Ordering a pizza is more transparent than applying to a job

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3 points·holistio··4 comments

> You open your delivery app of choice, spend 5 minutes and $20 maybe ordering a pizza...

Reaction: Five minutes futzing with the stupid app? I guess I'll stick with my "always call 'em" rule for ordering pizza. Bonus - if they're too shorthanded to make my pie in a reasonable time, then it's pretty likely that either they're too shorthanded to answer the phone, or the person who picks up will be honest about their order backlog.

I just assumed not everybody always orders the same pizza from the same place, like I do. Truffles and parmigiano reggiano.

> Yet, we're kind of okay with not hearing back from a company.

I am perfectly fine with that. I keep applying until I actually have a job, so telling me that I did not get a job doesn't do much for me other than clutter my inbox.

The people who think they are being respectful by trying to schedule a time to talk with me to tell me that I did not get a job are really just wasting my time. I gain nothing from that interaction at all and had to allocate a block of time to it.

That's our point as well: public stage labels helps with keeping things transparent.

You don't want to do a cringe meeting. You don't want a corporate email. You just want one bit of information.

Especially when it's a job you really want, not when it's one of the 200 you applied to - I've done that before.

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