Well, that sucked

[uisgebeatha]

So, I'm back from the hen do (which was amazing fun times), but very croaky due to bronchitis of doom. I mentioned this to my recruitment chap, who was willing to delay one of the phone interviews to next week. Annoyingly, he then scheduled the other one for today because all the other candidates were being crammed in; I said fine, but I won't be

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[bugshaw]

I think you should go round to his house and leave some microfluids there. And not in a nice way.

Gah, I thought they just did interviews like that these days as training in how not to interview?

*sends electronic booze which is not affected by/does not affect antibiotics*

[aldabra]

I think that calls for feedback to the recruitment agency that they don't want to be sending people for interviews with abusive assholes. Wait until you're not frothing, and then write something that says "sexist" and maybe implies "racist", and "patronising", and "git", and then replace "git" with something polysyllabic and send it to them.

[hazyjayne]

Also, "ageist" (implying you had to have a certain number of years experience before he would consider you).

Personally I would be tempted to keep "git" *ahem*

Remember the purpose of an interview is for you to work out if you want to work for them as much as they want you to work for them!

[khalinche]

WANKER. Patronising, scummy, ignorant, condescending wanker. Thank Christ you don't have to work for this guy. I mean, shit, you might not know what CSYS stands for but saying 'whatever that is' over the phone to your interviewee? 'Pretending to be a geek'? FUUUUUCK YOUUUUU.

[usqueba]

This.

[swaldman]

Aside from "what a moron" and "aren't you glad you won't be working for him", I would add that *if* it was true that most of the other people he had interviewed had physics PhDs, then your agency is not doing its job. (either it's putting you forward for something you're not qualified for, or it's putting a load of expensive PhDs forward for something they don't need the qualification for)

[uisgebeatha]

Thing is, this particular agency is usually really good, and are well-respected in this area for sourcing tech jobs. It could be they didn't know this would be such a dud. Looking back at emails, he did say they'd got back to him first with the 'needs more science', but in the interview request mail the exact words are:

'$MD mentioned that his main requirement for this position is simply for someone who is bright and personable. For credibility in front of clients, as far as a scientific background goes, his main requirement is for someone who can quickly re-learn / remember GCSE level physics.'

So much for that, eh? Will take Aldabra's advice and email the agency methinks...

[emperor]

What an utter cock :(