they'd filled their capacity. Whether they were truthful or were letting me down nicely, I appreciated the response. But that was then. I was upset at all of Nvidia back then. But at some point, the perspective shifted. Now if there's something to get, I go take it. If the recruiter ghosts me, I LinkedIn their recruiting team, Rocketreach or PeopleDataLabs myself their emails, and use an automailer to drip them with where I'm stuck in the process. The way I see it is that punishing people is work I'd have to do to make a company more effective at something. I want a reward for that. No one will reward me for that. What they will reward me for is shotgunning everyone else. And is anyone seriously going to GDPR or CCPA me? If they tried, I'd shit on their faces on Twitter and even if they revealed the so-called underhandedness of my tactics people will remember them as the guys who ghosted someone and then sued that guy when he tried to unghost them. Hyperoptimize for your own objectives. Everyone else's problem is their problem. |
lol in some of the realms I have worked in...I've done as you suggest. Been blocked by immediate superior...gone to foreman to find out what to do (aka i'd run out of jobs and my superior was too busy to give me a new one). I got fired that day on the spot for approaching my team leaders boss...4 days on the job lol.