I am right now looking to find a side job for summer (I'm a freelance teacher and I'm extra poor during summer) and I am applying to some random customer care jobs.
I adapted the CV by getting rid of any didactic achievement or skill and instead stressing out the fact that I am good at listening to students and their parents, at communicating with them via phone, mail and social, and that I'm pretty good at analysing problematic situations and tactfully suggesting the best course of action.
I don't specifcially care about any one of these jobs I'm applying for, they are more or less all the same, and almost all those companies seem cold and careless toward workers, so I am just spamming this general CV with the same minimalist introductory email. I decided to go quantity over quality of presentation.
This lead me thinking… it would really be a good practice if everybody every week sent a bunch of applications to companies they don't really want to be hired by, just to normalise some behaviours, like immediately asking for how much the salary is and immediately talking in a non-obsequious way to the recruiters, and even being rude if they don't reply/reply in a cold way. Or even just being fucking weird to them.
This could be a side job in itself. Some donation-founded organizations could be created, which will then reward the people who spend a hour or so every day doing this with some money.
Then I realized that, by using AI, it's not even required to ask people for too much money, and the volume of spam applications can increase dramatically.
I would be interested in hearing what are the flaws in this plan according to r/antiwork. One thing would be that it would turn the recruiter's role even more into hell, but then hey, they can ask for a raise or quit, making the recruitment process even more difficult for companies, or force them to waste resources on technological solutions to the problem.