i don’t usually respond to these kinds of emails, but this one made me so fucking mad that i blacked out and regained consciousness with this in my outbox
@davidcelis Good on you. What an insane and ridiculous business proposition.
He raised $10M for this? Obviously from stupid people with a lot of money. Because there is no way they are ever going to see any of that back.
Assuming he is telling the truth - it is entirely possible that everything in the into is just the usual lies and BS.
Completely ridiculous! As someone who previously worked in HR, it's pretty standard advice to candidates -- going back decades -- that any agency that expects the candidate to pay is a scam. This is advice that job seekers will receive regularly, and of course it may already be obvious to many of them.
This whole thing sounds like it's bots all the way down, and all the way up.
@davidcelis Did you get a response? :D
@cratermoon yeah, some bullshit about how “when companies pay, candidates become the product”… which, yeah? that’s how employment works. we sell our labor, a product, to an employer who has the budget to pay for labor. like, come on