@Quenti @Gargron
and make very very high demands.

@WAHa_06x36 @Gargron And bring a hidden camera. It'll be great PR for Mastodon 😆

@Gargron Also you work with React so obviously you gotta be interested in what they do, right?

Should I reply with "try me with a company that didn't assist the trump campaign", or would that be unnecessarily rude?

@Gargron omfg yes

My polite reply would be to simply say that I'm working on a facebook competitor and not interested

@Gargron Do that ;)

@Gargron When the polite reply burns more than the rude one X).

@Gargron "Sorry, I actually care about privacy"

Yo I went with that one, thanks everyone for feedback 👍

@Gargron You are way too gracious. My answer woulda probably been "get fucked lol 💩💩💩"

@pettter social networks compete with each other.

@pettter Decentralized social networks compete with all centralized social networks!

@Gargron Always resist the dark side of the force with a polite reply.

@Gargron it’s ok I think

@Gargron Go for it. Making fb think that they can't get candidates as a result of their inactions is a level of pressure that most folks can't bring to bear against them.

@Gargron

Oh, cmon! Facebook did a lot worse than just "assisting the trump campaign" (spying, mass surveilance, tracking, political censorship) ...

@Gargron You are not sticking it up to Facebook, just one random employee doing their job. If you have to...

@pony Yeah that's my thoughts too! That person might switch jobs later and I might come across them again. No reason to burn bridges preemptively. The tech world is small.

@pony @Gargron
'no reason to burn bridges'....?
That irritates me. facebook is proofen evil. It's a bit like, 'hi be nice to nazi's maybe you met them again'

@paulfree14 @Gargron Few times I refused to do an interview in a company that has links to gambling. I just told them, sorry, no, not coming for that, I'm not ok with your business. Noted, moved on. What exactly would I get from behaving like a stupid 14 year old and wasting both my and the recruiter's time by some "hey, yo, call me when you stop exploiting poor people you shit" or what.

@Gargron @pony

...because confronting helps to make issues visable.
Also social presure shapes our culture.

I just don't know why you start to marginalize 14 years old ppl within your argumenation.
pls don't waste my time with such things.

@paulfree14 @Gargron Except the way Gargamel wanted to do it has nothing with "confronting", it's just immature snarky unfunny joke, I know recruiters who deal with that and it's just tiresome crap that leads nowhere. But yeah, sure, go ahead and fight the evil corporation like this. Much wow.

@pony @paulfree14 @gargron these recruiters are very rarely *directly* employed by big corporates: wider problem in tech economy is the current culture of insecure short term contract gigs means not everyone can *afford* to be "principled".

Consider if you had recently got married/your partner was pregnant - current contract ends and then you are offered a work with some "bad"
company (adtech, defence etc).how many folk *would* turn that down?
(OK "heterocentric" example but it is common IRL).

@Gargron I may be a bad person, but I usually try to waste their time with walls of text that seem like excitement at first, but ends up with pointers to stuff that would have let them not send the message in the first place.

(I have a page I have set up, and point recruiters to at the end, with pretty much all my requirements & preferences. I *feel* this helps.)

@Gargron I love when I get headhunter emails talking about my "GitHub Activity" my GH is just full of sample code and half finished projects that are probably more comments then code. Those emails are good for a good laugh though. 😆

@Gargron Recruiters that you didn't hire yourself are generally trash, yeah. (Or: The ones who aren't trash send fewer emails and are therefore less visible.) Everything interesting I've heard about has been from networking or searches.

It's really, really hard not to be snarky, but I do often give feedback like "I'm not interested in working with recruiters, and also that company is uninteresting because <politely stated description of company being evil>".