How to get and lose a job in 27 minutes

Liar

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Got a phone call today from the head of staff for a smaller guvment agency. I applied for a job there as info manager for all the buerocratic, politic and technocratic bullshit they have to make readable for normal people, which is exactly what I want to do when I grow up. Plus, the pay was awesome. But I never thought I'd even get to an interview, since I haven't got a finished education and no pror experience in the field. But they booked me for a job interview last week anyway, and now they called.

"Mr L? We've now reviewed the interviews and made a desicion. Can you start after the midsummer weekend?"

Needless to say, I didn't have any problem with that.

25 minutes later, while I was pouring up the victory drink, the phone rang again.

"Mr L? I'm sorry, there's been a policy change, due to a parlament desicion, this entire agency is being closed. So not only can't we offer you the job, we'll have to start looking for new jobs ourselves."

"Wait a minute" I said, "Are you saying that you didn't know this, or that there even was a risk for it, half an hour ago?"

"Welcome to my frustration."

All hail government buerocracy, where the right hand don't know what the left is doing.

:rolleyes:
 
getting even

Is 27 minutes long enough to draw unemployment? :devil:
 
Subo97 said:
Is 27 minutes long enough to draw unemployment? :devil:
bwah.

As a student, I'm already living off the taxpayers. And as a result, I'll probably do that for a while longer. :cool:
 
Liar said:
bwah.

As a student, I'm already living off the taxpayers. And as a result, I'll probably do that for a while longer. :cool:
To make this a truly emotional rollercoaster, it would be the department that is paying you to be a student that was closing, and this is how you learn that stipend was going away.

Tough luck Liar.
 
I'm sorry for you.

I was once the messenger bearing similar bad news. One of our specialist departments was recruiting new Science graduates in Birmingham and the interviews started on a Monday.

At 10 am that Monday I, in London, had a phone call to say that all recruitment had been frozen and that no job offers were to be made. I had to get a secretary to interrupt the first candidate's interview to tell the recruitment panel the bad news. The panel's Chairman didn't believe his secretary and rang me direct. His language was most instructive. They had been working with all the potential candidates for the last year of their degree courses, and had invested hundreds of manhours in preparing the candidates for their specialist requirements.

I told him to continue interviewing but NOT to make any job offers.

During that day I spent hours trying to get an exemption for our specialist scientists. I succeeded - but was nearly fired for being a nuisance to the company's board members.

The interview panel's Chairman greeted the news that they had an exemption with "At last! Some common sense!". I had no thanks.

Three months later he found out how far out-of-line I had gone in his interests. On my next visit to his facility I had some single malt Scotch from a glass measuring beaker.

Unfortunately, senior managements are fond of draconian pronouncement that ruin the lives of their workers.

Better luck with the job search.

Og
 
Liar:
I am sorry to hear about your job problem. HOWEVER, if you hope to get a job, ever, your spelling is going to have to greatly improve.

JMHO.
 
R. Richard said:
Liar:
I am sorry to hear about your job problem. HOWEVER, if you hope to get a job, ever, your spelling is going to have to greatly improve.

JMHO.


Well, since he is probably applying for jobs in his native SWEDEN, I should imagine for those jobs he probably has the required good spelling in his native language of SWEDISH.

I'd like to see you type such coherent Swedish as he does English.
 
Liar: I'm very sorry to hear this. I'm going through mgmt bullshit at my day job this am, too, but I think you've got something that beats this. ~sigh~
 
:rose: Sorry, Liar. That really, really sucks. On the positive side of things, maybe you had a lucky escape from working for a place where, as you said, the right hand doesn't know what the left is doing.
 
R. Richard said:
Liar:
I am sorry to hear about your job problem. HOWEVER, if you hope to get a job, ever, your spelling is going to have to greatly improve.

JMHO.
Dis is a pron bored. Eye dont weist my brein pover here.
 
Liar said:
Dis is a pron bored. Eye dont weist my brein pover here.




Yeah......bullshit.... :D



Look on the bright side. If you had taken the government job then we would have had to refer to you as "The Man" and made disparaging comments about how you were repressing the masses.... :D


Sorry about you bad luck, Liar...
 
Vermilion said:


Has anyone ever told you that you smirk rather sexily? Must be the incredibly sensous lips. Have to think about that for a while.


pondering...
 
The_Fool said:
Has anyone ever told you that you smirk rather sexily? Must be the incredibly sensous lips. Have to think about that for a while.


pondering...

Hrmm... but you haven't seen my lips - of *any* description, before someone gets inappropriate - so how would you know, huh? <smirks again>
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Vermilion said:
Hrmm... but you haven't seen my lips - of *any* description, before someone gets inappropriate - so how would you know, huh? <smirks again>
x
V


I see them through the words.....I am psychotic like that..... :D
 
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