[Wlug] Discussion: Email list policy for recruiters

Jamie Guinan guinan at bluebutton.com
Tue Jun 19 12:02:17 EDT 2007


My $0.02...

I think the mailing list should be like the meetings - if someone at a 
meeting says "hey, $COMPANY has this opening doing Linux 
sysadmin/programming/etc.", great.  But if some random recruiter 
walks into the room without any introductions and starts blabbing 
about jobs and how great his company is, I imagine they'd be told 
where to go.

In any case (and to kick a dead horse from a few months ago), I think 
all job postings should be open to satire.  If you're a recruiter and 
you post something that looks like an obvious death march[1], be 
prepared to have the euphemistic recruiter-speak appropriatly analyzed 
and made fun of.  >:)

-Jamie

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_march_(software_development)


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