[kodah]

> Here, we're presented with a behavior by recruiters that is very rude, and on top of that, incredibly easy to solve

I was responding to someone suggesting naming and shaming individuals.

> Blameless post-mortems are a poor comparison. You're talking about the failure of a system that is contributed to and designed by a group of people who are continuously working together

Get to know some recruiters. There's one that replied on here. They too work within a system designed by someone external to them that has constraints, quotas, and asymmetrical input/output.

> Your solution is not useful at all for internal recruiters - you just don't develop relationships with them, because the nature of their job is a one shot thing with each candidate

I have relationships with both. All it means is I stay top of mind and when they hit me up it's for relevant jobs.

[awillen]

My comments were about naming and shaming individuals. Ghosting is a behavior of individuals that is very rude of those individuals and very easy to solve by those individuals (all it takes is <30 seconds to send an email).

I know plenty of recruiters. The fact that they work within a system isn't relevant. Ghosting is not a complex issue that requires a post-mortem. It's not sending a single, short email. Quotas, constraints, and everything else that you've mentioned are totally irrelevant.

[kodah]

That's crazy. This behavior will ultimately end up propagating harassment and abuse. It seems like as long as people feel righteous they think that's okay. To me, it's answering a problem with an obvious problem.

[awillen]

No, it's crazy to say that a very specific behavior in response to a very particular situation will just end up harassment and abuse. If that logic were true, then the fact that sites like Yelp exist would've led to us burning the world down.

Creating public, negative consequences for people isn't inherently bad. Some kinds of it are, but it's not reasonable to say that in any form it will lead to abuse.

[kodah]

This concept you've described is literally a Black Mirror episode. Those are not intended to be encouraging.