What I want to know is, when you're applying for a job shovelling chips into paper bags or putting tins of beans on shelves and they ask you why you want to work for McDonalds/Sainsburys - surely they know as well as you do that the answer is "I can't get anything else, I need some money, and you've got a vacancy". So why do we play this game of pretending it's some kind of career ambition at interview?
Being autistic, when I first interviewed for a Saturday job at Clarks I answered the question honestly but was still appointed.
I wonder if that would happen today?
Mind you, biggest challenge mine are facing trying to get McJobs or similar is even getting interviews. They fill in the online forms and never hear a thing. Try any other approach and you just get told to fill in the online forms.
I once applied for a Christmas job at WH Smiths, and was asked what my greatest achievement was. I said it was learning to swordfight, which had done wonders for my self confidence!
Surprisingly, I didn't get the job!
I once applied for a Christmas job at WH Smiths, and was asked what my greatest achievement was. I said it was learning to swordfight, which had done wonders for my self confidence!
Surprisingly, I didn't get the job!
"... and I'm very good with rolled-up newspapers too!", perhaps?
I saw it a lot in IT jobs but this is the first time I've seen it in the education field (private school).
Not hellish, but bemusing. For an education role one of the perks listed in the summary was "Exclusive access to our app"! I know I'm 48 but app access doesn't seem that interesting to me. Oddly it wasn't mentioned at all in the full advert.
Webforms that you have to fill in where one of the boxes you have to tick turns out to reference something you won't encounter until you get the induction... but you have to tick it to get the form to submit!
Sandemaniac: I teach my subject area (amongst others) to ICT platform and application developer trainees. They're sometimes a bit shortsighted in terms of customer-friendly designs.
TICTH - Citroen, and their poor communication concerning the current airbag problem
We have one of those cars with the dodgy Takata airbags. We were notified a couple of weeks ago that there is a Safety Recall on certain models, including ours, and that we have to get new airbags fitted.
Then, a couple of days ago we got a DoNotDrive letter, saying that the car is unsafe and that it should not be driven until after the new airbags are fitted. Presumably that invalidates our insurance until that time.
Our appointment is three weeks away but we are not heavily dependent on the car, so this is not such a hardship as it will be to many drivers, but our current concern is that we cannot get an answer to the question of how we get the car to the dealership to be fixed. It is an hour's drive away on the other side of the nearby city.
And, if we were to take the risk and drive it there, who is responsible if it blows up en route, causing injury, death & mayhem in the city`?
Surely if they've told you not to drive it (and, as you say, probably invalidating your insurance), they should have to send a tow-truck to pick it up?
One would hope so, but we have not been told that - the DoNotDrive letter doesn't mention it. We have left a couple of messages with the dealership that is to do the job, but have had no reply.
I expect they are busy, 120,000 drivers are affected in the UK (although presumably not all booked in locally).
TICTH scam websites that fuck over small businesses in the process. I’ll probably get my money back because I paid by credit card, but the poor bloke who runs the business that has had its identity stolen is getting five calls a day of people chasing orders he knows nothing about for products he doesn’t sell. He says he has reported to the police and google, and I can see from the business’ genuine Facebook page that other would be customers have reported to Action Fraud weeks ago, but the site is still up.
Our local bin men. Several weeks ago, I applied to the County Council for new recycling bins (I have no idea what happened to the original ones, which were missing when I arrived). The advice from the council was to put the recycling out anyway, and it would be taken. Well, that worked once, and another time I had to run after the bin lorry with my food waste, and today they've missed me again.
So it's complaint email to the Council time, pointing out that I just want new recycling bins before my house overflows!
I ordered some jewellery from E Bay, and got a couple of messages over the weekend to say it would be delivered today. I had a look at my emails this afternoon, and for reasons unknown, it was sent to the Leven delivery office (in Fife - the other side of Edinburgh!) by mistake. They said it was being re-routed and offered a link for me to track its journey - probably via North Utsire, Channel Lightvessel and the Isle of Man ...
I regularly find myself vexed by delivery tracking. RM is generally pretty good, but all others are a crapshoot, with delivery notifications (even in good whether with reliable ferries) telling me parcels have been delivered anywhere from 3 days before to the next working day after they've turned up in the porch. Case in point: 6 parcels comprising 3 consignments turned up on Saturday. According to the email notifications they turned up around lunchtime today (Monday), having previously dropped off the radar on Wednesday.
Grrr! Discord! I belong to several discussion forums on Discord, and over the last few days I've found myself shut out of the NSFW areas until I pass an age verification test. I wasn't going to bother until I realised that this included one of my favourite threads in one of the Good Omens servers.
Turns out they want you to take a selfie while holding photo ID with your date of birth clearly visible, and a piece of paper with your Discord name on it (how many hands do they think you have?).
Well, I managed it in the end, and now I'm just waiting to hear back.
I suppose it's my own fault for going on forums that have a lot of teenagers on them!
Waterstones seem particularly bad at delivery tracking. I get an e-mail telling me that the book has just left London and should be in Darkest Aberdeenshire within a couple of hours.
Adding British Gas to my list of society offenders who never will be missed.
They provided the electricity for my new home when I moved in, and I wanted to change to the supplier I had at my old home. I found it difficult to find a place on the BG website to tell them this, and now every time I get in touch with them I have to go through a "we're sorry you're leaving. How can we persuade you to stay?" message.
At this stage, it smacks of desperation, especially since, at the same time, they are trying to charge me for the year when the house was empty, and I had nothing to do with it (the trustees of the charity have been trying to sort this out for a couple of months without success).
And then there was the phone call this morning - trying to get me to stay as a customer again - in which the young man tried to persuade me that British Gas was far greener, with more renewable energy than Good Energy, but they were "saving the planet in secret", and if I wanted to talk to someone about my account, I could use their Chatbot.
No, thank you - with Good Energy I can talk to a real person who is actually helpful.
Honestly, the time when I never have to deal with British Gas again can't come soon enough!
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Yep.
Surprisingly, I didn't get the job!
"... and I'm very good with rolled-up newspapers too!", perhaps?
"What is your expected salary for this role?"
I saw it a lot in IT jobs but this is the first time I've seen it in the education field (private school).
Not hellish, but bemusing. For an education role one of the perks listed in the summary was "Exclusive access to our app"! I know I'm 48 but app access doesn't seem that interesting to me. Oddly it wasn't mentioned at all in the full advert.
Sorry to hear of your struggle.
We have one of those cars with the dodgy Takata airbags. We were notified a couple of weeks ago that there is a Safety Recall on certain models, including ours, and that we have to get new airbags fitted.
Then, a couple of days ago we got a DoNotDrive letter, saying that the car is unsafe and that it should not be driven until after the new airbags are fitted. Presumably that invalidates our insurance until that time.
Our appointment is three weeks away but we are not heavily dependent on the car, so this is not such a hardship as it will be to many drivers, but our current concern is that we cannot get an answer to the question of how we get the car to the dealership to be fixed. It is an hour's drive away on the other side of the nearby city.
And, if we were to take the risk and drive it there, who is responsible if it blows up en route, causing injury, death & mayhem in the city`?
I expect they are busy, 120,000 drivers are affected in the UK (although presumably not all booked in locally).
So it's complaint email to the Council time, pointing out that I just want new recycling bins before my house overflows!
I ordered some jewellery from E Bay, and got a couple of messages over the weekend to say it would be delivered today. I had a look at my emails this afternoon, and for reasons unknown, it was sent to the Leven delivery office (in Fife - the other side of Edinburgh!) by mistake. They said it was being re-routed and offered a link for me to track its journey - probably via North Utsire, Channel Lightvessel and the Isle of Man ...
Turns out they want you to take a selfie while holding photo ID with your date of birth clearly visible, and a piece of paper with your Discord name on it (how many hands do they think you have?).
Well, I managed it in the end, and now I'm just waiting to hear back.
I suppose it's my own fault for going on forums that have a lot of teenagers on them!
They provided the electricity for my new home when I moved in, and I wanted to change to the supplier I had at my old home. I found it difficult to find a place on the BG website to tell them this, and now every time I get in touch with them I have to go through a "we're sorry you're leaving. How can we persuade you to stay?" message.
At this stage, it smacks of desperation, especially since, at the same time, they are trying to charge me for the year when the house was empty, and I had nothing to do with it (the trustees of the charity have been trying to sort this out for a couple of months without success).
And then there was the phone call this morning - trying to get me to stay as a customer again - in which the young man tried to persuade me that British Gas was far greener, with more renewable energy than Good Energy, but they were "saving the planet in secret", and if I wanted to talk to someone about my account, I could use their Chatbot.
No, thank you - with Good Energy I can talk to a real person who is actually helpful.
Honestly, the time when I never have to deal with British Gas again can't come soon enough!