Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by matchbok3 3 days ago
Again, what is the benefit exactly? Avoiding hurt feelings? Are people's skins that thin?

You cannot enforce this one way and not the other. Interviewing and hiring and managing a company takes a lot of time. What if a candidate "ghosts" me? Can I sue him for hurting my feelings?

I seriously have to think this is a parody or joke. Nobody with a real job can think this way haha.

1 comments

> Again, what is the benefit exactly? Avoiding hurt feelings? Are people's skins that thin?

Knowing what you did wrong.

Wouldn't a reason for rejection potentially increase hurt feelings, and that's why there's so much ghosting? I don't understand this objection, I thought I was the one annoyed at thin skins in the interview scenario.

> What if a candidate "ghosts" me? Can I sue him for hurting my feelings?

The reason you think this is a parody or joke is because you keep jumping to ridiculous scenarios that have nothing to do with the actual request. The actual request is to spend one or two minutes on an email, which is barely anything compared to the entire interview you already did with them.

If this rule applied, they would just have to say why they ghosted you. That's it.