Don't pull him fully into this thread. He's irreplaceable to another thread. Come on, now. Have some emotions. On point--humans DO have emotions, and companies violate the law on all sorts of things (age bias, gender bias, trashing current employees, etc) with no qualms whatsoever. In academia, you're supposed to do a full search for any faculty opening. Doesn't matter if you know that you want to hire someone specific--you have to do the full search in case someone even better applies. So a lot of schools will run a fake "search" knowing the outcome in advance. I saw it firsthand once, where the two finalists for a faculty position did campus interviews (time-consuming, work intensive, horrible things--you are basically under the microscope continuously for about 36-48 hours of meetings, teaching demos, meet and greets, etc). Everyone felt horrible for this woman from a top school because she was the ONLY one who didn't know that her candidacy wasn't "real." And this was at a religious school (like, hard-core religious, with monks and **** on campus). When the laws require the businesses to police themselves, they only follow those laws when doing so happens to coincide with what they want. Crappy, but true.
