Posted on 07/18/2014 10:49:41 AM PDT by MNDude
Recently I was involved with a business meeting with another officer of our company with a woman seeking a contracting job with our company.
We went out to lunch for a long meeting to discuss what we were looking for and what she had to offer. After our meeting, she said something like "I'm sure you guys would like to discuss this with one another if I'm a match or not. I would like to excuse myself to the restroom." She then took her purse, put it in the middle of the table and left for the restroom.
We then started discussing our initial thoughts and concerns about our meeting with her. A while later she came back to rejoin us, and later on in the week, she sent us an email discussing possible objections we might have to hiring her.
The guy that I met with is convinced that she left a recorder inside her purse and and then put the purse in front of us to capture our conversation. He says "a woman would never leave her purse on the table with some guys she just met! She was recording us!"
I don't know what is normal for carrying and leaving a purse, so my question is for the women here. How odd is it that she left purse on the table with us while she went to the restroom? Odd enough to have suspicions about being recorded?
No. I’d take it with me- especially to refresh my makeup since there were guys I wanted to impress. All most ALL would do this!
One reason people are contractors is that they have a ‘bad’ employment history, or criminal background and can’t get hired for a full time position.
Why contractors aren’t scrutinized as much, or more than new hires is beyond me.
I never leave my bag unless it’s with friends/family..very suspicious.
There's an old joke about a company which, at the end of the hiring process asks the candidate to take an unsealed confidential envelope to a different office on the bottom floor. 9 candidates do as asked, and then are told “thank you, we'll call you”
The 10th looks in it and reads “Congratulations, you are just the sort of person we are looking for, report to HR on the 4th floor to fill out your employment paperwork” :-)
A civilian was considered an ordinary pom, as in Prisoner Of Her Majesty. Someone in the intelligence or sometimes their military was a Prisoner Of Her Majesty's Service.
My mum and dad called them pommies for different reasons, which you found out already. Our mobs used the unrecognized ones because of having to deal with them again and again. The stuffy lot of them.
My wife goes apesh#t if anyone sets a purse on a kitchen counter. The amount of bacteria and nasty germs on the bottom of a purse is sickening.
One of my concerns about hiring her would be her poor hygiene habits.
I wouldn’t leave my purse with people I don’t know.
I can’t even imagine leaving my handbag on the table. Ever.
We then started discussing our initial thoughts and concerns about our meeting with her. A while later she came back to rejoin us, and later on in the week, she sent us an email discussing possible objections we might have to hiring her.
The guy that I met with is convinced that she left a recorder inside her purse and and then put the purse in front of us to capture our conversation. He says "a woman would never leave her purse on the table with some guys she just met! She was recording us!"
Well, DUH!!!
This was probably her 2,357th interview with sub-human illiterate scumbags, 99.9999% of whom were academically and otherwise totally unqualified to either interview for their own positions, or hold any enty-level position in their own departments, and will never in this lifetime be qualified to assess the experience and capabilities of anyone they interviewed.
That is just how it is and has been in this declining, post-American job market. I don't blame her a bit for recording the scumbags.
... a business meeting with another officer of our company with a woman seeking a contracting job with our company.
We went out to lunch for a long meeting to discuss what we were looking for and what she had to offer.
Oh, please.
It is VERY odd.
I would not leave my purse on a table with strangers.
“I slip the tampon in the front of my bra.”
Extremely odd. Curiously, did her response seem to jibe with your’s and your cohorts objections?
I would worry about someone like that that wanted to trap you in some sexual harassment situation (not that you would step over the line but guys say stuff, just like women do).
What did you say when she was gone? She recorded you.
Uhhh . . I think youre doing it wrong . .
Well, at least she's not hanging it from her ear. ;o)
Only dining out with family do I leave a purse at the table otherwise I keep it with at all times.
I think y’all were recorded. Do not hire!
but this was zero-party, she wasn't part of the conversation
TMI
wow... that is pretty harsh considering you never met these guys.
Didn’t I just say that? Or did you mean to address MNDude?
I’m with you. VERY suspicious. Women ALWAYS take their purse with them to a public restroom, for a whole lot of reasons.
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