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]

Yaknow, maybe it's just me, but when that kind of thing happens, I'm suspicious of an automated harvester and a poorly-written one at that.

Can you say, fully automated spam?

I tend to put a honey-pot entry in online resumes... a comment like "I never want to do IBM VM-CMS or COBOL"... and if they come at me for that, I killfile'em.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

That was exactly my point.