When I was on placement, it was Monday through Friday, and I was working in a bar Saturday and Sunday (see my incredible maroon room mental breakdown)

I became king of napping in the keg room because no one checked it

Similar, the senior management in head office decided they wanted to hire either a junior, or a senior coordinator, or some kind of VR/AR tech. 

None of these roles are similar so what the fuck are they doing looking for one out of the three and the best part is because head office is in the middle of buttfuck nowhere they can't get applicants, particularly the VR tech so they're interviewing them in London, except the two guys they would work for are up near brum and the dumdums decided not to check with me if we have the desk space or spare machines in our office so if they do hire some new person for the office they have nowhere to sit and nothing to work on. 

They truly are the kings of not letting me into their shitty little management clique well fuck them cos we have our own in office dank memes, our own ad-hoc badass employee of the month meaningless joke award with shitty trophy and we all dress better than them and don't talk shit about each other as soon as anyone's back is turned and we also have our own branded mugs, oh and we have a fucking tassimo for some reason, bitchass head office wankers.

Who's gonna service it?

During trimester I nap furiously, no choice really

Poppo is as Poppo does.

poprock wrote:

We’ve been on a hiring spree lately but our directors are incapable of making a plan and sticking to it, so after advertising for a senior designer and an experienced account manager, we have internally promoted an account manager to studio manager and hired one junior designer, one ex-newspaper photo editor, and one account manager with an advertising instead of design background. Oh, and seven interns, the first of which turned up today.

Sounds like cheap, hope it goes well

But hey, the schools firm said they want to speak to me, already had a decent connection with the hiring bloke, an old friend has worked there for years and invited me to apply for lesser roles in the past. Just intrigued as to how the face to face goes, but I generally do better in person than over media so I'm not disheartened, though the same agency want me apply for other better paying jobs, I'm happy to apply but concentrate on the one I think I want

It must have been, it's a legal requirement. If it wasn't advertised externally then it wasn't a vacancy, which explains why no-one got the job, there was no job, they just decided to disrupt a lot of people's days by interviewing them for something that doesn't exist

As far as I'm aware there's no legal requirement to advertise externally or internally. I don't know where that stems form cocko. Can't find shit online saying its illegal to just advertise internally.

Half the roles in the company are only offered internally as they want experience due to the nature of the roles (inherent knowledge of the system, processes and the company's own internal workings).

They have currently got two roles out of four advertised externally however.

There's a few questions regarding it online and the general consensus is its up to the company but that advertising externally, and internally benefits them due to wider breadth.

My understanding is that any new vacancy has to be advertised - Whether it is internal or external is at the discretion of the employer.

acemuzzy wrote:

I think public sector maybe has different rules?

Nope (from the public sector). There are no rules, only company practice.

OK, given the amount of folk taking about vacancies it must not illegal to not advertise externally, but the employer opens then up to a world of discrimination based pain by not doing so. By only advertising internally or by not advertising they have at the very first step of the process discriminated against applicants not within the company or against applicants they haven't invited to apply

Of course you can, it's no different to discriminating based on race, gender, or politics. In fact it's easier to prove as they didn't even accept applications from the group discriminated against. You needn't necessarily hire from that group bit by not having slants you're wife open to a suit, assuming anyone finds out there was a vacancy in the first place

It's only discrimination if you don't offer something to someone who has an equal right to receive it. If you're outside a company, you have no equal right to receive internal job offers from them, therefore it cannot be discrimination. It's like saying I'm discriminating against everyone in my street because I only offer my wife a cup of tea.

EDIT: Of course, if a job was posted internally but only open to applications from a certain department, that could be discrimination. Like if I had two mates round to visit and I only offered one of them a cuppa. Being a part of something (i.e. a workplace) gives you a reasonable expectation of fair and equitable treatment. You can't expect fair and equitable treatment from something you're not a part of or have no stake in.