Aussie interview technique
Many years ago I was contracting in the great southern land.

I sat an interview for a large international company that rents cars out and it's pretty "Nifty" at it.... geddit?

Anyway, interview (by the Head of IT and head of Marketing) went like this:
Them: "We need someone to do some HMLT."
Me: "Don't you mean HTML?"
Them: "Bloody hell, we've got a good one here! When can you start?"

Among the many amusing things I saw was the Friday they realised the backup servers had not been working for nearly a month. So they dismantled them on the desks in the IT dept. The end of the day arrived and the management decision of "Finish that on Monday" was made.

That weekend an almighty power outtage during a storm put an untimely death to several old out of warranty servers with the most recent backup being 4 weeks prior, including the one that matched all the speeding/parking fines to the right customers.

Finally when I was reaching the end of my legal max contract length (Aussie Visas are strict!) I was asked to help interview for my replacement. After interviewing several no hope candidates the two dept heads say to me "These candidates are fucking monkeys!".... my response "That's because you're paying peanuts".

Yep, they genuinely expected to attract a $100,000AUD calibre interviewee to a job advertised at $50,000AUD.

I left, got word a couple of months later the international parent company was taking over and several managers got canned.

Nice guys though :-)
(golddust QOTW now revolves around being a cunt, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 14:16, 1 reply)

My mate emigrated, and now lives in Wagga Wagga.
He said that he gets proper told if he swears in front of women.

However, lewd, crass, very obvious innuendo is absolutely fine.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 10 Jun 2010, 14:24, closed)