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This past summer, I purchased a domain and email to use for my job contacts. The email address allows for a number of aliases, so I set up several for different job boards and other contacts, including a few trusted ones that get their own alias.

Today, I get an email from a joker I'd dealt with before. They were well known for telling you almost-but-not-quite lies, and in some cases, direct lies. I'd had a contact with them in the past for a job, they lied to me about the pay, lied to me about the contract terms, and pretty much played dumb when called on it. They also lied to a friend by telling him the company they submitted to liked his resume and they wanted to schedule an interview.

Found that one out when I had a direct interview there the same week. I was asked if anyone else at my company was looking, how did I know? Pointed to my friend's resume on the top of the stack, HR guy looks at it and kind of stares off into space with "I'm not taking recruiters for positions right now." HR guy was a wingman, he even called and apologized to me when I didn't get the job and gave me a lot of internal information about why.

Anyway, I was offered a position through lying recruiter once, but the lies were too much.

Today's email was to an alias for a particualar job board. This alias can't send email, just receive. There's no phone number attached to the resume because of Indians and other spammers. Joker recruiter starts off with:

"I recently tried contacting you via phone and noticed that your number has changed. You had submitted your resume to us in the past, and we have a current opportunity I would like to discuss with you."

The last time this happened was when the job market was tight after the telco crash had faded and the economy was humming from the oncoming housing doom. Things must be tight again, this type of first contact has by no means been uncommon.

However, they used to say "we tried calling you at the number on your resume," which even then I snagged them on as cellphones recorded all incoming calling numbers. Now, it's just "your number has changed..." The fact that it came to an address on a domain that literally didn't exist in June made it all the more fun.

I've never submitted with this company using this email, and my previous email predates contacts with them as well - as does the phone number, they were all from 2007. That email service doesn't exist anymore. So I asked what the job was - as expected, it was the same one they'd lied to me about back in 2005 (company in question fire-hires all the time) and I said thanks but no thanks. Asked what phone number they called, I've never used this email address with them.

No reply, of course.

Morons.

This past summer, I purchased a domain and email to use for my job contacts. The email address allows for a number of aliases, so I set up several for different job boards and other contacts, including a few trusted ones that get their own alias. Today, I get an email from a joker I'd dealt with before. They were well known for telling you almost-but-not-quite lies, and in some cases, direct lies. I'd had a contact with them in the past for a job, they lied to me about the pay, lied to me about the contract terms, and pretty much played dumb when called on it. They also lied to a friend by telling him the company they submitted to liked his resume and they wanted to schedule an interview. Found that one out when I had a direct interview there the same week. I was asked if anyone else at my company was looking, how did I know? Pointed to my friend's resume on the top of the stack, HR guy looks at it and kind of stares off into space with "I'm not taking recruiters for positions right now." HR guy was a wingman, he even called and apologized to me when I didn't get the job and gave me a lot of internal information about why. Anyway, I was offered a position through lying recruiter once, but the lies were too much. Today's email was to an alias for a particualar job board. This alias can't send email, just receive. There's no phone number attached to the resume because of Indians and other spammers. Joker recruiter starts off with: "I recently tried contacting you via phone and noticed that your number has changed. You had submitted your resume to us in the past, and we have a current opportunity I would like to discuss with you." The last time this happened was when the job market was tight after the telco crash had faded and the economy was humming from the oncoming housing doom. Things must be tight again, this type of first contact has by no means been uncommon. However, they used to say "we tried calling you at the number on your resume," which even then I snagged them on as cellphones recorded all incoming calling numbers. Now, it's just "your number has changed..." The fact that it came to an address on a domain that literally didn't exist in June made it all the more fun. I've never submitted with this company using this email, and my previous email predates contacts with them as well - as does the phone number, they were all from 2007. That email service doesn't exist anymore. So I asked what the job was - as expected, it was the same one they'd lied to me about back in 2005 (company in question fire-hires all the time) and I said thanks but no thanks. Asked what phone number they called, I've never used this email address with them. No reply, of course. Morons.

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[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

People who are too sleazy for politics or used car sales become recruiters. They are compulsive liars who will do or say anything to get you to take their jobs while doing the same to the company because they take huge cuts off the top of your hourly. I've had recruiters call my house when I was at work trying to get me into trouble with my wife by telling her I refused to take a $70 an hour contract though I was making more at the job I was at. I still get calls and emails from recruiters regularly in spite of retiring a while ago and they simply won't take no for an answer. The indians are the worst and I simply fuck with them seeing how fast I can trigger them. Network with other contractors then deal with the hiring managers directly, that's how I did it.

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That's pretty much how I've landed jobs, either a professional connection or, in one case, the school I attended's newsletters. I keep the email service around because I do have profiles posted with the usual suspects, it allows me to keep tabs on certain things I find of interest.

Indians are the worst, they have no idea what they're doing and just match words. I no longer put a phone number on my contact information, if they want it they can email me and we'll discuss exactly why they think they need it.

[–] [deleted] • 1 pt

That's the best way to deal with it now. Once Obama wrecked the economy and Tata took over the contract market it's been 99% curry recruiters. I hate curry.

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All of the fiber that was laid right before the telco crash being lit didn't help either. All of a sudden overseas calls were no more expensive than any other data packet on the Internet.