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Previously on "Ways in which to rub sockpuppet up the wrong way...."
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Originally posted by SandyDownThose are normal checks from most investment banks - however they usually ask for references from the last five years not 12, strange they asked you for 12.
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Originally posted by SandyDownThose are normal checks from most investment banks - however they usually ask for references from the last five years not 12, strange they asked you for 12.
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Originally posted by ClipheadRecently went through 2 interviews and was offered the contract, the client then wanted references for every contract in the last 12 years - not possible. Some of the managers who hired me were contractors themselves and have long since moved on, some of the companies don't exist (not my fault).
Not to mention proving where I've lived over the past 12 years via the electoral register - I've mostly worked abroad, lived in hotels, had short term leases.
They also wanted to do a credit check FFS. The disclosure procedure (successfully completed last year), doesn't go into such detail. I was also positively vetted years ago when I worked for the MoD, a six month process but that wasn't good enough either.
Cliphead's response - shove yer contract up yer arse.
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Agree. I'd have a right go at the agent and say something about his mother.
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Recently went through 2 interviews and was offered the contract, the client then wanted references for every contract in the last 12 years - not possible. Some of the managers who hired me were contractors themselves and have long since moved on, some of the companies don't exist (not my fault).
Not to mention proving where I've lived over the past 12 years via the electoral register - I've mostly worked abroad, lived in hotels, had short term leases.
They also wanted to do a credit check FFS. The disclosure procedure (successfully completed last year), doesn't go into such detail. I was also positively vetted years ago when I worked for the MoD, a six month process but that wasn't good enough either.
Cliphead's response - shove yer contract up yer arse.
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As you can tell I'm a little fecked off, I know...hard skinned contractor and all that but I dont do stupid people and this guy was a peach.[/QUOTE]
If its any consolation I think I'd be pretty miffed as well. Did you manage to stay till the end of the interview? I'm just beginning to look for a new contract and I'm not looking forward to this kind of thing happening to me. I know it will though
Sally Anne is right; give the useless barsteward pimp a bollocking and some seriously pointless leads - I'm thinking along the lines of (old joke) the phone number for Whipsnade Zoo asking for a Ms C Lyonne, although I'm sure you can be more creative than that
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I feel better for having vented. Just really miffs me as it was 2 hours I could have spent here post whoring
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Originally posted by Sockpuppet* Arrive late for the interview (that is the interviewer being late) - [Sockpuppet was not impressed]
* Leave me in an office suite with piant peeling off the walls - [Real great impression there]
* Completley disregard my CV - ask questions like "That last job seems quite good - why did you leave" -[Sockpuppet asks if you understand the nature of interim work...and the wording "THIS WAS A FIXED TERM CONTRACT" on my CV]
* Spend 10 minutes telling me I'm young for a interim - [Gee no tulip sherlock]
* Spend another 5 minutes telling me that "interims" are mostly social misfits - [oh..he has a point]
* Tell me that the rate is 44% below what I was expecting as a minimum - casually drop in 2am starts - [fesking agents]
* Say that they will not take me on unless I am an employee - no Ltds allowed - [Er...wtf? Is there any reason for this to happen]
As you can tell I'm a little fecked off, I know...hard skinned contractor and all that but I dont do stupid people and this guy was a peach.
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Ways in which to rub sockpuppet up the wrong way....
* Arrive late for the interview (that is the interviewer being late) - [Sockpuppet was not impressed]
* Leave me in an office suite with piant peeling off the walls - [Real great impression there]
* Completley disregard my CV - ask questions like "That last job seems quite good - why did you leave" -[Sockpuppet asks if you understand the nature of interim work...and the wording "THIS WAS A FIXED TERM CONTRACT" on my CV]
* Spend 10 minutes telling me I'm young for a interim - [Gee no tulip sherlock]
* Spend another 5 minutes telling me that "interims" are mostly social misfits - [oh..he has a point]
* Tell me that the rate is 44% below what I was expecting as a minimum - casually drop in 2am starts - [fesking agents]
* Say that they will not take me on unless I am an employee - no Ltds allowed - [Er...wtf? Is there any reason for this to happen]
As you can tell I'm a little fecked off, I know...hard skinned contractor and all that but I dont do stupid people and this guy was a peach.Last edited by Sockpuppet; 10 January 2007, 17:46.Tags: None
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