Same pattern here. Some businesses in a poor location stubbornly try and try and try (i.e, anywhere east of Idaho, west of the east coast, and north of Texas). The really bad recruiters don’t check current addresses and look for an easy “local hire” who’s actually 1,000 or 3,000 miles away. “I haven’t lived there for 5 years…”
We’ve likely been contacted by the exact same fly-by-night firms. The big, brand-name contract/consulting staffers are usually minimally competent.
I’ve been barraged by those same head hunters for years. Sometimes I just sit and laugh at the offers. There was a time when I wanted to make that kind of money, but I passed the amounts in those offers many years ago and they have nothing for me now.
Downtown Detroit? Uh, I’m from Oklahoma originally and know my way around firearms. I wouldn’t do that with @torq by my side in full kit and a police escort.
Mark Gosdin
Yes, yes and yes. Generally Indian headhunters that are scouring the big job sites. And in my case are usually connected to an industry I left 10 years ago and for jobs that are in technical development that would have been two levels below my previous pay grade. OR, very high paying executive jobs posted by companies that either I wouldn’t work for or are in remotest lands of desolation or sasquatch, and are probably destined for family members of the owners, but which were posted so they can say they looked.
Continuing the “LinkedIn nonsense” theme …
First …
Several messages this week, on a common theme (naively I’d assume the same company and/or template) …
Them: “Would you like to earn a LOT of money?!?!!???!”
Me: No; I would like others to earn it, and then give it to me.
Second …
Unfeasibly attractive women, of commonly Eastern-European descent, in high-level (VP/SVP/C-suite) product/R&D positions of REAL companies … wanting to connect out of the blue …
Accept the invite (because “why not” when I’m sitting in a 1,250 person line) … it’s a 100% same-language/templated pitch on hiring dev TEAMS through them in either Poland or the Ukraine. Or it’s the same thing for South America.
If you actually look up the claimed positions in the cited companies, there is a different person ENTIRELY in that role.
Pretty sure there is AI behind the scenes here, as responding (even with "I’m retired/not interested) gets a coherent, contextually appropriate, response.
Clever.
Which doesn’t make it less annoying (accepting the invites was just a “boredom moment”; since disconnected) … just clever.
Fear Not the Honeypot. It’s a very, very, very old espionage strategy. It works.
Was clearly what it seemed to be.
I only “engaged” because a) what else was I going to do* standing in a 1,200+ person line?, b) my wife thought it was hilarious, c) it was obvious it was a scam or pitch on some level and d) I’m not hiring anyone, anywhere, anytime soon …
Well, other than spinning up two new start-ups. And not hiring for any of them (yet). Because I can do all the tech/business pieces myself. Legal is easily outsourced, and DALL-E* is neatly taking care of any graphic needs I have.
**Tried Bard/Image FX for the same thing … out of pure curiosity … so many “I can’t do xyz” responses it was ridiculous … and the few prompts that yielded a result were terrible.
Watching this AI bubble inflate and then begin to burst all in the space of a couple of years is entertaining. Was reading about software that alters images online so that any AI that tries to learn from them has it’s existing data store corrupted. It’s gone from DALL-E isn’t this neat to DEATH TO DALL-E in the space of a few months.
Mark Gosdin
We won’t need any AI images before long. The ultimate reduction of all knowledge was foretold to be 42. And so shall it be.
This one is 100% self-directed …
Bootstrapping three new start-ups in parallel …
I swear I wasn’t drinking.
But what was I thinking?
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WTB: 72 hour days.