The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Sorry about going quiet over the weekend people, but a buggerload of promising jobs appeared on Friday & I wanted to get through applying to the lot of them. On top of that, a former employer whom I left on bad terms some years ago got back in touch as they still had my details & "are you interested in a job we have coming up?" I did a phone interview with them (where to be honest I wasn't exactly Mr Friendly) & much to my surprise am through to the second (face-to-face, or in my book, the REAL interview) tomorrow morning.

Did some checking up on what's happening there, & it seems a previous chicken I'd warned them about has come home to roost. They were employing far too many students living in digs in my book (most of whom were malingering groovy funkers who spent more times looking for ways to skive or doing their college work than doing the jobs they were paid to do) in order to keep wages low (ie. they'd be in for one to three years at most, often part-time, so any pay rises would be next to non-existent in terms of cost).

All too often the work wasn't getting done & the regulars were having to pick up the slack. All too often as well, the students being employed were "eye candy" for lecherous saddos in middle management (male & female), the students knew it, & swung the lead accordingly.

However, there's been that many dropouts from the local unis already this year they're losing these people faster than they can replace them, so before having to spend money on recruitment they're scrabbling through their database giving it "hello old pal!" to ex-employees like me they pissed off enough to cause to go elsewhere.

Quite aside from this being well over 5 years ago & they shouldn't have that data readily to hand anyway (Should they? Caspin, you're the IT expert here - is what they did getting back in touch with me using old employment records for recruitment legit?), I'm wary about going back if offered to what turned out to be a shower of real s**ts.

On the other hand, I'm fed up with living off dole & savings to the point of insanity, AND the job is in a different department to the one I was in (something which makes me suspect that it smacks of "you were right & you were a good employee, but we're not going to admit we f**ked up!"). So if offered, I'll take it with gritted teeth. That's two more long running shops locally now closing down, along with one of the banks shutting a branch. Things aren't getting anywhere near better, this could be as near as it gets to a lucky break for a long while yet.