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What is disrespectful? Their job? I think it only becomes disrespectful when they keep nagging after you have told them off or something. Otherwise, they are ju
by chirau 4y ago
What is disrespectful? Their job? I think it only becomes disrespectful when they keep nagging after you have told them off or something. Otherwise, they are just doing their job, seeking out good candidates. It's not like all of them are conniving to swamp you, they act individually and what you eventually hate is the sum of those individual parts.
- jb1991 4y agoIt is disrespectful if they are webscraping email addresses and cold-emailing people who never signed up for their recruitment "service".
- azemetre 4y agoIt's disrespectful because I never consented to giving their company my email, nor have I consented to their services. This type of reasoning is why a vast majority of people never answer their phone, because there is a very large chance it'll be a phone call from a spammer/scammer. I have no issues when I purposely choose to work with a recruiter, but invading aspects of my life when they never got permission to IS disrespectful.
- dcow 4y agoIf you publicly listed your email on open source projects then you agreed to be contacted at that address regarding your work. That's the only inconsistency I see here. I hate recruiter spam just as much as you, but you can't both list an email publicly and also require consent to use said email. That's not how a phone book works.
- azemetre 4y agoMan I’m not disagreeing. I just wish there was a term for tragedy of the digital commons. You see similar things from other fun aspects of the web that disappeared, like guests book or comments on blogs.
- function_seven 4y agoThey're no different from any other spammer who trawls through repos and forums scooping up email addresses. Whether it's dick pills or job opportunities, it's spam.
- kayodelycaon 4y agoExcept they aren't seeking out good candidates. The vast majority are spamming every email they can scrape, buy, or steal.
- scarmig 4y agoSomeone can have a job that's inherently disrespectful. See e.g. generic phone spam callers. I'm sure the live humans there are struggling to feed their families and get by, so I don't really hold it against them. But I don't feel any qualms about blocking them and complaining about the lame companies that generate revenue by employing them.