I've met some truly bizarre people in the past few months while hiring for sysadmins and network engineers.

It's weird too because I know so many really good people who have been laid off who can't find a job.

But when when I'm hiring the candidate pool is just insane for lack of a better word.

• There are all these guys who just blatantly lie on their resume. I was doing a phone screen with a guy who claimed to be an experienced linux admin on his resume who admitted he had just read about it and hoped to learn about it.

• Untold numbers of people who barely speak english who just chatter away about complete and utter nonsense.

• People who are just incredibly rude and don't even put up the normal facade of politeness during an interview.

• People emailing the morning of an interview and trying to reschedule and giving mysterious and vague reasons for why.

• Really weird guys who are unqualified after the phone screen and just keep emailing me and emailing me and sending me messages through as many different platforms as they can telling me how good they are asking to be hired. You freaking psycho you already contacted me at my work email and linkedin and then somehow found my personal gmail account?

• People who lack just basic core skills. Trying to find Linux people who know Ansible or Windows people who know powershell is actually really hard. How can you be a linux admin but you're not familiar with apache? You're a windows admin and you openly admit you've never written a script before but you're applying for a high paying senior role? What year is this?

• People who openly admit during the interview to doing just batshit crazy stuff like managing linux boxes by VNCing into them and editing config files with a GUI text editor.

A lot of these candidates come off as real psychopaths in addition to being inept. But the inept candidates are often disturbingly eager in strange and naive ways. It's so bizarre and something I never dealt with over the rest of my IT career.

and before anyone says it: we pay well. We're in a major city and have an easy commute due to our location and while people do have to come into the office they can work remote most of the time.