I am not saying that a government list like the one proposed in Ohio is good. I think it is terrible. But a list managed by an industry group where the keepers of the list are direct stakeholders of the list, while not beholdend to Freedom of Information requests, as suggested by the parent comment, is even worse.

Ah, maybe I misunderstood you. You said that it is not an issue of ghosting but of reneging on an agreement, while the parent comment had a clear example of reneging on an agreement. Also, as far as I know rescinded job offers are quite difficult to persue legally as contracts usually have some trial period where any side can cease the contract for any reason (or are completely at will). But I have never persued such action so I am not sure what the precedent is.

How is recinding an offer not reneging on an agreement?

Expecting basic curtesies and being frustrated and irritated when someone did not do a tiny bit of effort to save you a lot of time and money is fine.

Advocating for an industrialized system to ruin peoples lives because of it is the problem.

Sure, wasting peoples time is awful and should be avoided (from both sides). The thing is, coming in saying that any government list/database is inherently evil, so let’s have private companies do it instead is a take that is bound to invite some very heated arguments.

An industry list is a system that (I believe) is ripe for abuse.

Some problems I can think of from the top of my head

• Listing applicants that rejected offers to prevent them from getting better offers elsewhere
• Applicant time wasted if they are blacklisted (an industry list has no incentive to publish said list. Job seekers would just keep sending out applications never knowing why they do not get through the automated application filtering step)
• Listing your own employees to prevent them from switching to a better company
• Plain old spite if you left a previous employer on bad terms
• I am sure companies can come up with some creative other uses of list mechanics

Also, an industry blacklisting an individual does not have an even effect as a reciprocal list where companies with unfair hiring practices (such as ghost jobs that never get filled or ghosting applicants without explanation) get listed. If the effect would be the same (i.e. not being able to work in said field), then the sanction on a company would effectively be dissolution (difficult to run a company if you are not able to do any work in the field that your company specializes in).

I feel for you missing out on time with your family. I have myself also worked overtime because I was enthousiastic about a specific project or task, but part of choosing to work that overtime is accepting the risk that the time will not be successful or productive.

If this has happend multiple times, I would say, be less flexible in your planning, and don’t work overtime but spend time with your loved ones. (If you live in a jurisdiction where overtime is not defacto mandatory)

Say there is a pile of company time wasted by applicants and a pile of applicant time wasted by companies, then I think we both know which pile is bigger.