We interrupt this cozy and fluffy board to bring you a rant
As some of you know, I had an interview on Monday for a promotion at work. Well, I say interview – it was a range of activities including a 10 minute presentation followed by an interview, a one hour written exercise on how I would save the world, and a 40 minute role playing exercise consisting of me finding a nice way to say to a colleague “stop being a cunt and sort the mess out that you’ve created. Please”.

Anyhow, usual procedure in these cases is to let the candidates know on the day how they’ve done. There were two of us in for it. Or so we thought.

It actually transpires that we can’t be told anything because there was a third internal candidate, who didn’t turn up. This person has a special arrangement where she only works term time, because of childcare responsibilities. Fair enough, I’m all for flexible working patterns. However, what I object to is the fact that she was notified of the interview, but opted to just not turn up on the day, citing ‘childcare’ as the reason. In fact, I don’t even think she rang in before hand – HR appear to have just realised that she should have been there and wasn’t, and have eventually got in contact with her.

The result is that she’s threatening to get the union involved if she’s not given a chance to go through the assessment process, citing her current position as being ‘at risk’ as the reason. This has the knock on effect that I, and my colleague, are being kept in the dark until this is sorted. Which may be next week, or it may be September.

My problem is this: If you are a reasonably intelligent person, put yourself forward for a job and are invited to an interview, which presumably you accept; if you then fail to turn up on the day shouldn’t this automatically cunt you in the fuck? Especially if you fail to notify HR that you can’t attend for whatever reason? Doesn’t this demonstrate a lack of professionalism on your part? And if childcare was the issue, then THERE’S A FUCKING CRECHE JUST ACROSS THE BLOODY ROAD YOU DOZY COW!

Sorry for rant, I’m just sick of being pissed around.


As you were, peeps. Cakes and kittums all round.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:34, 20 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

.....and breathe.
Surely her actions must count against her in the final decision.
( girlinthehole, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:39, Reply)

Can't you
point this out to HR, and say that surely she doesn't have the right to insist that she get an interview, because she fucked up in the first place?

Or would they suddenly go all jobsworthy, in the special way that only HR can...?
(The Empress it seems you CAN polish a turd!, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:40, Reply)

Ah HR
or soul eating cnuts as we like to call them where I work.

To be honest I think her behaviour has shot herself in the foot, and hopefully also head into any chance of getting the job. Unless she doesn't, you do and she screams discrimination from the rooftops.

If she does, just give her a nudge from said roof and watch the pretty splatter patterns
(Halfy By light alone, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:45, Reply)

for your sake I hope this doesn't happen
but they could bend over backwards to prevent her kicking up a fuss and end up giving her the job to shut her the fuck up.

then she will cock it up or not do her duties and they won't be able to get rid of the daft bitch.

this may sound like a hard line to take but she chose to have kids, it's her fucking fault if that gets in the way of her life, not yours, or the other poor bastard.

I hope that she does get cunted in the fuck and that you get the promotion!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:45, Reply)

Bob
HR would probably get all jobsworthy, to be honest. And the union would get arsey about it.

This is just the latest in a series of monumental fuck ups by HR (several of my colleagues have been cocked around over the last few weeks. Hence my board sig...)
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:52, Reply)

Oh, mate!
What a shitty thing to happen. I suggest cunting her in the fuck, especially for wanting to 'get the union involved'!

For what? For the fact that she's too fucking lazy to turn in for an interview. No, not even that, because she's too lazy to 'phone in saying she couldn't make it and can they please delay?

And, of course, once the word 'union' is mentioned, HR shits itself.

I'm sorry buddy. I only hope that HR force the process quickly, and then don't give the job to her. Although, of course, you can see the yoo-nyun getting involved there again, can't you?

Bugger.
( Devil_In_Tights the *real* DiT!, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 11:53, Reply)

I have a contingency anyway
If I don't get it, I still have a job, albeit less well paid. If my other colleague that was interviewed on the day gets it, whilst I wouldn't begrudge her it, I'd push for an immediate increase in salary on the basis that (a) I have vastly more experience in that particular line of work than she does and (b) it's about time I became a mercenary bastard about these things anyway.

However, if madam can't-be-arsed-to-turn-up gets it, I will be mighty peeved and will probably make a total pest of myself with HR to know the full facts.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 12:06, Reply)

...
I can't see how she can say her position is at risk. It's not as if she'd be fired from her present post. Failure to get a job is just one of those things...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 12:08, Reply)

We're undergoing restructuring at the moment
Which basically means rejigging the Agency in order to make efficiency savings (first act was to appoint two assistant Chief Executives - go figure). As a result some people have been single matched into new posts (myself included) which means they're safe. Others have been multi-matched, which means there is more than one person identified as having the skills to do a job and therefore have to go through a mini selection process. And some haven't been matched at all and face redundancy.

She's in one of the latter two categories.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 12:23, Reply)

Sounds like she's going all out to ensure she gets a job
the childcare thing is just an excuse in my opinion.

Yes children are important but so is your job. If you have an interview then you ensure the kids are taken care of for the day. You also take a job which enables you to be there for the kids when you have to - if that means a lower paid job then so be it...you decide to have children then I'm afraid there are penalties to be paid. In an ideal world parents' careers would be unaffected by children and children would cope supremely well in good childcare facilities. But we don't live in an ideal world so we need to make compromises.

She needs to make compromises and not fall back on discrimination laws where clearly she's the one at fault.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 12:48, Reply)

Oh, and another thing
I feel your pain - I've applied for some lecturing jobs and am still waiting to hear...and I'm also waiting to hear about acceptance for a short story too.

I hate waiting for things.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 12:51, Reply)

Of course
Sureptitiously hands ancrenne ciggie under desk
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 13:12, Reply)

Cunting in the fuck
sounds like a good option. And as far as I'm concerned, childcare is not an issue. My mum went back to teaching 6 months after I was born, I was dropped off at a childminder at 7 and picked up at 8. I wasn't allowed to miss a day off school until I was old enough to get home by myself, and I have a good work ethic because of it.

Quite frankly she can fuck off.

And file a complaint that you've been discriminated against because of your facial hair if she gets it. They should get the point.
( Madam Marlboro wonders if you've found her yet, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 13:13, Reply)

chickenlady
I have no objection to her going all out to ensure that she has a job. I'd do the same in that situation. But I'd also ensure that I turned up on the day specified, and if for any reason I couldn't would ring HR to let them know. I would also accept that my failure to not notify anyone that I couldn't make it would mean that it was my fuck-up, and therefore my fault. Not my child's, not HR's, or anyone else's. Mine.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 13:16, Reply)

sends *hugs* to DG
'cos that just sucks. If she'd cared that much she'd have made arrangements for the kids. Poor excuse.

*sends evil vibes to HR, the union and the selfish bint putting a spanner in the works*
(TheWeeWitch hasn't been here much recently .., Wed 6 Aug 2008, 14:05, Reply)

@DG
DG - cnut her in the fcuk, indeed.

HR plus union sounds like a simple attempt by her to get her revenge in first.

Cynical manipulation of circumstances, hence the entirely justification of cnuting her in the fcuk.
(Eds Meds Mathskillz=1,Socialskillz=0, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 16:04, Reply)

What everyone else said
She sounds like a fuckwit that tried to cover her tracks by citing childcare. Everyone has access to a phone these days, and if she already works there, then it's not like she didn't know the number to call.
( fuck shit up the best you never had, Wed 6 Aug 2008, 20:17, Reply)

^^
GHOSTBUSTERS!

Sorry, am in a silly mood.

That's bloody awful mate, I agree with cunting her in the fuck.

Or you could kick her in the cunt until her tits explode?

Your choice!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 7 Aug 2008, 9:27, Reply)