Posted by arizen 4/9/2025
I didn't see any "AI" candidates, but I was suspicious about a few / if they were in fact who they said they were.
The part I worry about is that maybe I was just too suspicious and some poor guy was playing it straight and I gave a thumbs down due to my suspicions.
Except the "them" who've been wasting applicants' time for decades is not the same as the "them" who are facing the flood of fake job seekers.
It's generally preferable that "justice" treats innocent parties and guilty parties quite differently.
I'm very experienced, live in the US and a friendly chap who interviews well, but because of everyone is using AI (applicants, recruiters, employers), it's next to impossible to get a reply to any posting or get trough to a 'human'.
The empire strikes back. Until now, the job market, was flooded with false vacancies.
Oh, they're nothing fancy, just perfect-bound with card covers and spines hand-lettered in silver paint on black bookbinder's tape. But they're workmanlike and sturdy and sound in the hand, and maybe it'll be worth someone's value to own words that not only have obviously been labored over at length, but that never change even when no one is looking at them.
Why not, I suppose. Printed words are already becoming a luxury, with the decline in material and workmanship in modern hardbound "prestige" editions reflecting their place among the economy of aspirational, status- and status-anxiety-signaling goods. Obviously I would have no market among these dreary neoliberal bourgeoisie, but I'm sure there are a few perverts on websites like this one who'd pay more for the produce of hours in an attic over hand tools and muttered swears, for something that even if it's just a trade paperback still feels and reads the way a book should.