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Any org found guilty of posting a ghost role must pay one year salary to every applicant. All job postings must include the salary. If the salary is not posted, the fine will be the highest paid employee’s compensation.

Everyone who okayed the ghost role being posted is barred from any involvement in hiring processes for life.

That’s my fantasy, anyway.

I always fucking knew that the job market was full of shit, now I know it’s more full of shit than I thought.

Companies keep ghost jobs active for several reasons:

To build candidate pipelines for roles that might open later

To signal growth during hiring freezes

To leave approved positions stuck in limbo due to budget cuts

To satisfy internal posting requirements or HR quotas

So in other words companies are ghouls willing to turn what is already a grueling process nowadays into an even more gruelling one simply for the sake of gaining more metrics?

So glad I never really was and never will be in this hellhole. Every jobs markets related news I read for the last decades is bad. And the anecdotal stories I’ve heard from some people that do or have to work, are horrifying. Like 7 rounds of interviewing-process. Jeez.

My financially challengd parents (boomer) called some company, asked if they were hiring and got the job next day. And they still complained it was so hard finding a job 😁