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points by ismailmaj 1 day ago | 0 comments

It's just the good old boring sunk cost fallacy.

it also just gets to the scammer end of the "who is stupid enough to keep doing this to the end". The point of a lot of scammer's poor grammar, huge red flags, etc, is _they_ dont want to waste _their_ time with someone other than the biggest marks in the world.

I just thought it should be clearer how many of these businesses likely operate to filter out.

[–] icantevenhold 1 day ago

Maybe I misunderstood but are you saying that companies have these lengthy interview procedures to filter out smart/capable/non-desperate candidates?

Sounds a bit counterproductive

[–] rjbwork 1 day ago

Depends on your goals.

A lot of places are looking for unambitious, mediocre, status-quo following bodies to fill seats and follow arcane bureaucratic processes. Too much critical thinking is bad. Ability to deal with long drawn out bullshit is good.

[–] icantevenhold 1 day ago

whelp I guess that makes sense.

I love working in tech because it’s so cushy and chill but it’s the most stupid (and delusional) industry i ever worked in.

[–] cyanydeez 19 hours ago

I'm saying business managers tend to follow patterns that gets them to the numbers on their paper. What you, or a single employee, sees as counter productive is often just a means to an end.

They'll spend 5x your ask for a raise finding someone to fill your position because denying you keeps the rest of their payroll in line. And if you consider these people communicate across their industries, they will make informal cartels that depress all employee wages.

So I wouldn't be surprised if there was just a natural way to filter our employees who would be to demanding by making them jump through more hoops.