• Bryan (unregistered) in reply to Global Warmer
    Global Warmer:
    And I really can't believe the manager would just up and quit his job and then call some random person he doesn't really even know and tell him.

    Did you miss the part of the story where it said the manager was going to call him the next day to follow up about the interview? How is it so unbelievable that the manager took to heart what the interviewee said, and felt like letting him know as part of the follow up phone call?

  • Mr. Shiny & New (unregistered)

    The real wtf is that 2003-2005 encompasses 3 years, not two :)

  • Stressed (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Your resume just caught on fire. WHAT DO YOU DO?!?!?
    Dump a glass of drinking water onto it.
  • Mark (unregistered) in reply to Zagyg

    Not embellished at all, which is why I submitted it. I have never since had that impact in an interview, but then again it was when I was younger and really didn't care if I got a specific job or not. Sometimes really having nothing to lose results in some interesting outcomes.

  • Peets (unregistered)

    Re. HR sometimes being a waste of space..

    A while ago I worked for a consultancy, and we had just set up a new company. Part of my job was to recruit my replacement for when the company went operational.

    We had a fairly low quality of CV responses for the ad, and on day 1 there wasn't a single usable CV amongst what came in. The next day the office people had moved us (as planned), and it so happened I inherited a desk from HR.

    In it were a few CVs for the advertised job with "NO" scrawled over them. Being curious is a job trait, so I read them. 30 minutes later I had meetings set up between one of the candidates and the CEO (carefully leaving HR out of the loop) for the very same day - the guy was a find and as far as I know he's still working there..

    As a general remark, I have worked for a company that used HR mainly to find creative ways to lose people without paying them redundancy money. Their main job was to find spurious issues with performance so staff could be ejected on the cheap. The fun bit was that most of the people they ejected were the bright ones (the "eject" orders were given due to politics, not ability or even revenue generation), and soon set up in competition.. One very clever one, however, played them for all it was worth and they ended up with so much trouble that via settling out of court he got more than double the money it would have costed them to make him redundant. I was glad to leave that joint.

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to Bob
    Bob:
    Your resume just caught on fire. WHAT DO YOU DO?!?!?

    Throw water on it.

    All the water in the world has boiled away due to global warming. What do you do?

  • Jay (unregistered)

    Here we go again, with the "this story must be a lie because the events it describes don't happen to me every day".

    May I point out the obvious: Only unusual and amusing stories get posted, because nobody wants to read stories about things that happen every day to all of us. Would you visit a web site filled with stories that read: "I went to an interview and they asked me some questions about my technical skills and told me a little about the company. Several questions were difficult but I managed to give correct answers. Then they offered me the job and it sounded like a good opportunity so I said yes." Yeah, that would be a great read.

    I suppose you also don't believe that George Bush is president because, hey, nobody I know ever got elected president. And surely no one has ever really traveled to the moon, because that would be incredibly difficult and expensive, and I know that none of my friends have ever managed to do that.

    If the chance of something happening is one in a million, then it's unlikely that it ever happened to you. But with 6 billion people in the world, it's probably happened to thousands of them.

    That's not to say that an unlikely story is true, of course. But the fact that a story is unlikely is a long way from proving it's impossible.

  • rosko (unregistered)

    So, Mark: what did they make? My wife is threatening to hunt you down if you don't tell us :-)

    Also, on things said in interviews, I was once advised by the PA of the guy who hired me that I got the job because I said the magic word in the interview. What magic word? "Beer". I spent a week trying to remember what possessed me to say "beer" in a job interview...

  • Duke (unregistered) in reply to Mark

    Entirely plausible to me... http://tinyurl.com/58wsxd

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