A few years ago I turned down a job I was offered through a recruiter and they were livid. They acted as if I actually owed them something, the silly twats.
A few years ago I turned down a job I was offered through a recruiter and they were livid. They acted as if I actually owed them something, the silly twats.
I've had the same. I told him the commute was too much for me (over the dartford crossings twice a day at rush hour). The hours advertised were the 'building hours' so I was under the impression the role was outside of rush hour, only to be told at the interview that it was 9-5. That can add an hour to the journey each way. No chance.
He sat on Google maps reading me the commute time (for 11am on a Tuesday) and gave me a roasting for it. Cunt.
Any reason you didn't just hang up?
I genuinely think that recruitment as an industry will largely die in the next decade. There'll be an Uber/Purple Bricks equivalent that employers will start using instead.
I spoke to a recruiter recently about hiring someone. They wanted 20% of their annual salary and if they worked for me for more than 4 weeks, I'd not get a penny back. It's an absolute con.
Recruiters are just salesmen under a different name, and if a salesman loses a sale he thought he had then he will a) seethe and b) claw desperately to recover it.
This won't work everywhere but the firm I work for currently push the refer a friend scheme really hard. They give you a grand if a referral pass probation, which is a good chunk, but is a hell of a lot less than they'd pay a recruiter. We must get things out every month or other month about referring people.
How many TTHers have you referred?
I'm drinking free pints on the company, for once work is not shit.
It will be in the morning.
Early bed as I'll be driving to a job first thing unfortunately. The boss would near be offended if I didn't have a few, so happy to oblige. He gave out to me on the phone one evening before because I wasn't going to charge a few.
Classic Shindig.
Trying to download CV to laptop. MS Word trial has expired. Don't wish to pay. Any top tips?
Can you save it as a PDF? Way better format to send a CV in anyway.
Or google docs actually, I'd forgot that.
I'd still save and send as a pdf though.
Thanks, but I don't wish to come across as Jeremy Corbyn to any prospective employers.
@ Boyd
Edit: TBF I could save libre as pdf and send that. Thanks lads.
Last edited by Mellberg; 06-06-2019 at 08:27 PM.
Open it in Google docs then save it as a PDF. Noone at my place bothers with word anymore.
Was working from home today. Got asked via IM by annoying manager if I would be willing to travel for work. I asked where to and for how long. She said that wasn't the question so I said well then the answer is 'it depends'.
Then she sent an email to everyone asking about their willingness and ability to travel and any reasons they have for not wanting to travel. She then sent me an IM saying to consider it and respond as per the email. I asked if we could talk about it tomorrow in person (intending to tell them I'd taken the job offer elsewhere) and she was like 'no - I need it today for X' so I was just like "I'm quittin', how'd'ya like them apples?".
Gotta discuss it in a meeting tomorrow morning though. Not looking forward to that.
What did you really say?
I'm a twit
I didn't actually say the last part. I just told her (politely) that I had accepted another job offer and would be leaving soon so it was probably best not to factor me into any travel for work.
Also let's not make out like they did me some kind of favour by giving me a job like I was some charity case. They weren't the only offer I had at the time.
Is it fuck. The only sensible answer to 'would you be willing to travel for work' is 'how far and for how long?'. If they get shitty about you wanting to base your decision on whether you're travelling to the next town or to fucking Australia then that's on them. Fuck 'em.
It's a contingency thing, by the sounds of it. They asked us the same questions years back.
Got rid of my fuel benefit today, so that should save me about 250 quid a month in tax. I have to pay for my own fuel now but don't do that much personal mileage.
Jesus christ, do you want me to post a transcript
I'm convinced Phonics is autistic.
I thought it would be obvious the last line wasn't what I actually said. I'm a big fanny, I hate confrontation.
Travel as in part of the job or travel as in we're re-locating to China.
I got offered the job I interviewed for last week. Chuffed all around, cuts out 2 hours of driving every day and the role seems fairly interesting.
Now for the awkward part of handing my notice in at my current place.
Binning off a shit commute.
That's the dream.
I've done about 50,000 miles in just under 2 years driving up and down that same stretch of M4. My car will be glad of the respite too.
You weren't wrong there. Heart was racing! I feel a little bad, as I like the guys I work with here but the job move is a no-brainer really.
When moving from my last job to this one was the only time I've put in my notice (a few years before that I'd had a shit job where a fixed-term contract was ending and they wanted me to sign a new one but refusing to do so wasn't quite the same) but the place had gone to shit so it was a good feeling and I couldn't wait to have the new one confirmed so I could do it.
As an added bonus our idiot hag of a senior manager never spoke to me for basically any of my last month after that so it was a win on all fronts.
Good stuff. I fucking live for the bullshit pettiness. What kind of mega-spaz expects you to volunteer for travel when you don't know where/how long for?
btw - she was obviously trying to shaft you - probably getting you to ship out to India/Kiev and train up some outsource people who'd replace your entire team
Officially resigned now. Got the offer letter from the new place yesterday and felt a bit sad about leaving and that. But then spoke to one of the guys who started around the same time as me (he's been looking out too) and he said he was getting shit from that same manager about not wanting to travel so definitely feel I'm making the right move again now.
I fucking hate printers. There's no one job full of more gatekeeping and more incompetentcy, I swear.
I'm being told that they won't print my flyer because one of the circles is RGB. I sent them this screenshot.
Still RGB according to this idiot. I haven't had this issue with any printer in my 4 years here. I hate them all.
Turns out some people think switching their monitor off counts as locking their computer when they’re away from their desk.
I'm a twit
I'm talking about an actual human being here. Fucking useless. I sent exactly the same pdf back to her and now it's CMYK. Fucking bitch. They live to annoy designers.
Why did it matter that it was supposedly RGB? Shouldn't they still be able to print it?