I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

421 points by speckx 5 days ago

> If your potential employer is dehumanizing you before you’re on the payroll, how will they treat you once hired?

For me, this is the key point. If a company can't even be bothered to show up for my interview -- when everyone is trying to put their best foot forward -- that bodes very ill for how I'll be treated if I were to work there.

arctic-true - 4 days ago

I had this experience when I was trying to find an apartment - multiple different buildings very clearly had AI-generated responses. (To all you builders out there: quick replies are great. Instant replies are suspicious.) I immediately stopped considering them as options. If you can’t be bothered to have a human respond to my email when I’m trying to give you my money, what level of service can I expect once I’m already obligated to pay rent?
- skeuomorphism - 4 days ago
  
  This is more or less the go-to standard in the usa. One property manager handles possibly hundreds in an association, or dozens of townhomes, and will refuse to speak to you directly, except through a maintenance request system. Its incredibly depressing
  - AnotherGoodName - 4 days ago
    
    The electrical panel beeps an alarm constantly. Sent an email to the property management company. Guy comes over and presses a button to silence it for 24 hours. Rinse repeat for months on end. No method of escalation beyond the automatic replying inbox. I’m fine. twitch twitch Welcome to 21st century distopia!
    
    Eisenstein - 4 days ago
    
    Whatever that panel is responsible for, that thing isn't working properly, its just set to be silent temporarily. Find out what regulatory body in your town deals with that panel's responsibility, contact them telling them that of the issue and say that you have contacted them when you submit your next ticket.
    
    ryandrake - 4 days ago
    
    ...and deal with that regulatory body's automated bot response.
    Customer service is bots all the way down.
    
    jclulow - 4 days ago
    
    I had some serious struggles with the delinquent landlord and property owners, and the dangerously incompetent builders that plagued our building in Alameda for years. While they were not always legally empowered to come and stop the skulduggery, the Alameda city council offices of planning and compliance were the only people who consistently and professionally responded to phone calls and emails and were available if you went to their offices. People complain about public servants, but at least in Alameda they were really good people doing their best.
    
    _DeadFred_ - 4 days ago
    
    The Republicans have spent 40 years with their intentional policy being to make government services worse so that the Republicans can then point to that and say 'we need to get rid of government'.
    It's hard for government to function well when half of it is trying to sabotage itself. The fact it works as good as it does after 40 years of that is a tribute to public servants.
    
    idiotsecant - 4 days ago
    
    Generally public sector employees are pretty good. Demonizing them is part of the movement to tear down the machine of state that we spent the last few hundred years building, so that a select few can grab chunks of the burning wreckage on the way down.
    
    bryanrasmussen - 4 days ago
    
    https://medium.com/luminasticity/services-of-illuminati-gang...
    if you get a response from the "Bureaucrat Bot" you just got to fire up the "Annoy Customer Service Bot" as a counter-measure
    
    jacquesm - 4 days ago
    
    Call your building's insurance company. That will get you a very precise response pronto because they're going to use this as an excuse not to pay out if anything should happen to the building.
    
    nradov - 4 days ago
    
    How would a tenant identify the insurer?
    
    jacquesm - 4 days ago
    
    Minutes of HOA is where I would normally get that kind of info. They have to justify the amount you pay and the insurance invoice is normally divided across all of the tenants.
    
    nradov - 4 days ago
    
    That only works for unit owners, not tenants.
    
    jacquesm - 3 days ago
    
    It would seem to me that you then need to have a chat with a unit owner.