@wendynather

"i'm very impressed by your resume -- i have an opportunity that i think you'll be very interested in. it's a 3 month contract with no guarantee of followon employment, pays 1/3 your current rate, and requires you to be in office in small rural town in the swamps of Louisiana. i've contacted you several times with no response but i'm sure we can come to an agreement."

@wendynather

my favorite linkedin story...

in my decades long career, i've had one single "management" job. sr director. only 6 months at that company/job. everything else was SME/individual contributor for my entire career.

i got contacted by an executive headhunter for a VP of engineering job. i was already morbidly curious about what kind of supposedly executive headhunter could think i was a VP candidate, so took the call.

it was a startup company, first round of funding, yet had no VP of eng yet.

so, i ask innocently, what's the company's plan/product?

recruiter: "oh, we're building an AI based linkedin scraper to automate looking for suitable candidates."

i pause for a moment to try to figure out the least tactless response i could.

me: "huh... interesting. and did you use this product to find my resume?"

recruiter: "exactly!"

me: "i'd suggest you find and hire a qualified VP of engineering and some engineering staff and give them 6 months of coding work *before* you try using your own product to find any candidates. thanks for your time."