Things you hate IV

I'll die on that hill with you.

 

That is why I love the cute little buggers.

 

I’d still take a cat over a ‘toy’ dog to be fair.

 

I'm currently unemployed. Is it so ******* hard to send rejection emails? When you get to the second stage after opening £20+ getting to the interviews, is it so hard to tell you why you didn't get the job?

 

You have my sympathy, but don’t be afraid to ask for feedback.

 

Oddly enough, since the 3 giant hairy beasts the other day, we've yet to see another one.

Perhaps word of Horace the Spider Slayer has got out among the resident 8 legged contingent of my new and very overgrown garden.

 

Funnily enough this reminds me of something I read last year but in reverse - link below.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/people-ghosting-work-its-driving-companies-crazy-chip-cutter/

Quite interesting little read.

 

This is also one of my pet hates. Even after falling at stage 1, there should be a follow up email with some sort of explanation.

After an interview, it really is a ****ing disgrace not to send an email at least, and fairly quickly. It is sometimes difficult to give personalised feedback honestly and in a worthwhile manner that is constructive as it certainly shouldn't be any more de-motivating than it needs to be - but an email should be sent nonetheless. It is polite, and demonstrates at least some empathy for the applicant waiting at the other end.

 

People cashing and buying lottery tickets at peak times in newsagents. Pre-match and during rush hour.

 

Hearing a 'recruitment professional' (sic.) complaining about the difficulties of their 'job' (sic.) brings me to the verge of weeping...I'm so upset I can't type any more...

 

Groups of 'girls' on a train, drinking fizz and laughing in a shrill OTT manner at the smallest bit of mirth, at 10am.

Groups of 'lads' on a train, drinking lager and laughing in deep OTT manner at the smallest bit of mirth, at 10am.

Sitting near midly racist baby boomers when on holiday.

Baby boomers

Forced team training about mental health issues that is run by Trish form HR how has done a 3 hour course on mental health.

Forced team training.

People in higher management roles who act like they are famous.

Female office works who stomp down open planned offices holding an A4 pad of paper

IBM contractors walking and using a laptop.

Football fans from the 'top six clubs' who are 'amazed' that I go and watch football as I'm not a 'banter' bloke.

Football fans from the 'top six clubs' who are 'amazed' that I'm not that pissed off when Watford lose.

Football fans.

Other people having a normal conversation when they are near me.

..just other people.

 

Nothing to disagree with here. All approved.

 

Yep. Surely you only ever interview a maximum of 6/7 people in the initial phase, how hard is it to send an email to 3/4 of them? One particular company just kept ignoring my emails after I got to the second stage. The feedback i've had so far is just 'really liked you, but another candidate was better suited to the role', which is also frustrating. I'd rather get constructive feedback, even if it is a bit harsh.

 

I take your first point, but I think if a company replies and gives, even bland feedback, they've done their bit. It would be nice for them to give a more constructive feedback, but you have to remember that not everyone is as thick skinned as you. Some people might take issue and end up starting an ongoing war with constructive feedback they disagree with.

I think if they say "another candidate was better suited," you're entitled to ask for more detail, but they are not obliged under any social convention to give it.

I think that the obligation is to reply to you and tell you that they have chosen not to proceed and give a courteous reason. The fact that so many fall short of even this, is a measure of just how rude some people are.

Having said that, if a company treats you like that, it's probably not where you want to work.

I have walked out of interviews before because the interviewer has been rude, abrasive, arrogant and treated me poorly. I interviewed for a firm in Canary Wharf once and the directors interviewing me were over half an hour late, leaving me unattended in a stifling room. They waltzed in without an apology, each nursing a drink, without offering me one. The MD then started picking through my CV, my successes and saying that it was easy to do what I'd done and asking how I would be successful in his business. Eventually I just snapped and said I wouldn't and walked out. ****s went bust 2 years later, but took down lots of other businesses by running up unpaid debts in the process.

 

I once went for an interview and was also left sitting for 30 minutes. American bloke walked in, looked at his phone and said “oh f*ck” and left again! I let myself out.

 

Ha, could be a separate thread but I bet other posters have some stories...

Best one i've had was a couple of weeks ago. The guy looked at my C.V and then realised he was friends with my old boss. First question was do you know her, second one was what would she say about you? He then said 'i"ll give her a call after this'. He then proceeded to ask me what had gone wrong with Watford's season, what my favourite away day was and all sorts of questions about football, sport etc. Got offered a second interview, so she was obviously nice about me!

 

It soul destroying but try to not let it get to you. Keep on going.

It could be worse you could get, at the end of the interview:
"...to find out if you've got the job call me back after 4pm..."
Or better still:
"...you very nearly got the job - it just wasn't your lucky day..." (I put the phone down).
The second one I'm pretty cool about as the other 'lucky' candidate managed to destroy a focussed ion-beam workstation (the other side of £100K) and a state of the art C60 secondary ion mass spectrometer (other side of £300K) in the three weeks before she pissed off back to Romania. The position was re-advertised and I called to see whether my application would be reviewed (and I was also thinking about giving the **** of a professor a piece of my mind or just laughing at the motherf**ker) - whereupon once I told him who I was started screaming "You were the one who was very rude to me on the telephone..." I thought it best to repeat my previous crime.

 

Not very British. Apparently we love queuing!

 

Football

 

I recruit and am currently applying for jobs. The worst for me is the automatic indeed reply template. I know when the organisation hiring just click the no thanks send email button. I've applied for a job on sunday night, and got that message back 8.25am on Monday morning!

Ive been trying to recruit since Jan into a role, I'm looking for a semi-skilled worker with the right attitude, yet its minimum wage and PT contract. The job requires the candidate to be qualified with a qualification that takes a year to achieve. I know the job isnt immedieately attractive but the pay is pretty much industry standard and there are additional work at a higher rate available if they work on it. Theres also commision available. It would suit someone leaving uni or a-levels who have an interest in the industry and have got themselves qualified.

Jan, appointed - lasted 6 weeks before failing probation for theft. He was oterwise excellent at the job but therr was a red flag in my head.

Mar appointed. 2 of 6 turned up for interview - the one I appointed didnt show up on day one. A full timer has left so im now looking for 3 people.

April - appointed 3, one has left for a promotion in our orgainsation. One spent his training shifts taking selfies, moaning about the rate of pay and went awol after 4 weeks. He would have failed his probation. One is still working.

June - get the same people applying that didnt attend interview 2 months ago. 1 person accepts job, calls up days before starting - got another job offer sorry.

July - appointed someone who so far seems ok. But still recruiting for the last one who was promoted. I'm using some school leavers on a casual basis for now.

 

Look, Fillipo, we get it. You're trying hard to find us defenders and it's a tough world. I'm not sure Dawson 'seems ok' though.

 

Is this turning up for work (on a zero hours contract), not being given any 'work' but as your're their you given the 'option' of doing some training (unpaid)?

 

No. 24 hours contract (3 days a week). Onboarding.

 

Not if we are at the back.

 

You sound like you would benefit from searching for Coyote Peterson over on YouTube

 

Legend. My 6 year old would trample over my dying body to see him get attacked by a dangerous bug.

 

He’s perhaps the only YouTuber who deserves every single view he’s had

 

*there. Don't @ me.

 

People being generous with other people's money.

Some examples : -
someone leaves your office, but you never really liked them. Their best mate in the office suggests some sort of leaving gift which requires a minimum £5 or £10 donation from everyone.

We are clamping with a large group of other families, one of whom booked two pods, because they have more kids. Now the wife can't make it, but there will still be 2 kids in the "other." pod. One of the other mums takes it upon herself to demand that we all, as a group, chip in to pay for that pod to not leave the family out of pocket. Even though that means that I am out of pocket myself, for a pod I have no use for.

There is more detail to this that I won't go into but it pisses me off, especially as right now we've had a run of outgoings and money is super tight. We're sitting budgeting our own treats and so on and now someone just helps themselves to some our money so I can bale out an oil trader who booked an extra pod for his teenage children.

 

TFL - If you have a signal failure, that can be considered bad luck. If you have 3 in one week on the same line, that's just a fundamental failure of the infrastructure.

If you're going to have an aggressive chav on each platform with a microphone during such debacles, at least furnish them with some useful information about expected wait times, likelyhood of a train appearing or not and some alternatives, other than getting them to repeat unmeasurable phrases such as "there are currently severe delays on this line due to an incident." What does that mean? Does that mean wait it out, or walk 2o minutes to another station and take a circuitous route home?

 

Is he the guy who gets stung by stuff on video ? If so, yes i watched the tarantula wasp sting effect...and sweated a little....

 

I would politely tell them to **** off. But then again I wouldn't go glamping with a group of families. Then again i wouldn't go glamping.

 

You misread. I'm going "clamping."

We are all parking wardens.

 

Don't take it out on me that your weekend swinging 'clamping' debauchery has gone **** up.