I threatened the last Facebook recruiter I heard from with a C&D in response to the next one who ever contacted me, and I hereby authorize any Meta or Facebook employee to disclose minimal sufficient information, and only minimal sufficient information, from any ATS record in the names of Mark Aaron Miller or Aaron Wright Miller - I believe I had legally changed it to the latter by this time, but for all their vaunted or Sauronesque gaze, I am not sure they had actually noticed - to demonstrate the truth of that claim. Search for "counsel" and you're sure to find the LinkedIn message I'm referring to, though I won't guess offhand which year it was.

No one will risk anything like that, of course. You could get fired that way! But I haven't heard from a Facebook recruiter from that day to this, and I'm sure by now there are a lot of other companies whose representatives post and read here of whom that is also true. You believe yourself to be filtering me out of your scope of interest, and that's fine. I don't need you to understand yourself to be doing me a favor to do me one, and I think it would be absolutely the capstone of my life to find during discovery in a totally unrelated case that my name is present on some shitbag industry blacklist. Nothing could possibly more warm my heart than to know I'd so lived in such heads so rent free.