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Post by Vortex on Apr 15, 2024 10:56:17 GMT
Good luck Sal!
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Post by LegendaryApe on Apr 15, 2024 10:57:26 GMT
Good luck, Salaman!
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 15, 2024 12:19:05 GMT
Fingers crossed for some good news, salaman! |
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Post by salaman on Apr 15, 2024 13:03:13 GMT
Oh bollocks. I just let an unknown number go to voicemail and after checking the email signatures, it was their HR manager.
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 15, 2024 13:25:05 GMT
Generally speaking a phone call is usually positive news?
In the recruitment roles I've worked in we'd normally make offer calls but send declines via email in the first instance...
(I could be wrong of course)
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Post by JonFE on Apr 15, 2024 16:11:28 GMT
Oh bollocks. I just let an unknown number go to voicemail and after checking the email signatures, it was their HR manager. He didn't leave a voicemail. You did call them back, right? |
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Post by mrpon on Apr 15, 2024 16:14:41 GMT
Generally speaking a phone call is usually positive news? If you answer it? Soz sal. |
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Post by drhickman1983 on Apr 15, 2024 16:19:19 GMT
Generally speaking a phone call is usually positive news? If you answer it? Soz sal. I'd be surprised if anybody offering a job gave up and moved onto the second best for not answering the phone first time. I mean I'm making pretty big assumptions so they may not be even calling about that. But just generally it would be quite bad practice to ring once then give up. |
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Post by salaman on Apr 15, 2024 21:14:12 GMT
Grab hold of a wooden surface as you read this. I don't want to jinx it but...
...I got hold of him about 4.30pm.
The management team have asked to check references as a tick box exercise before making a formal offer.
I pointed out there 4 reference letters uploaded to their CV warehouse job site already but I promised to send him contact info of management team members at my last 2 employers for them to call and speak to.
I tried tracking the COO of my last job and the CEO of the company I was working for before that.
The COO gave me the thumbs up to send on his info. Chasing down the CEO tomorrow.
So, assuming they sort out references tomorrow or Wednesday, they should have a contract proposal for me by the end of the week.
With a bit of luck, I could start next Monday.
*touches wood*
Heh.
I just realized I decided to not tell the kids until they arrive tomorrow (my daughter and my girlfriend's son are with us 1 week out of 2) and not to tell parents, sister, in-laws, etc until I actually signed a contract but here I am at FontGeek sharing the excitement (which seemed like the done thing, really).
Thanks for the support/comic relief everyone.
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 15, 2024 21:16:11 GMT
Nice, salaman! Hope everything goes smoothly on the references front. Keep us posted... |
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Post by Lizard on Apr 15, 2024 21:20:24 GMT
If you answer it? Soz sal. I'd be surprised if anybody offering a job gave up and moved onto the second best for not answering the phone first time. I mean I'm making pretty big assumptions so they may not be even calling about that. But just generally it would be quite bad practice to ring once then give up. Yeah, I wouldn't want to work at a place where jobs are lost by not answering the phone first time. |
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Post by Dougs on Apr 16, 2024 6:05:19 GMT
Or leaving a voicemail. Congrats Sal, sure references will all be fine. Find it odd that they want 2, that could be from years ago...and in the UK most references are done by HR and basically confirm people are who they say they are, didn't have horrendous sick records etc.
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Post by zisssou on Apr 16, 2024 9:33:41 GMT
Great now we've entered redundancy mode. I knew it was on the cards, as they sold the company last year, and they want to make it more 'lean'. Of course the CEO got a massive pay-out for his retirement, and another exec has retired already. It's just disgusting this corporate world.
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Post by Tomo on Apr 16, 2024 9:49:19 GMT
But think of the iNnOvAtIoNnNnNnNnN
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Post by rhaegyr on Apr 16, 2024 9:52:20 GMT
Sorry to hear that zisssou - best of luck with the headaches that follow. |
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Post by zisssou on Apr 16, 2024 10:04:32 GMT
Thanks! They just got rid of a PO in our team in India. Already left. Mental.
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Post by simple on Apr 17, 2024 9:54:46 GMT
Interesting twist this morning. After the fallout of the budget cuts being that the directorate I work in having failed to meet the target set by university exec committee a few weeks back this morning the email has landed saying the director is walking.
One from a uni exec announcing the news but no thank yous, just a list of roles the director had filled, and one from the director thanking the staff.
Rumours abound of a massive blow-up between them.
I can see why someone might quit in frustration but it feels far from ideal if the most senior person fighting our corner walks and the university has already announced they’ll be advertising externally for the replacement. Presumably they want a yes man and that’ll be an end of the discussion.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 17, 2024 20:30:45 GMT
Fucking hell, had to take yesterday off due to sleep deprivation, anxiety and stress. Back in today and whoever used my desk has changed every possible setting to the chair, desk and monitor arms, and also left a load of fucking pubes behind.
And now our team meeting has been turned into a morning tea with some weird partnering rule so we get an even amount of sweet and savoury food. Never mind the fact that everything in our organisation is fucked and redundancies are coming means that there is definitely a need for the meeting.
The morning tea takes place in our claustrophobic, panic-inducing excuse for a kitchen. I will have to skulk off the the library and be classed as a miserable bastard.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Apr 17, 2024 20:32:40 GMT
Fucking hell, had to take yesterday off due to sleep deprivation, anxiety and stress. Back in today and whoever used my desk has changed every possible setting to the chair, desk and monitor arms, and also left a load of fucking pubes behind. And now our team meeting has been turned into a morning tea with some weird partnering rule so we get an even amount of sweet and savoury food. Never mind the fact that everything in our organisation is fucked and redundancies are coming means that there is definitely a need for the meeting. The morning tea takes place in our claustrophobic, panic-inducing excuse for a kitchen. I will have to skulk off the the library and be classed as a miserable bastard. Sleep deprivation and anxiety?! Wtf is going on at your work mate??? |
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 17, 2024 20:39:50 GMT
Fucking hell, had to take yesterday off due to sleep deprivation, anxiety and stress. Back in today and whoever used my desk has changed every possible setting to the chair, desk and monitor arms, and also left a load of fucking pubes behind. And now our team meeting has been turned into a morning tea with some weird partnering rule so we get an even amount of sweet and savoury food. Never mind the fact that everything in our organisation is fucked and redundancies are coming means that there is definitely a need for the meeting. The morning tea takes place in our claustrophobic, panic-inducing excuse for a kitchen. I will have to skulk off the the library and be classed as a miserable bastard. A load of fucking pubes?! Wtf is going on at your work mate??? |
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Post by Ulythium on Apr 17, 2024 20:40:37 GMT
All inane japery aside, that sounds really shitty, Lizard. Hope things start to look up for you soon. |
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Post by Vortex on Apr 17, 2024 20:42:16 GMT
Pubes everywhere? How many ex-Cex employees are at your work?
Limits the people to kill/maim if nothing else!
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Post by askew on Apr 17, 2024 20:50:05 GMT
Somebody going commando?
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Post by Trowel 🏴 on Apr 17, 2024 21:00:26 GMT
Free fruit, pizza, and pubes. That's the LinkedIn revival recruitment campaign right there.
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Post by Lizard on Apr 17, 2024 21:19:47 GMT
They were short and slightly curly, and that doesn't fit the profile of anyone's head hair here. I'm pretty sure they're beard hairs, but they're still pubes in my book. Quite a few of them.
Find out about redundancies in July. 3000 people already gone from the public sector in Wellington and the government's just heating up. It's to pay for tax breaks for higher earners and landlords, yay for them.
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Post by zisssou on Apr 18, 2024 7:44:13 GMT
I've found the exact 'perfect' role which is in a similar industry to what I'm in now, and comes with a bloody blue light card.
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Post by Dougs on Apr 18, 2024 10:57:13 GMT
Woop, discounts ahoy!
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Post by Vortex on Apr 18, 2024 11:43:48 GMT
Definitely jealous of the blue light discount perks, but definitely wouldn't want any of the main jobs that qualify you for it!
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Post by cubby on Apr 18, 2024 12:07:36 GMT
I've found the exact 'perfect' role which is in a similar industry to what I'm in now, and comes with a bloody blue light card. /looks at avatar Coastguard? |
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Post by Tomo on Apr 18, 2024 12:55:14 GMT
I've got a Blue Light Card and honestly most of the deals are voucher codes you can find equivalent ones of with a bit of googling. You're not missing out on much in the grand scheme of things.
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