i grew up in Acton MA and worked in the northern VA area for about 10 years.
yes, people are that sleazy... at a minimum.
i’ve had headhunters try to get me fired from the job i was in so they could put me on a contract they had.
I have experienced the worst treatment when looking for a job I have ever experienced at any level of doing the most menial work as a kid. My wife got relocated and I had to quit and leave my job of many years.
The degree of apathetic indifference which mid level managers base their decisions on when it comes to managing the company's assets, lines of business, and staff is creating a future nightmare for firms. The key for these managers is to operate under the radar. When these firms need strong leadership to regrow lines of business and services, they are doomed.
This is a BS article. The HR types don’t say “No” (1) in case a candidate they chose does not turn out well and they need a back-up, and (2) in case they are challenged or worse still, sued over a ‘refusal’. And yes, overwork/laziness may be in there as well when you may get 1,000 applicants for a position.
I don’t think of your average HR person as being the FR type.
I still feel bad. Sad thing is, it almost immediately eliminated him as a candidate.
We REALLY felt uncomfortable after that and who wants someone who has no problem putting you in an extremely difficult situation even before you hire them?
Sorry that people get their feelings hurt but the only thing that should be important is landing a job.
File a claim against them in small claims court.
Tom Fleming is over 45, any questions?
Still, the function of HR is to (underlined) reject candidates, and to handle the layoffs. When a company, like say, Google, receives thousands of resumes a day, who do you think screens them and rejects the majority of them? HR. When your main function is rejecting (the hapless applicants and those laid off), that kinda affects your thinking, doesn't it. Let's not kid ourselves about the true function of HR.
I’ve heard of some great “bait and switch” tricks the HR people have tried on.
One is to offer a good paying job locally, then when people apply, to offer them a job in ‘Podunk’ at less than half that.
Another is to offer a “training wage” or “probationary period” at much less than full pay.
The CEO of one company suspected hanky-panky in his HR department, so he sent his nephew to interview with a perfect resume. Not only did the HR guy try to stick it to him with below standard pay, but sensing someone who really wanted the job, he demanded a kickback for hiring him. The nephew hesitated, then agreed, so sensing weakness, the HR guy hit on the nephew sexually.
When the nephew refused, the HR guy tried to bully, then threaten him that he would never work in that town again unless he agreed to the sex act. The nephew left, so, true to his word, the HR guy wrote up a scathing report on him, even accusing him of petty theft.
Soon the company had a new HR chief. The nephew. The old HR guy then sued the company for unfair dismissal. Their legal department was briefly concerned until a dozen employees came forward to complain about the old HR guy.
I think HR types are behaving differently than in the past. When I was looking for work a few years back I was shocked at the lack of common courtesy. I’m doing okay now, but I recall being offered jobs on at least three occasions, but was never able to start due to some inexplicable lack of internal approvals. Been through the multiple interviews without any definitive rejection letter or response - in some cases received gratuitiously rude rejections. I think that some basic level of courtesy has eroded across society. I’m not an HR type, but do make a point to respond to every phone call/e-mail even if only in a cursory way as to do otherwise would be rude. HR people that do otherwise should be fired and perhaps learn some manners.
One of these companies was large computer and printer maker where I had three interviews for a position as a project manager and then dead silence. I learned later from a friend at the same company that the position had been filled by a Russian twenty-five years my junior and in all likelihood I had just been H1B "due diligence".
The next company flew me to Texas FOUR times for interviews and told me after the final interview they had checked my references and were preparing an offer and like the first I never heard from them again. My follow-ups went unacknowledged and about a month later I found a post on a blog that the company had hired a guy away from Motorola for a strikingly similar position.
Eventually I came to realize I was just too old, too white and too heterosexual to be considered employable by an American company.
When the Chinese came for me it was completely different, they flew me and my wife to China first class and while I discussed business and toured the company a couple of the executives english speaking wives gave my wife the grand tour of Shanghai. We left with an agreement they have not deviated from.