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Employers can afford to waste time. It’s their business. There has always been an asymmetry between employment seekers and employment offerers. It’s rare that a
by milesvp 3y ago
Employers can afford to waste time. It’s their business. There has always been an asymmetry between employment seekers and employment offerers. It’s rare that a company will lose it’s lease when a job interview turns out to be a waste of time. But homelessness can be a real outcome for a seeker.
- gdulli 3y agoBill Gates can afford to be stolen from. But the legal system operates on principles, not vibes.
- milesvp 3y agoNo, the legal system operates from what we decide it to. More importantly one of it’s roles is to help alleviate assymmetries of power, any use that does the opposite, I would argue, is a form of corruption. Now, someday labor may have more power than capital, and on that day I will make arguments siding with capital in this context. Also it is a very bad faith argument to equate poor interviewing etiquette with theft of property.
- gdulli 3y ago> No, the legal system operates from what we decide it to. Okay, so let's not decide that hiring managers should go on trial to prove the reason they didn't interview anyone for a job is not felony fraud but because they got busy, priorities changed, the right candidates didn't apply, they lost the budget for the position, etc. Morality about the power imbalance aside, it's wholly impractical to consider it punishable. There are many benign reasons you might place a job ad and move on from it, just like you might get on a dating app and not respond to anyone. It sucks, but we the rejected can't be so fragile that we do anything but consider it a bummer and move on.