Employment is an abusive relationship

Their boss is like: “Where is the new hire? We’re losing money.” And they just got rejected by the one person they didn’t reject and come up empty handed.

They are selfish assholes. I have no other explanation but I believe I’m right.

They got pissed that you weren’t as desperate as they thought you were when they rejected everyone else in favor of you, and wanted more info to weed people like you out earlier in the future. Or to pressure you into changing your mind; that would suit their desires equally well, being pressure-able or desperate are basically the same for employers.

At least that’s my assumption. I’ve had similar experiences turning jobs down that I just didn’t want after talking to several people, or hearing more about the job, and they all get upset about it. But they certainly won’t be changing anything, so it’s not like there’s a valid reason to demand an explanation.

Whenever that happens, I just tell them “I’ve explained myself sufficiently, and I don’t work for nor do business with your company. I thus have no compelling reason to continue interacting with you, particularly for something you want me to give you that comes at a time and effort cost to me.” I bid them farewell, and am prepared to block/ignore them if they send me anything else. I chose the phrasing to be direct, and let them know it was a wildly inappropriate ask, while still being reasonably professional. I have never gotten a follow-up after that.

It will take a lot of wealth redistribution before I can feel sympathy for any employer again

It likely jams their brains. Accepting a sudden change of plans is a skill. They rarely have to practice it. When it happens they either want to understand it (and so ask a lot of questions). Or they want to make it go away, and so try and bully you into accepting.

You sometimes see a similar thing in dating. Women almost never have to deal with direct rejection. Most are smart enough to take it gracefully, but a few get wildly inappropriate and aggressive about it. Men are on the other side of it. More used to being rejected, and so better at rolling with the punches. You still get a few that react badly however.

They rejected the other candidates and now have nobody, so they are back at square one. It’s no worse for them as it would be for a person, but they have systematised it and are used to the upper hand. In the case of rejection, they lose their system and the upper hand.

Human Resources is not your friend. They are there to serve and protect the company. The fact that we all just accept that humans are nothing more than a resource to them, to the point that they just admit it outright, is just depressing.

At best, they’re petulant toddlers, but the questionnaires smack of training their algorithm.

Perceived leverage. Perception of value… Everybody acting as they are a king but relative in the hierarchy we are all slaves pushed and pulled by external forces. It seems like getting a job is like buying a car. It’s a song and dance. They take forever on purpose. They’re really trying to like torture you subliminally. And physically. These are all just policies from the top and they literally just want to demoralize you. So you’ll be happy for crumbs. It’s a web of nonsense just to maintain the hierarchy. We are literally in a standstill, in my opinion, when it comes to human progress. I mean, it seems they’re getting better at killing poor people in other countries. But then again, even that they can be critiqued over due to some of their recent failures, in which I celebrate… I think just the modern day yankee capitalist is maybe just dumb. They have their secret plans, but once the veil is removed, it’s just gonna be a sad droopy dick. This AI nonsense is almost over. Just a silly-ass parlor trick that’s really just going to be used for the surveillance state. What a fucking wretched world.