"Ughhhhhhhhhh people keep emailing me to offer high paying jobs and I have to click archive."-The most first world problem in the history of the universe.
And they said some go to the lengths of calling the mobile number of every engineer at their company. So basically the recruiter is just an extremely persistent salesperson who distracts the entire company in hopes that they'll find a way to sell their product.
2. A recruiter never emails you to offer you a job, he's asking you to apply for some position. There's no guarantee you'll get the job. If he's a good recruiter, he studied your profile and knows you're a good match. That's pretty rare. Most of the time, recruiters are just spamming a list of emails addresses of people working in the general field when just a quick look at the linkedin profile would be enough to see that it would be a very bad match.
Even studying your CV, they can only match up two words. They have no idea that the concepts of RDBMS are SQL pretty synonymous.
Also, the "First World Problem" meme is so tired by now. A problem doesn't need to be as bad as starvation to be worth solving.
I mean seriously, as everyone as pointed out this post is not about that problem in the first place. If you actually read the post you would see that they made a pretty cool little hack. Try calling the number, (415) 534-6560, for yourself. It sounds surprisingly real.
I agree 100%
However, he has the opposite issue, he has job openings and he's getting spam from recruiters proposing candidates.
OTOH, there's one type of recruiter spam that annoys me: the ones that spam with openings where I explicitly say I'm not authorized to work, so, surprise surprise, if you're incompetent to see that, I don't trust you (It's the "no brown M&Ms of recruiting")