Have I ever asked you to disclose personal details about your life? I don't because it is none of my business.
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Have I ever asked you to disclose personal details about your life? I don't because it is none of my business.
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I remember a time when you were very fond of Craig.
I like him just fine. I think he tries to portray a persona on here that is not really him. Only two people on here annoy me and they are on ignore.
Edit: His personal life not being my business has nothing to do with liking or not liking him.
My attitude. oh.
You know why I don't want the job? Because they dismissed me for such stupid reasons. I didn't know they were going to do that.
I'm not gonna cry because I didn't get some job. When a company pulls these kinds of silly shenanigans, I don't need them.
Some companies act like this but they don't come with warning labels.
And I had enough with the recruiter. I gave him many chances, this is not the first time he has acted unprofessionally and stupidly. It was the last straw.
My reputation in my field is not determined by one company that never saw me face to face and a recruiter.
Recruiters are idiots. They know nothing about my field. All they want is me to get a job that they placed me at so they can make a lot of dough off of my work. When they read my resume, they have no idea what it is about.
Many times they call me and ask me the silliest questions that make me say "can you freaken read?"
I mean, recently, a recruiter called me and asked me to send me my resume. I did. He then wrote back to me and said "You need to tailor your resume for C#. It looks like most of your experience is with VB. Please adjust your resume and send it back"
I about died laughing. All of my past 5 years of experience was with C#. I had not done VB in at least 5 years, and then only minimally. I don't know what he was looking at.
So I sent him my same resume again with no changes and told him that I had done what he asked and he responded with "Much Better"
I mean, how am I supposed to take anyone seriously after that?
I suppose I could explain to you how interviewing works in my field, but it would take too long. Just trust me when I tell you that I know what I am doing. 15 years of experience....get it?
honestly, I write what I write, and I'm not trying to be something.
I really think you misunderstood most of what I wrote in this thread, and you made a lot of assumptions that were just not even close.
I made assumptions on what you provided. I never pumped you for more. The details you gave showed you as unprofessional. If that is not the way it was then why did you not tell it the way it was. No matter. I am comfortable with my posts.
Actually, I should say that it wasn't the company that dismissed me, it was the chick who interviewed me. She is the only one who talked to me and she made the decision.
HR people...it's their job to disqualify candidates. Have you ever spent time around HR people? I have, and just about everytime, they are morons who want to do as little as possible in their jobs. THey also love to disqualify candidates.
and she was being a woman (ok, this will get me some hate, but oh well)
Trust me, this happens a lot in my field. My field is male-dominated. Women in it tend to feel intimidated. So when a woman gets in a position of some power or influence, they tend to overdo it. I understand somewhat where they are coming from...but I think they don't need to overreact as much as they do.
I've had woman managers and they want to show that they can be tough and prove to everyone that they can do it. They over-manage and they just don't need to.
Now this woman that interviewed me...she showed some great woman logic.
Like a girlfriend who says "Tell me about your dating history" So you do, and what happens? She gets mad at you for talking about your past gf's. You say "But you asked me!" Doesn't matter. She got jealous and you are just screwed.
So this lady asks me a bunch of questions about my past experieinces with co-workers and managers. All of her questions were about that. I gave good answers, but she says "He talks about conflict too much. That's negative"
Ok. If you didn't want me to talk about conflicts, then don't ask.
HR people...it's their job to disqualify candidates. Have you ever spent time around HR people? I have, and just about everytime, they are morons who want to do as little as possible in their jobs. THey also love to disqualify candidates.
and she was being a woman (ok, this will get me some hate, but oh well)
Trust me, this happens a lot in my field. My field is male-dominated. Women in it tend to feel intimidated. So when a woman gets in a position of some power or influence, they tend to overdo it. I understand somewhat where they are coming from...but I think they don't need to overreact as much as they do.
I've had woman managers and they want to show that they can be tough and prove to everyone that they can do it. They over-manage and they just don't need to.
Now this woman that interviewed me...she showed some great woman logic.
Like a girlfriend who says "Tell me about your dating history" So you do, and what happens? She gets mad at you for talking about your past gf's. You say "But you asked me!" Doesn't matter. She got jealous and you are just screwed.
So this lady asks me a bunch of questions about my past experieinces with co-workers and managers. All of her questions were about that. I gave good answers, but she says "He talks about conflict too much. That's negative"
Ok. If you didn't want me to talk about conflicts, then don't ask.
uh, you changed your tune when you realized the whole story about the car interview.
Trust me dude, I know what I am doing. All of your assumptions were off.
Have you ever tried to get a software engineering job? I have.
You sound like the teacher of that employment class I took a few years ago. I didnt want to bother with it, but I went because a bunch of friends told me how helpful it would be. Well it was all so useless. A complete waste of time. It was probably good for people with no experience in looking for a job. But for a seasoned vet like me, it was like going back to high school.
It was silly. She had nothing to offer me. She knew nothing about my field. It was a waste of time.
And guess what, I got a great job soon after, and I did not use any of the techniques that she taught.
I went in to that company and told them what they needed to do to solve their problem and how I would do it. They said I was by far the best candidate that they had. Then I had to interview with the company president, who is extremely intelligent and loves to grill new people, so much that they warned me about it, and said it would be tough and that many good candidates can't handle it and don't get hired because of it.
I went in there and aced it. I actually had a great time with the guy.
They hired me and I did so well, they told me I was the best consultant they ever had, and now they are trying to think of a position for me so they can have me back.
I just wanted to quote this for the lulz.
Oh I know it happens. Just Craig is playing off that they didn't want him and his unprofessionalism in his interview as ok because he did not want to work for them. I call BS on that.