Posted on 02/14/2012 9:00:34 AM PST by SeekAndFind
See you just proved exactly why not to hire overqualified candidates. You left in 6 months, so then they had to go through all the expense of the hiring process again. They would have been right to not hire you had you been truthful on your resume because you did EXACTLY what they would have feared.
They might not have had to spend any money training you, but they still spent tons on the rest of the hiring process, the time it took to sort through resumes and interview people to get to you (and then your replacement 6 months later) wasn’t free. That’s paid time that could have spent doing things more directly related to earning money.
I understand your position. Desperate times, desperate measures. What I’m pointing out is the other side, and how your action actually prove the other side is right. You cost them exactly the time and money that’s why not to hire overqualified candidates. Looking at reality from the other side is where real learning happens. There are good and valid reasons not to hire overqualified people and you yourself have BEEN those reasons.
Bozo, did ever occur to you that the value I added during those six months was probably 5 times what some high school reject would have provided? I gave them way more than I got back.
When I left I told them the truth they had NO PROBLEM with my work and actually called me 4 months later for an engineering position.
I did actually. You won’t believe it because it’s important to your pointlessly adversarial world view that I be a bad person. But out here in reality I’m a normal person with normal feelings and empathy, I’ve been on both sides of the interview table, I know how bad it sucks to need a job, and that knowledge twists a knife in my gut every I’ve ever interviewed somebody and didn’t hire them. Of course that knife twist inspires me to make better decisions. Thanks to doing a really good job hiring people when we expanded my department 6ish years ago I haven’t had to interview anybody since because they’re all still here. Another reason to not hire the overqualified, less wear and tear on the liver.
There you are addicted to the insults again, pathetic really. Even if you did provide 5 times the value (which is unlikely, most jobs at the low end of the world there’s only so much anybody can do and even the best guy can’t be more than 2 or 3 times as useful as the base) they still got stuck going through the hiring process again in 6 months instead of the years that is the goal.
For some reason I don't believe you.
pointlessly adversarial world view
Really, with AA, and other quotas , being over qualified and H1-b program which planet are you working on?
I agree there may not be enough jobs out there for those just starting out- I believe all the illegals in this country have a lot to do with the job market too.
I can tell you that during the wonderful Carter years I was a young adult getting started- I had a two year degree in Criminal Justice which I chose because I wanted to be in law enforcement and had been told it was really opening up for women and people with some college. The only job I was offered in law enforcement was meter maid- which in hindsight I should have taken because LEO did really open up for women after that and those that were already in jobs like that did well. What I did was get an entry level office job during the day and a job in a bar at night and a roomate so I could make it on my own. I did not go back to my parents, funny I didn’t think of that as an option and I know they would have let me move in. It just didn’t occur to me, I wanted to be on my own- I felt they had done their part.
Like I said they had no problem when I resigned. They liked me and tried to hire me 4 months later. It was win-win. But I guess to a HR loser, that just can't be. They may have to look at more resumes i.e. do there job, and can't take a 4 hour lunch. Cry me a f-ing river.
None of those are a reason to put insults in every single post. That’s just you being a jerk for no good reason. Pointlessly adversarial.
Funny too how the guy that admits to lying on resumes doesn’t want to believe what people say. Little bit of pot and kettle action there.
There you go with the insults again. And the lies, I told you I’m not in HR. We can now see your resume isn’t the only place you lie. You’re just plain an all around liar. Probably even lying about their reaction when you left. Or maybe they’re the “meat brains” you referred to a couple of days ago. Or maybe “Nazi HR”.
You really are addicted to being an all around ass aren’t you. We’re done. You’re a liar, and a jerk. And you’re beneath my contempt.
See ya.
I’m glad that you have managed such a refined life, I don’t know when your dating youth was, I wonder if wealth and age has something to do with your experience being so incredibly different than life for most people, I wouldn’t even know where to go to find a rooming house for girls or rental agencies solely devoted to female housing, nor do I know what kind of girls you deal with who rent apartments next to your part time New York City residence.
A boy dropping out of high school won’t be moving into his girlfriend’s life and apartment, but a girl dropping out of high school is in high demand.
In my experience, males are more likely to have to support their own apartments than females, the females have an easier time of going from relationship to relationship which includes a roof, that is one reason that any normal looking youngish female has to be very off mentally to be living on the streets.
Without digging deeply, some quick numbers are about half of women have shacked up, and in 1995 a quarter of women age 25-34 were shacking up, and I think 34 was well into the older group where many have been married off.
In my experience I was thinking more of females 18 into their mid to late 20s as being the ones who drift from live in relationship to live in relationship,by the way, my son is a struggling artist in New York, he graduated Cooper Union about 5 years ago.
Good summary.
Hey, you can call me out on age (I just turned 57) but wealth? Refined? Sorry, I grew up in a working class family in Queens. I came of age in the 70s and 80s. I lived in many a dive with other girls my age. The boarding house I’m talking about was the basis for the movie “Stage Door.” It closed in the 1980s - so did the Barbizon - which is the temporary home of the heroine of Sylvia Plath’s novel “The Bell Jar.” It was a very middle-class hotel and I could only afford to stay there once in a while. Both of these residences were once well-known to New Yorkers.
Yes, indeed, my husband I rent a small apt. in NYC and there are several single women living there. I hear them going out the door at 7am every morning. I’m confused as to why you think this is rare. When I worked in offices throughout the ‘90s and early 2000’s in NYC, most of the women I knew were either living with roommates or living in apartments in the boroughs. Some, of course, lived at home.
If your son is having trouble finding a decent girl, I would suggest he join either a church that holds dances and singles events (my best friend found her husband this way) or join a great group called The Young Republicans (of NY).
Not only will you meet great, conservative people with this organization but you will be invited to events where you will meet many name Republicans and get to know them on a first name basis. That can also be a career boost.
I never mentioned my son’s marital or dating status, I merely mentioned he is a new York city artist because of your home page.
You have good stories about you, boarding houses and NYC, they don’t seem to mean much to the fact that females are more likely to drift from boyfriend apartment to the next boyfriends apartment, females are much more likely to skate on having to support themselves in their young years, than males.
I think you simply have a poor opinion of single women for some reason. Nothing I can write can change that.
Good gosh, there is no reason to make such a hostile personal attack as that.
Your attack reveals why you kept trying to massage the truth and were treating my simple observation so harshly, you seem to have some agenda, an identity chauvinism to your efforts.
I didn’t realize that there was a subtext to what I thought was just an everyday observation.
I don’t know what you’re talking about! I merely observed that you seemed down on single women. If you’re not, I apologize.
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