I can’t believe someone would do that. I got a bunch of 50p robbed at work. You get so comfortable, and you probably recognise them, that it feels worse. I hate that that’s happened to you.

Eehh.

Turns out I put it in the locker next to mine cos I'm a fucking idiot. Got it back this morning. Having the shit ripped out of me for it.

Which cunt did you think it was though???

Yeah mate, you cant let them get away with that.

Kazuo wrote:

Kazuo wrote:

Hmm, one of the few very good jobs in my (relatively narrow) field that would be a natural step up from my level has just come up. Feels inevitable that I should chuck in an application, but I'm suddenly having a crisis of confidence. It would be the first thing I've applied for in about five years, and I'm plagued by worries that I will be caught short by the leap in terms of responsibilities involved. I should probably give my head a wobble, stop thinking so far ahead, and just set myself the goal of getting an application done.  Now how the hell do you write one of those again?

So I applied for this job and have just been invited to interview on Monday. Fucking... Eek.

So after interviewing for this and acquitting myself as well as I could, it turns out I didn't get this job. That's fair enough, as I thought they would probably have had stronger candidates to offer it to. But they waited til the end of the week to let me know in a curt email just a couple of lines long, the same you would send for someone who didn't get an interview rather than one who spent nearly an hour basically presenting for the job. I might have at least expected a phone call. So on top of everything else today that's put me out slightly. What a Friday 13th.

Fuck ’em. Whoever they were.

Good practice for you Kaz, ready for next time.

What arseholes. You’re right to be annoyed. Basic courtesy would be a phone call, I would expect that after an interview no matter what position. If there were a lot of candidates then a nice polite email explaining why, at the very least.

I was furious at my boss in my last job because he got a load of people in for interviews for our ‘team’ (which I had to organise), he interviewed them all turning up late, and then never got back in touch with them to say they didn’t get the job. They emailed me for updates (because he wouldn’t reply) and I asked each time if I can give them a call/email to explain that they didn’t get it this time but thank you and any feedback why. Boss said no, he’d do it, and of course he never did. So I just emailed them back saying he will get back to them.

I sent them a nice email reply after about 2 months and apologised. I’ve been in that position, I’ve been job searching where you put your CV to hundreds of places and when you get that interview it’s such a massive thing. I’ve also been ignored after and thought I was better off without them.

Reason #342 why I left that place lol. He was a really nice dude, but if I didn’t act like his PA most of the time stuff would never get done.

Tbf a lot of people feel that good practice is to always deliver rejections by email because candidates expect to recieve good news by phone and bad news by email. In that sense I wouldn't take it personally although the email being curt is a bit shit.

Appreciate the feedback all. To be fair to the guy (and Cocko's response) I emailed an asked for some fuller feedback and he has offered to have a phone chat with me next week. But yes, onwards, upwards, all that fun stuff.

An email! Oh we used to dream of getting an email!

Ha, awesome.

Diluted Dante wrote:

An email! Oh we used to dream of getting an email!

Back in my day you’d get a brick through the window saying NO JOB

cosmicjellybean wrote:

Tempy wrote:

Cosmic, dunno what world you’re living in where you think a phone call is the kind of thing you get after failing a job app or interview these days, you’re lucky if you get anything beyond a template. Absolutely blown away that Kaz is getting any feedback at all. Ended up going into work today when I was apparently rota’d off (manager forgot to update me) but they were getting fucking slammed so I stayed, despite the fact I am knackered and have tons of uni work. Hate this stupid bar, but can’t bare to see the staff strung out on a night like tonight.

But that’s so fucked up! I remember getting a phone call after interviews in little high street shops. Suppose they were local so maybe had more time. I get that an email might be a bit better to not get hopes up though. If you’ve spoken to someone face to face and they’ve made this trip in, and probably taken time off work to do so, then a quick call to say ‘unfortunately not this time’ is not exactly putting yourself out. But then I guess the world is full of cunts and who gives a shit right and their time is way too important for such trivial things like being nice or whatever.

I think the world is full of cunts, aye, but a lot of that is auxillary to the process of applying for a job. The main reasons tend to be structural. Applying for Jobs to Glasgow Uni for example is a terrible thing cos you have to do massive 2-3k word documents and then the person who decides whether your application gets passed through isn't even in the same sector- they're just tasked with checking your work against tick boxes. I have some sympathy though, the job economy is vile at the moment and positions often have 100s of applicants. I like the way the NHS does it, even if it can be seen as sort of counter intuitive - they have a cap on applications which means that realistically everyone should hear back.

The Daddy wrote:

Oh you had windows did you...?

Oh we used to DREAM of Windows. When I were a lad we had to walk 15 miles in the snow just to get a glimpse of a window and even when we got there we had to pay the man for the good grace of a peep.

Dance into the office on Monday.