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>>terafl+(OP)
I've come to believe that there is a Murphy's law equivalent for tech recruiting. "If you can be abused as a technical candidate, you will be." It's just going to happen eventually that recruiters, either individual recruiters or recruitment firms/companies as a whole, will abuse your rights to just about everything or treat you with disrespect at some point or another. Developers are just commodities for these guys now.

>>jb1991+87
IDK when it recently started but I've been getting direct messages from various recruiters to an email that I only make public on certain open source packages. As a result I remove all instances of email and just mark every recruiter that I never reached out to as spam.

It's just so disrespectful, as you said.

>>azemet+J8
What is disrespectful? Their job? I think it only becomes disrespectful when they keep nagging after you have told them off or something. Otherwise, they are just doing their job, seeking out good candidates. It's not like all of them are conniving to swamp you, they act individually and what you eventually hate is the sum of those individual parts.

>>chirau+qb
It's disrespectful because I never consented to giving their company my email, nor have I consented to their services. This type of reasoning is why a vast majority of people never answer their phone, because there is a very large chance it'll be a phone call from a spammer/scammer.

I have no issues when I purposely choose to work with a recruiter, but invading aspects of my life when they never got permission to IS disrespectful.