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On Wed, 8 May 2002 17:36:32 -0700, "S Ryan" <sryan -at- sryan -dot- com>
wrote:
>... I'd certainly give the manager the benefit of the doubt,
>but I don't want to work for anyone who thinks this sort
>of technique really is a Good Idea. But I'm still puzzled.
>Does anybody have any idea what these people are
>thinking? Has this happened to you?
Well, in my ONLY interview, by phone, in three months (about 4 resumes sent out every day, and good friends who know I can do the work PROMISING they will have a place for me since February...)
The HR person, whom I will call Melissa, and the Manager, Debbie, and I played phone tag for three days. They sounded like they were VERY interested in me. I finally got hold of Debbie, who told me to talk with Melissa.
I got hold of Melissa, and she immediately got beeped and said she had to put me on hold for a sec. When she got back on the phone, she sounded significantly less interested in me and gave me a lecture about how Debbie was the project manager and my skills were similar to Debbie's and they weren't in the market to replace Debbie and that I would have to WORK FOR Debbie. Anyway, she went on and on for about five minutes and that was it.
When I submitted my resume in response to a job posting, I had not known that Debbie might be feeling -- threatened -- in her current position. But now, I do.
My ONLY interview since I started looking in March.
And I am a really, really, really GOOD C/C++ Programmer, one who really LIKES and APPRECIATES pointers and all the other evil capabilities that C provides. No C#. But XML, lots and lots and lots of XML.
--Emily
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