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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/6/2006 10:31 AM EST
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Posts: 5
First: 1/4/2006 Last: 1/11/2006 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/7/2006 1:55 AM EST
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Posts: 5
First: 1/4/2006 Last: 1/11/2006 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/8/2006 2:42 AM EST
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Posts: 3
First: 1/8/2006 Last: 1/8/2006 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/9/2006 12:13 AM EST
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Posts: 42
First: 12/29/2005 Last: 1/11/2007 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/11/2006 7:14 AM EST
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Posts: 5
First: 1/4/2006 Last: 1/11/2006 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/12/2006 2:40 AM EST
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Posts: 1
First: 1/12/2006 Last: 1/12/2006 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/17/2006 5:03 AM EST
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Posts: 7
First: 9/20/2005 Last: 1/17/2006 |
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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HORROR/COMEDY STORIES in Staffing!!!!!!
posted at 1/18/2006 8:59 AM EST
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Posts: 52
First: 5/28/2005 Last: 12/4/2007 |
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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