Re: Job Hunting Stories

Subject: Re: Job Hunting Stories
From: Peter <pnewman1 -at- home -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 18:19:16 -0400


Richard Lippincott wrote:
>
<snip>
> And a week or two after that...yet -another- interview. Yep, more questions
> about even -different- circumstances. Hey, I may be slow, but by now it was
> obvious they were just dragging me in to mine for information. I doubted
> that they had any intent to hire me, but they knew I had expert data in a
> field that they suddenly badly needed.
>
> Around this time, I got a job offer from another company, and accepted it.
>
> I couldn't resist, I fired off a letter to the president of the data miners,
> saying in essence "I'm writing to help you out with your decision process,
> I've accepted an offer from another company and should no longer be
> considered a candidate for employment with your firm. Their entire decision
> and offer process took less time than the four interviews I've done with
> you. You told me that employees of my company appear to be 'underworked and
> overpaid,' I suggest that's an illusion caused by the fact that when we do a
> job we only have do to it once in order to get it right."

I once had one where they were testing me with real work. I told them
that I wanted to be paid for my time whether or not I was hired. They
never called me back and I have no regrets about that.

--
Peter

"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a
minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-and it's
longer than any hour. That's relativity,"
- Einstein-

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