My partner is currently job hunting and I’ve got to know some very ugly behaviours from interviewers and train staff, towards the people applying for those jobs.
From snarky attitudes, to blattant lies and attempts on trying to withold information or ignore legal impositions and rights, these companies are power tripping and the people in them are deranged.
Well, I happen to have a job and am fairly aware of my rights, so I’m considering applying for these interviews and throw some poison back at this people.
Problem is no humanity in “human resources”.
Exclusive clandestine agents of the business that work to train you to be as vulnerable as you can with them. Only as info gathering to be used as leverage against you if needed. Especially in the US now with the collapse of already lacking agencies like the NLRB, CFPB, FTC, etc… folks need to really JOLT themselves out of programming according to an old rulebook.
Whistleblowers are literally ending up dead, companies are adjusting their tolerance for inclusive practices and they are quickly losing fear of any regulation or retaliation.
Fuck 'em. Any way you find a way to slow things down or make them difficult. The social contract is broken, so quit trying to hold up your end with corporations. You aren’t going to help them grow a conscience with your righteous and admirable principled adhesion to the old rules as they stab you and colleagues in the back.
I admire your spirit, OP. Be careful. Operate outside of your own industry if possible. Find job descriptions within that industry, directly copy key terms and add to a fake resume that will catch the attention of their sorting algorithm on job boards. As companies continue mass layoffs for sport to juice a stock price, the “talent acquisition” people only see you as pigs coming into slaughter (or at best, the fresh meat at the top of the grinder that will inevitably push the old meat through the grinder dye).
Society is in the decline. Internalize that. Act accordingly. Doesn’t mean you have to set it on fire or give up a fight, but they’ve shifted the overton window on human decency. Your principled stand doesn’t even register on the scale anymore.