job interview...
not funny but i thought i'd share it with you.
over the years like many people i've right royally failed at job interviews and on many occasions taken abuse and rude comments from my would-be managers.

personally i've always thought this behaviour is unprofessional, arrogant and unfair, after all the interviewee has made the effort to visit them. i'm sure most of you have been in a similar position.

i went for an interview at for a job as a recruitment consultant at hays, the set up was pretty much a good-cop bad-cop situation with an interview with two self indulgent fuck-with managers.

obviously the bad-cop was the more cretinous of the two, with an sense of arrogance & overly proud of percentages and typical boring shite that doesn't really matter in overall existence.

he started by saying "well martyn, i am very impressed with your CV, i can see you can make an impact here, but i have to say i am disappointed!"

"eerr? why?" was my reply.
"well you've got your name tag on from your current job, your tie is 'snaking' down your shirt and your shoes aren't leather, it's just unprofessional".

Sensing this interview wasn't going any where i had to interrupt:
"look, can i stop you there, where is this interview going? i've made an effort with time off work and i already feel that this interview isn't going any where. if this is the case i may as well leave now and get back to earning some money and not waist any further time".

"well that depends on how you feel, do you feel that you can salvage this interview and impress me?" he replied, then going on to state that i could be earning up to £3k a month. "if you feel this interview isn't going anywhere then you're welcome to leave, i must say though that you're appearance just isn't good enough, you've got to ask your self is it worth it?"

deciding for a brief few seconds, i eventually made my mind up and informed them "well you mentioned my appearance is 'unprofessional', i a vegan which is why my shoes aren't leather. i'm not sure what 'snaking' mean but the general rule of gravity usually cause ties run down shirts and as for the name tag... this was given to me by your receptionist, it's the name tag for this very interview, it even has your company's name on it...

...you also asked me if i feel it's worth trying to impress you. although the money is tempting, it still would never be worth working with a manager as self indulgent as your self. so i'm calling an end to this interview, you simply aren't worth it."


upon leaving i even handed him the "unprofessional" name tag. leaving that building felt so good, i felt more proud for sticking it to the man than i ever would if had i got the job.
(sweatytramp, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 12:43, 14 replies)

Yeah, you totally told him!
I bet you didn't even want that job anyway!
( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 12:49, closed)

when
are you ever going to make an original post?
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 12:57, closed)

I'm not wasting the good stuff on you lot, you only get passive-agrressive about it anyway.

( Amorous Badger NAKED BEA ARTHUR PHOTOS 4U, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 13:27, closed)

Well why don't you just go back to talk then?
( the pink chicken sniffer sniffs pink chickens., Fri 18 Jun 2010, 14:34, closed)

not even if we ask nicely?
meh
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 15:10, closed)

no wasn't overly exited about the role
any kind of sales role isn't really me.
not sure why i went (was a few years ago), i prob was keeping my options open.
(sweatytramp, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 13:07, closed)

Nicely done
There are some trades where fuckwitted arrogance is endemic, and sales (which is mostly what recruitment agencies are) is one of them.
(McChinaman banned, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 12:56, closed)

"interview at for a job as a recruitment consultant at hays"
Error. If you're going for a twattish job, expect to meet twats.
(bolshevette, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 12:59, closed)

This isn't really a case of the guy being a twat
they do it on purpose.

Environments like that are super competitive, the 'consultants' they employ are put on the phones and made to hustle for business. They encourage competition and backstabbing among the employees.

They need a certain type of person. If you don't have the right personality for it, you wouldn't last a day.

So they put someone in the interview to give you a hard time, to see how thick your skin is.

They were as happy to see you tell them to get stuffed and walk out as you were doing it. It meant niehter of you wasted your time.

That's not to say he wasn't a twat of course, but even if he wasn't, his job was to act like one.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 13:10, closed)

Yes, but he chose that job.
Every workplace bully I've ever heard of was 'passionate' about their 'high pressure' job which 'requires a thick skin.'

(edit) Although the free market does seem to encourage or reward the bad aspects of people's personality, and punish the good parts.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 14:08, closed)

well, if I get what you're saying . . .
It's actually not such a bad idea. The employee is in an even worse position if he has just left one job, and started a new one that he has no hope of sticking with.

It's a practical tactic for both sides. The potential employee won't gain anything by having a nice comfortable interview for a job in a shark pond that he can't handle.

It makes sense.
( Not Pineapple anymore, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 14:17, closed)

Good on ya
and for showing up a right twat. (Him, not you for showing up at an interview!)
( Blind Meach Cautiously optimistic, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 13:11, closed)

yeah', that is exactly how everyone else in the room saw it happen too.

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 13:55, closed)

"on many occasions taken abuse and rude comments from my would-be managers"
This I have never done.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 17:37, closed)