Manchester, Where?

[RasputinDude]

Just had an e-mail from a pimp offering a role in Manchester, Staffordshire.

FFS...

Epic fail X4 group.

(disclaimer: I am tired; I may be a little tetchy and irascible and little things are likely set me off. But still, FFS. "Cretins" as one esteemed member would say.)

[Mephisto]

Connect44 (new(?) outfit, all bob sounding) advertised a role in Read, Lancashire once which is a tiny little village near where I live.

Needless to say I was all over it like a rash yet couldn't place where a PMO role would exist in a place where 'infrastructure' is a Post Office, Mechanics and Spar.

Found out it was READING FourFootsSake

[northernladuk]

I got binned while sitting in the car park before I had even walked in for the interview due to a location failure like this, not quite as epic though to be fair.

Applied to two roles, totally different worded specs. One was an SI manager for bank in Manchester, the other was for a financial client in Cheshire. Turns out it was the bank in Cheshire. Got call for interview by second pimp while sitting in car park waiting to go in for interview from first pimp. Flurry of calls later had two furious pimps shouting at me because the client had enough of them calling him insisting they had first dibs and had binned me. Morons.

[tranceporter]

Happened to me as well. Bought a £86 train ticket, boarded the train, and then pimp called "I know this is frustrating, but the client has just moved the goalpost" ..

[petergriffin]

Just had an e-mail from a pimp offering a role in Manchester, Staffordshire.

They are in the process of renaming Birmingham International Airport "London, Birmingham" (seriously), so this is perfectly acceptable, unfortunately.

Not to mention lots of "Birmingham, Greater London" on Technoyobs.

[RasputinDude]

They are in the process of renaming Birmingham International Airport "London, Birmingham" (seriously), so this is perfectly acceptable, unfortunately.

I'm struggling to find evidence of that in any credible news source. Maybe you can help me.

[amcdonald]

I had a .Net role offered in London, they didn't mention the client site was actually in Glasgow where you'd be expected to be onsite

In fact current contract, I'd be at the client before but a new contract came through with a new client site listed in a different location.

The agent couldn't confirm where I was working, so having phones the client they told me it's the same old site and that the agents were muppets. A bit awkward when you need to book a hotel in advance....

[portseven]

it may not be as wrong as you think it looks like the coop bank who have offices in Manchester and Leek Staffordshire due to the merger with britania

[CoolCat]

They are in the process of renaming Birmingham International Airport "London, Birmingham" (seriously), so this is perfectly acceptable, unfortunately.

Not to mention lots of "Birmingham, Greater London" on Technoyobs.

The Radio stations in Chicago give prizes of tickets to "Reading Rock festival in London" that always made me laugh etc.

[stek]

it may not be as wrong as you think it looks like the coop bank who have offices in Manchester and Leek Staffordshire due to the merger with britania

And Skem.

What a shiiitehole that place is....