A few years ago a recruiter called me up enthusiastically and earnestly said, <name of my co-founder af a company I sold> personally asked me to reach out to yo

A few years ago a recruiter called me up enthusiastically and earnestly said, <name of my co-founder af a company I sold> personally asked me to reach out to you immediately for an urgent lead devops position we have open?” I said, “oh wow, that’s great! Just hold on one second to put on my headphones”. I used that pause to bridge in my former co-founder and say “hey, I have Captain Recruiter in the phone here and he says you want to hire me. Why didn’t you tell me this on our hike yesterday?” My good friend and business partner fired him on that call. My friend, he is an excellent judge of character and trusted this guy a lot. “captain recruiter” had a great reputation in the SF tech scene, he was also a sociopathic liar. I have been contacted by about 5,000 recruiters in the past 25 years. 3 of them found me job. 2 of them I referred successful candidates to. The rest ranged from incompetent kids working from IT sweat shops in India, to millionaire sociopaths. One recruiter asked me out on a date on OkCupid just to pitch me for a job with Dropbox. Headhunters are scum. (Edited for typos)