Stupid recruiters.

Mon Nov 7 18:25:58 PST 2005

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Danny,

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it's a bad thing to  
burn bridges, and I probably should
have kicked myself before sending out the parent e-mail to this  
thread. On the other hand, The
recruiters I return calls to today are mostly the recruiters who I  
returned calls to 6 years ago. We work
in a very, very small industry. Everybody knows everybody. Fluff  
comes and goes, but the good people
tend to stick around.

Luckily, however, if I hurt my reputation with recruiters, I won't  
sweat it. I'm not likely to ever want to take
a full-time position again, I'm just not the kind of person to enjoy  
being in W2 servitude.

On Nov 3, 2005, at 2:18 PM, Danny Howard wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:45:46PM -0800, Paul M. Moriarty wrote:
>> I'd be very careful about pissing off recruiters for any reason,  
>> even if
>> they are idiots.  You never know when one of them might get hired  
>> direct
>> at a company you really want to work for.  Then you're, how shall  
>> I put
>> it, fucked.
>
> Would you really want to work for a company with obnoxious recruiters?
>
> Maybe.
>
> Maybe not.
>
> But it is generally better to avoid antagonizing people if you can  
> avoid
> it.  Today's troll may be tomorrows hiring manager, or even internal
> referral for an open req ...
>
> But if you're going to screw with someone, recruiters are probably the
> least threatening.
>
> -danny

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