250 Questions, 20 Essays, Zero Phone Calls

Before a single introductory call, a sales candidate was asked to answer 250 personality and organisation questions, write 20 multi-part strategy essays, and document his work history back to high school. He did all of it. The company's response was to inform him he "wasn't selected" - the promised phone screen never happened. So he emailed the CEO directly with an itemised invoice for his time at his consulting rate and an ultimatum to pay it. The post cleared 11,000 upvotes in two days.