Lying recruiters

[unixronin]

$RECRUITER wrote, in email:

Recently on national job board you indicated your interest in jobs with the following skillset:

Java, J2EE, Linux, JBoss, and Tomcat

No I damned well did not, you lying sack of shit.  I have experience with precisely one of those, and it shouldn't be a hard guess which one.  (Hint:  It's orthogonal to the other four.)  Do you really think you're going to get my interest or get me to work through you when you start out by trying to feed me an obvious bald-faced lie?

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

I dunno. I know a 20 year old kid that has better people skills than some of our salescritters.... it all kinda depends. Or maybe we could start the company, hire a few of these slicksters and let them sell to the HR weenies while we go do the grunt work.

As for recruiters not getting paid as much as good engineers, tell that to poor alaric here. Or charlesks, or riverheart, or me... unless the headhunter is getting a ridiculously low salary, not enough to live on, they're getting paid more than we are. (Two of us have no income atall.)

And it'll improve the state of the industry.

[cymrullewes.livejournal.com]

You did it again, Glenn. Someone got Alaric as a username before he got here. :-) But yeah, sometimes it is hard to think of him in any other name than Alaric.