Know what I hate??

Pee-Wee · Post by **Pee-Wee** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:21 pm

Here's the scene:

I've been looking for a job for a LONG while now. Early this morning, I get woke up by the phone....

-Hello?
-Kyle?
-Yes?
-I have a copy of your resume here, and I wanted to talk to you and go over your experience
-Great!
-I'm looking over this, and I see a vast amount of experience, what technical certifications do you have?
-Well, at the moment, I really only have a CNA, but my main experience is with MS products.
-Do you plan on getting any other certifications?
-Oh yes, I'm big into keeping up with training.
-Well, I'm with New Horiz...(I cut him off)
-ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR (expletive deleted) MIND?!?! I'm looking for a job, I don't have TIME for this. Just stop bothering me! (He cuts me off)
-WELL, how much response have you recieved...(I cut him off again)
-LOOK! You KNOW the market sucks right now, don't give me that smug attitude. The only reason you ARE calling me is because it's so bad. You people are having a time with it right now just as I am.

I can understand you needing to keep your business running, it's just the way you operate that pisses me off. You post "Job Openings" that don't exist, strictly to bring in unsuspecting people, you sign up for Monster... (I cut myself off)

Oh (expletive deleted) IT!

I hang up.

New Horizons is a national training company. Since the job market is in the toilet, they are trying to take advantage of the situation and fill their pockets. I actually use to send people to this place for training. Never again.

I know the guy was trying to do his "job", but don't come at me with the pretext of having a job for me. I put that up there with people trying to sell Time Shares by offering free trips that don't exist, just for going to their seminars.

Grrrrr

Neue Regel · Post by **Neue Regel** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 9:32 pm

oh, and like you have the money while you are not working to afford a class anyway.

I hate that kinda crap too. I got four calls last year from the same guy asking me to become a salesman for him selling some new junk he had. The messages he left sounded real good to me at first, especially when you are not working. After the second time, I told him to stop calling me, he still left 2 more messages over the next 3 months. They see your info on the Internet and you are fare game to them.

I hate recruiters worse though.

My reinactment:

Hi Rob!
Hi
Are you currently looking for work?
Yes I am
Well i was looking at your resume and I think you would be perfect for this job!
What is the type of work, is it permanant or contract/
it is a contract for a C++ developer
And you said you read my resume and I am perfect for this, aye? I am not a developer, nor does it say anywhere in my resume that I ever was nor does it say that I have ever coded with C++ or any other language.

CLICK

DL · Post by DL » Thu Jun 12, 2003 10:51 pm

Qaz got approached by these types of sharks while searching for work last year....one company even wanted 5000 bucks to market his resume for a guarenteed time of 3 years.....

....like we had 5000 bucks for that crap with Qaz unemployed.

Market his resume?....what the h*$# is that supposed to mean?...lol

Now that the t-com industry has went belly up the sharks are out in full force and the millions of unemployed due to the shut downs only encourages these companies to try harder to leech from these now desperate people trying to get another job in their field of choice paying somewhat remotely near what they once upon a time earned.

Pee-Wee · Post by **Pee-Wee** » Thu Jun 12, 2003 11:36 pm

Another "pet peeve" I now have is the fact that people have NO idea of the correct titles for positions, and the fact that they seem to change the defenitions every other day.

It's at the point where I HAVE to search the WRONG job titles because I know, for the most part, they WILL include the right ones.

A Systems Analyst is NOT an Network Administrator.
A Network Engineer is NOT a Help Desk Administrator
I could go on...

DL · Post by DL » Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:36 am

LOL @ PeeWee

Those new titles are so they can pay a whole lot less for the same job that used to pay double in some cases triple.

I now work in Customer Service for a huge national company....my headset AKA: rabbit ears drive me nuts. Not only does it mess my hair up....but it forces me to listen to some of the most stupid people ever born in this world.

The worse are the ones who start the call by saying " The way I got it figured....."....that's the problem...it's how they are trying to figure....arghhhh....some of them are figuring so hard it makes me laugh at how stupid they sound....I use my mute button on my phone a LOT!!....lol

Then.........you got the ones who insist on EATING while they talk....if only they knew how disgusting they sound smacking and chomping through the phone while trying to sound like they know what they are talking about. eeewwwwwwww

Flanker · Post by **Flanker** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 7:33 am

PW

Our company is currently looking to fill a few positions.

After reviewing your resume, we have come to the conclusion that you are under-qualified for the Sanitation Engineer, in charge of the 3rd floor mop.

I tried putting in a good word for you, but, well, you know the corporate type folk, they want someone with 8 weeks of mop swinging, not the 7 weeks you have on your resume

Cheers

Phred · Post by **Phred** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 10:11 am

here is an online comic thats been going since 1997 thaty you and your co-workers woule really appreciate DL...and everyoen else who has ever done anything with tech would love it too

http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?i ... de=classic

Pee-Wee · Post by **Pee-Wee** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:19 pm

Well, it happened again. But, this time with a twist. The same thing as DL talked about.

I spend 15 minutes on the phone before the guy tells me that they are just "Job Hunting Trainers".

This didn't really bother me as much as the New Horizons thing, but, I must admit, I laughed quite loudly at him, when he said it was a "Flat $3,000 fee".

I told him, over belly laughs, if he could garantee me a position, I would go sell my body $10 dollars a trick to make up the money. Then, I hung up on him.

It's always fun to start the day with a laugh.

DL · Post by DL » Fri Jun 13, 2003 11:54 pm

Thanks for the website...I'm gonna have some real good laughs...might even share some of my own experiences...Customer Service is a real funny business....well...most of the time....we do get psychotic cases....there is no hope for those ones...lmao

My favorite NUT case was a lady who ranted and raved....accused me of not answering her questions when she would not shut up long enough to let me say a word..I swear she never stopped to breeathe...lmao...and when I finally offered to transfer her to my supervisor since I was unable to assist her because she refuse to let me talk....her response was.: "Oh, I really don't want to waste your supervisors time!".....I banged my head on my desk....DOH!....but she didn't mind wasting 59 minutes of mine....hahahahaa

Lagmatic · Post by **Lagmatic** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 12:37 am

I've had people hit me up with these before. ALWAYS contact Monster or the job board in question and report the scam.

YenMei · Post by **YenMei** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 4:05 pm

Customer Service: Used to work the phone lines for maintenance department in low/zero income housing association - i.e. no budget for repairs. Favourite call remains the guy that wanted to know when I (yes, me specifically) was going to pull my finger out and get round to his house to fix his dripping tap (faucet)... I think he's still waiting.

Phade · Post by **Phade** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 7:11 pm

lol you should have said 'Thats not my finger' and hung up

leave him guessing

Pee-Wee · Post by **Pee-Wee** » Sat Jun 14, 2003 10:15 pm

Nooooo you just get a Norman Bates tone of voice going and say..

"What was your house number again? Yes... just leave the back door unlocked.... I'll be over to fix it later tonight...."

Then... breath real heavy like Tweety when he drank that stuff in Dr. Jekyll's laboratory.

DANGIT! I hate Geocities. I can't believe they won't let ya remote link to a pic, yet they will spam/pop up all day long.