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Would this be as laugh-riot funny if somebody posted a fake job offering just to watch people squirm?

• pavel_lishin 14y ago
  That's not a valid comparison. As I understand it, the Pete London persona didn't advertise himself as looking for work - recruiters effectively started spamming him. If someone created an entire fake company, and then laughed at engineers who tried to contact them to find out if they were hiring or not, that would probably not be very funny.
• mdanger 14y ago
  Already been done, actually: http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/get-a-job-the-craigslist-experiment/ http://thoughtcatalog.com/2012/get-a-job-the-craigslist-expe...
• drakeandrews 14y ago
  A bunch of people I grew up with created a website for a fake, unpaid media internship. It got several hundred applicants, including three people who tracked down one of the peoples phone number and called him, demanding an interview.
• slurgfest 14y ago
  Happens all the time, e.g. with postings for positions that are really intended to be filled internally, or with perpetual postings which do nothing but solicit people to go into a resume pool when there is no specific job. It wouldn't be funny because it's not even surprising for job searchers to be jerked around, just normal
• Fundlab 14y ago
  I know a colleague who tried this not for the laughs but to compare and refine his resume
• chrisbennet 14y ago
  There is a book "The Ax" about a laid off paper engineer who posts a fake job ad in order to see who his competition is. Then he kills them in order to increase his chances of getting a job.