{
  "registry_version": "2026.08.2",
  "data": {
    "title": "Stale or Orphaned Job Requisition",
    "status": "active",
    "evidence_ids": [
      "EVD-004"
    ],
    "content": "# Stale or Orphaned Job Requisition\n\nJob posting remains active on careers page and aggregator portals despite the team having ceased active hiring or closed headcount.\n\n### Structural Context\n- **Actor:** `system`\n- **Nature:** `void`\n- **Removability:** `none`\n\n### Causal Relations\n- Amplifies `M-020` — Automated Application Expiration Timeout\n\n### Non-Inferences\n- Application silence does not reflect candidate suitability.",
    "id": "M-006",
    "type": "mechanism",
    "summary": "Job posting remains active on careers page and aggregator portals despite the team having ceased active hiring or closed headcount.",
    "operates_at": [
      "B-013",
      "B-001",
      "B-002",
      "B-003"
    ],
    "emissions": [
      {
        "artifact": "A-001",
        "fidelity": "void",
        "likelihood": "high",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-004"
        ]
      },
      {
        "artifact": "A-004",
        "fidelity": "noise",
        "likelihood": "medium",
        "evidence": [
          "EVD-004"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "facets": {
      "actor": "system",
      "nature": "void",
      "visibility": "opaque",
      "removability": "none"
    },
    "amplifies": [
      "M-020"
    ],
    "masks": [],
    "evidence_level": "established",
    "honest_baseline": false,
    "specimens": [
      {
        "kind": "chat",
        "label": "Asking whether the role is alive",
        "lines": [
          {
            "speaker": "Candidate",
            "at": "day 0",
            "text": "I applied for this in January and again in March — is the posting current?",
            "tell": false
          },
          {
            "speaker": "Recruiter",
            "at": "day 2",
            "text": "Let me check. That team stopped hiring in December; the listing should have come down. I will get it removed.",
            "tell": true
          }
        ],
        "reading": "The posting was not bait and it was not a decision. It was a record nobody owned, which is a different thing to be angry at."
      }
    ],
    "non_inferences": [
      "Application silence does not reflect candidate suitability."
    ]
  }
}