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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!! |
warz65
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
Posts: 5 |  Posted: 2006-01-04 11:51
Give me your best! Who has the oddest, funniest, or most memorable story?
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warz65
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
Posts: 5 | Posted: 2006-01-06 15:31
I once had to fire a guy because he was hitting on his co-worker...he actually got her to approve his hours of 70+...that's how we discovered it and we fired the candidate (not sure about his boss)...
Also-I had a guy call in and say "hey, are u a headhunter?" and I said "yes." and he said "oh, cause right now im the one who's hunting...and im hunting for you...u r the one who is wearing the yellow shirt, correct?" and I was wearing a yellow shirt!!! Needless to say, nothing happened but Geez oh man!
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warz65
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
Posts: 5 | Posted: 2006-01-07 06:55
u know, i love how no one can write a simple 200 character length story...so this board is strictly for professionals who need quick solutions...we cant get a discussion going about some recruiting stories that are unique?
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taylorsmama
Joined: Jan 08, 2006
Posts: 3 | Posted: 2006-01-08 07:42
Okay -
I once had to fire a guy because he threatened to kill his supervisor and put him through the shredder. Fortunately it was an empty threat - done on line through e-mail and not delivered in person directly to the supervisor. None the less, when the e-mail was intercepted, the office of this international operation almost ground to a halt until I could have the offending employee removed. I invited him to come to my office immediately and relieved him of his duties.
Unfortuantely, I think the guy had suffered some kind of mental breakdown. After our severance meeting, he wandered out of my office and walked home. 13 MILES. I received a handwritten letter later - and his handwriting had changed drastically - into a juvenile scrawl. If you compared it to his original app - you never would have thought it was the same person. Poor guy!
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HRP
Joined: Dec 29, 2005
Posts: 42 | Posted: 2006-01-09 05:13
I interviewed someone who told me that their office did not have a computer, so she was required to do a lot of hand jobs. I think she meant she had to hand write things...
Or I had the guy who I had to press charges against because he threatened me b/c I did not give his daughter a job. His daughter was 50 and he was well over 70. He threatened me over the phone and then came limping in with his cane. He hit the clipboard outta the cops hands and we actually had to waste a day going to court where he was charged with "making terroristic threats'
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warz65
Joined: Jan 04, 2006
Posts: 5 | Posted: 2006-01-11 12:14
A guy showed up for the interview we set @ Ford. He was meeting my manager in the lobby and then my manager would direct the candidate into Ford's Interview room where he would leave the candidate with Ford hiring personnel. He was a Controls Engineer who knew Telemecanique (real old and out of style) very well...Ford needed these engineers to train their current Controls Engineers how to work on these new hand-me-down Telemecanique PLCs
...so my guy shows up wearing a button down untucked black shirt (top 2 buttons undone so his hair was sticking out of the shirt) with his long greasy black hair (like a rock star) and a pair of jeans (oh! and a gold horn for a necklace)...my boss said when he met the guy, he told him to clean himself up a little before meeting the managers (buttoning the shirt, tucking in, fix the hair a little, etc...)...well then my manager makes the intro and leaves the candidate there with the managers for the interview. He calls me RIGHT AWAY from the pkg lot and yells at me for not telling the candidate how to dress. Well, then Ford calls that afternoon with an offer (quickest offer to this day)...they said that they couldnt afford to lose him! Well 2 years later, my controls engineer is now a perm employee who has won so many awards from his group, that they are sending him to MI to meet with some of the big wigs...HA!
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vhawkes
Joined: Nov 11, 2005
Posts: 1 | Posted: 2006-01-12 07:40
I was doing group interviews. There was a gal that came in and was filling out an application. She took over an hour to fill out the app. I had my back to her and all of a sudden I heard snoring. I looked at her and with pen in hand had fallen dead asleep on the table. I first I thought she was dead!!
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kafenn
Joined: Sep 20, 2005
Posts: 7 | Posted: 2006-01-17 10:03
Wow! What great stories. That's why I like staffing...you never know what you're going to get!
At an agency I worked for in Atlanta in one week we had a woman come in to fill out an application and was so drunk the other candidates in the lobby were complaining that she smelled horribly of alcohol. In that same week I had a convicted first-degree murderer come in who just had his sentence commuted by the governor!
Never a dull moment!!
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nwilhelm31
Joined: May 28, 2005
Posts: 52 | Posted: 2006-01-18 13:59
Its not quite a recruiting story, but it is part of a selection process.
One job we were selecting for required that potential hires had to type out and print a one-page report to their manager. Very simple, just type out the report exactly as it was (with a few intentional spelling mistakes to see if they would use iniative to correct them or type them as they were), then they sent the letter for printing, then closed down their open files and documents. The applicants had 40 minutes to complete the test.
For one group, everyone in the group had completed the test and left the room, leaving one applicant. Curious as to why he was taking so long, I looked over his shoulder at his material and immediately stopped him. The man said he was typing a letter to his cousin. I was mind-boggled as to how the person could misinterpret the instructions, as were the rest of the selection staff. Needless to say, noone else had any problems interpretting the instructions and this person did not pass the selection process.
In another selection process, an applicant was asked why he wanted to apply for the position (working overseas). The man said that he had applied four times before but had always been turned down because his boss had said he was mentally unstable. I wonder why his boss suddenly approved the fifth attempt?
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pmast7
Joined: Sep 16, 2003
Posts: 11 | Posted: 2008-02-25 15:56
After sending this one guy to get a urinalysis drug screen. When the report came back, the good news was it was urine; the bad - it wasn't human.
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lda
Joined: Jul 10, 2007
Posts: 201 | Posted: 2008-02-27 12:02
I used to be a member of the school the thinks “why do personal reference checks, nobody’s going to put down someone who’ll give a bad reference”. This time the reference gave the usual high praise for the applicant and then laughed and added “just don’t get him mad”. When I asked why I was told (again laughingly) “well he’s got a little bit of a temper, but I think he’s got it pretty well under control now. He hasn’t hit anybody or anything like that… lately “. He then went on to tell all his good traits. This was for an HR position.
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sidlark
Joined: Feb 28, 2008
Posts: 1 | Posted: 2008-02-28 09:06
I used to work for a temp services company. We provided of a large number of call center employees to a client. I got a call from the call center lead asking us to remove one of our employees - she showed up to work wearing crotchless pajama bottoms. Ay yay yay!
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Matern
Joined: Feb 22, 2007
Posts: 1 | Posted: 2008-02-28 09:40
We hired a gal as receptionist who interviewed well. Tunred out to have schizophrenia. Later fell off the chair and filed for worker's comp. Turned out she was a regular scam artist-fell off many chairs! Our firm, lawyers for W.C. and her doctors got restraining orders to keep her from threatening them all. Now we do W.C. checks on new employees!
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helpme
Joined: Feb 28, 2008
Posts: 1 | Posted: 2008-02-28 10:48
I placed a temp with a 5-star hotel that I had been trying to get into for ages. On the first night he was there, he soiled himself and informed the General Manager that he had done so...this was a little hard to recover from
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foxwhite
Joined: Apr 10, 2003
Posts: 7 | Posted: 2008-02-28 11:09
First time as a rookie recruiter a manager came to our office for face-to-face interviews. My first candidate, who I had never met until the day of the interviews arrives wearing a hair piece but look OK. The manager arrived early and wanted to get the interviews going so i had no time to chat with the candidate pre-interview. well it lasted about all of 10 minutes....the manager escorted the candidate to the waiting room and then came to my desk. I could see the smile on his face a mile away. Turns out the candidate, when asked why he was leaving his current job, began a tirade against his current manager and the more he explained why he was leaving the more animated he got. Well needless to say the hairpiece started moving lower on his forehead, until it nearly touched his eyebrows. PS..candidate did not get the job 
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