Not the same but once working on auditing a government contract we were giving hell to the contractor because of the shitty job they were doing, just to receive a call from the contractor looking for an expert in the field, and on LinkedIn I must be highly ranked so they called me. That conversation was funny.
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I'd take that as time to jump before I'm pushed
For a large company that hires more or less nonstop it's not necessarily a bad sign. It's not even that unusual if your social media doesn't make it clear exactly where you work. If it were a small company, or the large company is hiring for my team specifically, and I didn't know we had a position open, I would be concerned.
Companies that hire non-stop are shitholes and terrible employers.
I double down on my statement.
That's fair enough, they are terrible for a lot of reasons. I just wouldn't take this as cause for particular alarm. The general and all-pervading unease of being a cog in a massive unconscious profit-maximizing metabeing is a separate but very good reason to seek a livelihood elsewhere.
Depends on the size of the company. If a company has 3000 employees in a job family, and 1% leave per year (due to retirement, personal life reasons, etc.), they need to hire more than a person every single working day just to keep the head count.
If a company has 3000 employees it needs to be broken up into smaller operating units.
A company like that will also have zero issue shrugging you off with 500 others without a care because they want to "pivot to AI" or some bullshit.
My company is hiring like mad. We're growing very quickly. And promoting almost everyone after a year or so. A wild ride.
Nice. So, um, what company? And do they allow remote workers?
My company is big enough to have multiple times my role and we have lost some of them recently. I definitely don't feel threaten by this lazy recruiter mistake.
Update your resume, ask for a raise, run away!
A long time ago, a company posted a job offer for my job. I was the only system administrator / DevOps. They hired a junior, and I knew that they wanted to fire me. The new guy knew nothing about Linux, and I was supposed to train him. Training new people was not in my work contract, let's say that it was a disaster but I was happy knowing that it would destroy the company.
I was once recruited for a position I was let go from.
Did you rejoin?
No, I was happy at my new job
Nice, I thought you were still looking.
This sounds like matching with your current girlfriend on tinder.
Do you like piña coladas?
I spotted my girlfriend at the time on Grindr. That's certainly a situation.
Missed opportunity to find out if they're trying to replace you with someone more expensive, or cheaper.
Either way, not too good...
It's never someone more expensive.
I'm paid the same as the advertised "up to". We are bleeding people due to RTO so I know they are recruiting for that.
I was once contacted by a recruiter for a role I was on the hiring team for. there doesn't seem to be a lot of thought going on in their heads when they copy paste their intro message to everyone who matches their linkedin search.
Much more fun: I worked as a freelancer, job needed to be publicly tendered for again after a while. Customers department was very satisfied and really wanted to keep me in the project. Turned out that I was not qualified for the job according to the job description their purchasing department published. I find that hilariously funny.
It's happened twice after leaving a job, that I've been contacted by a recruiter who wants me to fill the same role in the company I just left.
If you like Piña coladas...
Hahahahah, wow, nice connection.