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Writing "wear a red tie" in 1pt email signatures is not just accidentally wasting time, or wasting time for procrastination/entertainment purposes. That's delib
by rndgermandude 5y ago
Writing "wear a red tie" in 1pt email signatures is not just accidentally wasting time, or wasting time for procrastination/entertainment purposes. That's deliberate and he has to know he is playing with people's (professional) lives.
Good for him if he somehow does this to protect the team, but he is abusing candidates at the same time, so fuck that.
When I waste my time on hacker news, I know what I am doing, and hacker news is not trying to trick me, and hacker news does pretend to offer me money or a job.
An interview however suggest there is an opportunity for gainful employment, and if there really isn't and you sink time into that regardless, then that's a different beast.
- dahart 5y agoThe guy is absolutely definitely wasting time consciously and on purpose. Fully agree with you there. Figuring out how to fix that particular case still requires knowing the whole story. And yeah, when I interview, I know some of my time is going to be wasted, there’s no way around that, but it’s better to (1) research the job/company before interviewing, (2) use the interview as part of your research to filter out bad companies to work for like this one, (3) focus on the goal of finding a good employer, good salary, etc. One way to look at this is that the manager might be, in the big picture, saving time for the candidates. It might be much worse for them if they were to take the job, it might be years of time wasting as opposed to an hour.