Employed or unemployed, it's seems so offensive to me to not care about people's time. When I'm employed, I'm probably using a vacation day to talk to you. That's special time I would otherwise spend with my family and on not burning myself out.

When I was not employed, I paid for the gas to drive 90 minutes each way and spent an entire day not looking at other opportunities to be hired or other ways to improve my resume, only to be told by the director that although I did very well in the interviews, they would be getting back to me in 3 months when they found out if their hiring freeze was over then, because at the present time the opening was not yet truly open.

Have some respect for human beings, regardless of their employment status.

My petty revenge against amazon mistreating my partner when they worked there is to aggressively pursue onsite interviews with them. I refuse to do initial phone screens - a tactic which often works to go directly to onsite since amazon is clueless and desperate.

I don't study for their stupid whiteboards and I don't study their stupid leadership principals. I on purpose refuse to use them during behavioral interviews (also refuse use the STAR method). I've had at least 5 full onsites like this. By my calculations, the wasted time and effort from amazon on myself was worth at least 100K given the number of highly paid engineers/managers who wasted their time interviewing me.

Not necessarily, what about hourly workers or those that have to use PTO/sick day? I would consider burning a PTO day to be losing money.

Time is money. Wasting a vacation day hurts too.

It's both really.

You mean only when employed.