lockstock
22nd September 2008, 08:58 PM
Seething:mad:
When I resigned from my teaching job a couple of months (long story) to take a term off and reassess the situation, OH decided he would look for a full time job to keep us going. He applied for a job with a well-known organisation whose responsibilty it is to return wayward folk to the straight and narrow. He was sent an info pack the size of a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and asked to fill in an application for plus send his CV. Just after the closing date they phoned him to say he had an interview and they would confirm this in writing. They did.
OH went to the offices to see how the set up was and spoke at length with the Organgrinder. He liked what he saw. A week or so later he was interviewed but before they offered him the job, they asked him if he preferred part-time Saturdays or full-time Saturdays. Now, OH is a cricket freak and didn't like the idea of all his Saturdays being taken up so he told them that he wouldn't mind doing Saturday every so often if he could swap a day in the week.
What week? they asked. This is a Saturday job.
That's not what the advert says - OH shows advert neatly clipped from the Waikato Times.
Oh sorry there's been a mistake. They put the wrong ad in. Never mind Mr Lockstock - do you still want the job?
Two words, second one 'off'. (Not really, but you get the picture.)
Last week Mr Organgrinder phones up to say there is now a 4 day/week permanent job would OH be interested.
Yes of course.
OK we'll get back to you?
They phoned today to say they've given the job to the 'other' bloke. Hope that's ok. OH said he thought he'd been offered the job. Oh no, there was never a job offer, just checking to see if he was interested.
We are devasted. It's been over two months since the first non-existent job was advertised, and now this. OH has given notice to the school thinking he could start work asap. Now there's no job anywhere.
OK, so we should have waited til there was something in writing but having been interviewed and then called back with a better job, you'd have thought it was a pretty safe bet.
Are we talking total incompetence here or just pure lack of consideration?
When I resigned from my teaching job a couple of months (long story) to take a term off and reassess the situation, OH decided he would look for a full time job to keep us going. He applied for a job with a well-known organisation whose responsibilty it is to return wayward folk to the straight and narrow. He was sent an info pack the size of a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and asked to fill in an application for plus send his CV. Just after the closing date they phoned him to say he had an interview and they would confirm this in writing. They did.
OH went to the offices to see how the set up was and spoke at length with the Organgrinder. He liked what he saw. A week or so later he was interviewed but before they offered him the job, they asked him if he preferred part-time Saturdays or full-time Saturdays. Now, OH is a cricket freak and didn't like the idea of all his Saturdays being taken up so he told them that he wouldn't mind doing Saturday every so often if he could swap a day in the week.
What week? they asked. This is a Saturday job.
That's not what the advert says - OH shows advert neatly clipped from the Waikato Times.
Oh sorry there's been a mistake. They put the wrong ad in. Never mind Mr Lockstock - do you still want the job?
Two words, second one 'off'. (Not really, but you get the picture.)
Last week Mr Organgrinder phones up to say there is now a 4 day/week permanent job would OH be interested.
Yes of course.
OK we'll get back to you?
They phoned today to say they've given the job to the 'other' bloke. Hope that's ok. OH said he thought he'd been offered the job. Oh no, there was never a job offer, just checking to see if he was interested.
We are devasted. It's been over two months since the first non-existent job was advertised, and now this. OH has given notice to the school thinking he could start work asap. Now there's no job anywhere.
OK, so we should have waited til there was something in writing but having been interviewed and then called back with a better job, you'd have thought it was a pretty safe bet.
Are we talking total incompetence here or just pure lack of consideration?