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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostYeeeurgghh!! Who'd attend an interview wearing a Tottenham top?
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostOkay 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?
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Originally posted by shaunbhoy View PostOkay 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?
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostAlso you seem to have missed the bit where he was rude, boorish, hostile and down right obnoxious. Even introductions were not given.
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?
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View Post
Take a chill pill. Stop obsessing about sockies. Peace.
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Originally posted by TykeMerc View PostHmm 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?
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostI 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?
Originally posted by MercladUK View PostWhat a nasty person you seem to beLast edited by TykeMerc; 17 July 2015, 18:09.
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Originally posted by suityou01 View PostIt is often the case. I never understood why HR get involved in hiring contractors. This should be down to the purchasing department....
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