I told him at the end of last week that I didn't like the bait and switch he pulled on me and that I would not work with him again. I didn't take the call he set me up on. He said how he had to repair damage with the client he was courting with my resume.

He kept trying to pitch opportunities Monday to which I didn't respond.

He sent an email to my boss with my resume yesterday.

It's entirely too convenient to be stupidity.

EDIT: I just found out from my boss that there was no prior back and forth between the recruiter and him when the recruiter sent him my resume. My boss didn't respond to emails or calls. The recruiter just sent him my resume.

OK, that headhunter is a scum. But there is no damage from your side. I don't know if you can sue him or not, but if you can there's little to gain from it, so the best would be to just ignore him.

I even doubt incompetence. If he has my resume with my current job listed on it and pitches to that exact same job, it's purposeful and malicious.

The difference between incompetent and malicious is a sliding scale, not two discrete slots. If a recruiter isn't checking resumes properly before sending them out, he's already maliciously decided that quantity sent out is more important than doing quality work. I'd even say his decision to become a recruiter in the first place is malicious, the recruiting industry's very existence being based on hiding information, poaching workers from unfinished jobs, and legal trickery.

>vorg: That's a fascinating view of recruiting albeit myopic. A recruiters role is NOT to shanghai people or break up a happy home. Given the confidential and highly personal nature of the business, a certain degree of trust and transparency is always required.

The incompetence assumption-- lazy recruiters often bundle send resumes, based on keyword results sorted in their database. The profiles can look mind numbingly similar. It's easy to overlook individuals & company names if you're not paying attention.

I'd like to but they don't really have the right people to contact on their site. I also figured I should break off contact in the case that I speak with a lawyer. From what I've learned in the past, the next person to contact them should be a lawyer.

> they don't really have the right people to contact on their site.

In situations like that, I usually send it by certified mail, return receipt requested, with an address like this:

  XYZ Corporation
  ATTENTION:  LEGAL DEPARTMENT
  [street address, etc.]

The "Attention: Legal Department" part, plus the certified mail, will normally get the attention of the mailroom people, who presumably will route the letter to where it needs to go.

Pro tip: Get a certified-mail card from the post office before you put the letter in the envelope. Write or print out the certified-mail serial number (from the card) on the letter itself. Keep a photocopy of the letter, with the certified-mail number on it, in your files. That way, you'll have evidence that you sent that letter with that certified-mail card.

(Long ago at a motion hearing, an opposing counsel told a judge that he never got a certain letter from a colleague of mine, for whom I was filling in at the hearing. The opposing counsel said, "Your Honor, my secretary signed the card, but it must have been for some other communication, because I never got this letter." My colleague hadn't put the certified-mail number on the letter, so I had no proof otherwise; the judge gave the opposing counsel the benefit of the doubt. A couple of years after that, the opposing counsel was disbarred, for something unrelated.)

I told my employer I was planning on leaving, then changed my mind. Both my employer and I are happy with my work. I was seeing what else is out there. This definitely feels like malicious intent.

I'm not too worried about losing my job. I told my employer I was planning on leaving, then changed my mind. I'm part of the hiring committee for my current employer. So I was surprised when I saw my own resume sent out by my boss. I was able to piece together the timeline when my boss told me when the recruiter sent my resume to him.

The general public is apathetic towards politics.

Seems like a cop out, like you're blaming the public, sure some people don't care. What about the ones that do? Or all the people that vote? How can you engage, make them care, ect.

Hopefully we still have a few good men on the inside.

If there ever were a service deserving of an indefinite DDOS, this would be it.

There was. It was called Facemash and is now Facebook.

That's kind of like touching a boiling pot of water to see if it's hot. You know you're going to get burned, but you have to check anyway.

Excellent. I've been trying out Dropbox lately. I will give Box a go and do a write up comparing both.