Are Employers torturing applicants?

Is Craig's List doing a disservice to job seekers?

I applied at a huge company, Senesco, who had a sign out. I did a lengthy online resume, followed up with many follow up phone calls, and finally weeks later, a hand delivered one -to find out (while parked under their “accepting applications” sign) that they were sitting on 500 applications that they barely started going through. How many friggin’ applications does a company figure it needs to collect to find a qualified worker for an $20.00 an hour job? If everyone else had the same time into applying that I did (at least 3 hours) that’s $30,000.00 worth of unemployed peoples time! If everyone else is equally qualified (if their resume is even looked at) that means we may have to apply for 500 jobs to get one…That’s 1500 hours work -to find work. C’mon!

In these terrible times companies offering jobs need to pull their heads out of their asses so that they don’t pile more misery on top of to an already sad situation. Do we really need to legislate common courtesy?

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Is Craig's List doing a disservice to job seekers?