Fun idea to throw around, but probably a terrible idea in practice. If they work out who you really are, you could find yourself jobless and blacklisted. Knowing your rights won't help much after that.
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I'm employed in a sector with zero contact with callcenters, which is most what I've been seeing as the worst offenders. Besides that, my country has a regulation that forces all data on applicants to be destroyed after 12 months. And to top this off, most of these companies don't retain people long enough to create memory.
HR people get around, and can easily switch industries. If you do enough "damage", you will be remembered. If you dont do enough damage to be remembered, are you really achieving anything worthwhile?
Your risk to take obviously, stay safe.
Most of the people landing in these companies are damaged goods. I'm a monster to think as I do but my intention is to exploit frailties and leave scars and expose bad practices to the national work conditions authority. I don't intend to jump into another industry; I'm approaching tenure where I am currently and intend to take it.
who says they have to apply with their real name? you can apply for jobs without compromising opsec
Applying with a fake name is obvious, but it only takes one slip up.
I truly wonder what's the purpose of that behaviour though. Kill every last bit of motivation pre-job? I remember a time, when the hiring process wasn't pure vitriol. Are these HR people so fed up with their jobs or what's going on?
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.
Currently, here, I think it is a dangerous mix of having an influx of immigrants, that are deemed expendable/low value, paired with an obcession of pushing people into submission, so they just take whatever is thrown at them.
I've listened to a couple of interviews on my partner and the recruiters were borderline abusive.