Jon Pretty

hey @propensive remember the time we talked about the "typelevel no hire list" and how it is just some figment of sam's imagination because kelly once said that vincent shouldn't be hired because he wished conferences should never have CoCs?

as I remember it, you said that you talked to him, and found out out that this whole no hire list was just kelly, who has never had anything to do with scala said somehting once

people are still talking about this no-hire list as if it actually existed, any way you could chime in here?

Yes, I have seen no evidence of the list. I can't prove its non-existence, of course, but I think the rumors of it have been a convenient prop in arguments. It's very easy, when someone is rejected from a job, to believe there might be something unfair going on.

I think this is why the rumors of the "no-hire list" have persisted. I have heard of one specific account of someone applying for a job in a team where someone accused of proliferating a no-hire list was working, which was unexpectedly ended.

By coincidence, I am currently in the same room as that person, so I asked them directly whether they had any evidence of a no-hire list, and they don't. They acknowledge that it's nothing more than speculation that they weren't hired.