He Took the MacBook and Vanished From the Internet

A recruiter at a major tech company posted on Reddit about a new hire who was supposed to start on a Monday. On the day of joining, the candidate did not show up. His phone number had been disconnected. His LinkedIn profile was deleted. The company laptop, shipped to his address, was later found at a vacant lot, factory-reset. The recruiter joked he would now add "confirm candidate physically exists" to the pre-onboarding checklist. Reddit was divided: some called it theft, others called it "the logical endpoint of a system that treats candidates as disposable."