The first thing my first boss said to me

[suityou01]

The arrogance to think anyone would read paragraphs of drivel

Dude, you posted that in General. Better luck next time.

[FatLazyContractor]

TL;DR

[NotAllThere]

It is often the case. I never understood why HR get involved in hiring contractors. This should be down to the purchasing department....

Twaddle. It should be down to the hiring manager with the budget. Once purchasing get involved, with their bonuses driven by %age discounts they can get, no-one benefits.

[TykeMerc]

I had an interview last week. Well a telephone one. It seemed I passed muster and was invited for a F2F the following day. 5pm, London.

I arrived on time, suited and booted. They were late.

Then I was taken into a meeting room, largeish with a large lozenge shaped table. 3 people sat opposite. No introductions. A thimble sized plastic beaker of tepid water was placed in front of me.

The bloke in the middle seemed to be doing the interviewing. The other 2 just stated at me coldly.

"So, take me through your CV" he said. "But make it quick as we want to be out of here before 6 as there's a tube strike"

"All of it?" I asked?

"Yes, from the beginning".

So I started giving a brief explanation of each role, from 1997 onwards. We got as far as 2003 and he said "Move on!".

"Where too?" I asked.

He bristled.

"So far we are going through the roles I did 18 years ago, and this could take some time to get through".

He was really really rude, and his interviewing style made no sense to me. If you are hiring for a C# guy, what does it matter what projects he did with VB6 18 years ago? Fair enough you might want to get the measure of how someone has grown over that time, to try and get inside their head a little, but for a contract gig it is normally the past 2-5 years, techy test, bit of a grilling, some scenario based questions and interview over.

This was just weird. And rude. What I am thinking is that when we got into the first 5 minutes of the interview, and he was stating his case he needed to leave early, and talking to me like a piece of tulipe I should have politely made my excuses and left.

Instead I sat there, again just trying to do my best in a bad situation, getting crapped on. Then I left. Then I rang the agency and pulled my CV.

So these guys must be super intuitive to develop such a loathing in such a short space of time, and I did this all to myself, right?

What a nasty person you seem to be

Hmm where have we seen that posted before? I'll have to see if I can remember which of the multiple banned sockies have posted that, it's at least a couple of them. Of course it begs the question why you're posing as one of the EBT lot with this particular fake ID?

[AtW]

Hmm where have we seen that posted before? I'll have to see if I can remember which of the multiple banned sockies have posted that, it's at least a couple of them. Of course it begs the question why you're posing as one of the EBT lot with this particular fake ID?

Because I can?

[suityou01]

Hmm where have we seen that posted before? I'll have to see if I can remember which of the multiple banned sockies have posted that, it's at least a couple of them. Of course it begs the question why you're posing as one of the EBT lot with this particular fake ID?

With this many accessible buttons to push, and you showing us where to push, I don't think this is healthy.

Take a chill pill. Stop obsessing about sockies. Peace.

[shaunbhoy]

Also you seem to have missed the bit where he was rude, boorish, hostile and down right obnoxious. Even introductions were not given.

Okay everybody, just who on CUK was it that conducted this interview?

My money is on it being MF.

Suity, did the Interviewer look like he had eaten a horse, and was a walking advert for the worst excesses of Spandex?

[MarillionFan]

Okay everybody, just who on CUK was it that conducted this interview?

My money is on it being MF.

Suity, did the Interviewer look like he had eaten a horse, and was a walking advert for the worst excesses of Spandex?

I've interviewed Suity once before and with the exception of appearing to be a complete Diva, he actually comes across as a Prima Donna.

[eek]

Okay everybody, just who on CUK was it that conducted this interview?

My money is on it being MF.

Suity, did the Interviewer look like he had eaten a horse, and was a walking advert for the worst excesses of Spandex?

I do wonder if Suity got the day right and because the receptionist didn't want to deal with a she just grabbed 3 people from somewhere to conduct an "interview"..

[shaunbhoy]

I've interviewed Suity once before and with the exception of appearing to be a complete Diva, he actually comes across as a Prima Donna.

Yeeeurgghh!! Who'd attend an interview wearing a Tottenham top?