This posting comes amidst a joke of an "interview" I experienced today so let me tell you all about it as I'm sure you've heard it before or maybe even experienced it yourself...
I had an interview for a certain car delivery company based up in the North East of the UK and was looking forward to this so much because it sounded like the sort of job that would be a complete change from the rigmarole of the 9 to 5 garbage I've done in the past as I would be expected to deliver cars from one place to another.
Now (as I like to say when about to raise a contentious point!), I was originally led to believe the job was good for forty hours per week at a rate of £6.31 or as we Brits know it; NMW.
So far, so good right as I'm on benefits now and can't wait to stand upon my own two feet again, unlike the "benefits culture" that's running rampant throughout the UK economy at the moment and making us genuine people who really want to work, look bad. As you know by now, I fight injustice at every turn and sometimes push things too far (especially with my words now my Larry David-esque attitude of say what you think and don't hide it has bedded into place!) but only because I want to, like most people, make good win out in the end.
I turn up in plenty of time for the interview in Ashton and managed to find the place no problemo having already some prior knowledge of the town centre.
So far, still good!
I tell them I'm here about the driving job and am told to sign in so I'm all there now with no turning back...
Or is there??
She tells us that there's going to be a little briefing to run over the job details again and this is where it starts to fall to pieces.
- Nobody from the company has even bothered to turn up to represent their business, which in my mind is a serious, serious faux-pas when it comes to recruiting potential new staff; and
- The woman was clearly out of her depth (having been called upon to do them what seems last minute) because perfectly ordinary questions that did not come out of left field, seemed to catch her out and force her to go on the defensive with a "what we tell you is what the job is", no options open for discussion attitude
Let me pick on some more specific points, the fact that they expect you to ferry yourself around the country for NMW with no incentive if you're on a particularly long haul trip, say, to London to drop off a car and back is a joke!
Why would I want to work for a company that pays me peanuts and offers me nothing, nothing in the way of a carrot (or in some cases, a gold painted bedpost!) to make me want to do my damnedest? When I do my damnedest, things happen, sh-well let's just say it gets real!
Now, I'm not the sort that doesn't pull his weight in whatever he does, I give 110% when I work (hence how I became so awesome in the first place, bro's!:-P) because I know that the rewards I get are not just going to be in this life, but also the one to come.
It's the only way to be, bro's and I don't regret that lifestyle choice one bit!
No mention either is made of just how much contribution there is towards petrol or even if the cars themselves have enough petrol to get them where they are needed and it was at this point that my gut instinct started warning me to "watch out, shysters about!" and when that happens I always learn to trust it because it is always, always right!
It's common sense to say to someone "look, we need this car to be in London by 8am tomorrow morning, so because of your early start we're willing to offer you x, y & z in response", which is the least I expect because I work to live not the other way around, pendejos!
Incentives, incentives, incentives!!!
I'm not saying I'm all about the money, that much I am not telling you, because there are OTHER ways to reward your staff. Take LBM for instance who, when I worked there a couple of years ago, offered their staff raffle tickets for things like an XBOX 360, a PS3, a new phone etc... so there was incentive to sell, sell, sell in the run up to Christmas, which is what I liked because it made me try that bit harder to do as well as I could!
So far, it's a no-show from company representatives, a representative from the agency who knows nowt about the role in that once pressed on a point would not elaborate sufficiently and basically stone-walled anyone who raised a point further to what was "written in the job description", the company itself runs on a bull***t "tell you the night before what your jobs are the following day" modus operandi (which is shoddy and reminds me of the crap the IRT guys have to put up with) and the hours changing on you from job description to interview.
Finally, the first thing I am asked, I sh-kid you not, is "on a scale of 1 to 10, how much do you want this job?".
It's backfired on them, I hope it has and I hope it makes them see that they screwed up, they screwed up big time!!!
I told her flat out that until just recently, a 3, which quickly made her end the interview as she realised that, like all the people before me, she was wasting her time with me!
I don't have to tolerate that, sucka!!!
I'm elevated well above my station when I say this but I don't care anymore; when I apply for a job, I expect the job description to remain the same no matter what stage of the recruitment process I'm at, not to be told that it's 40 hours and would I like to apply and turn up for the day and say they're only willing to guarantee for thirty!
WHAT DO I LOOK LIKE TO YOU???
As you can imagine right now, I am fuming because I feel like I've been led a merry dance, stabbed in the back and laid down on a bed of nails being told to sleep it off!
What do I intend to do about it?
I intend on, when I see Lee (my advisor I'm due to see on Wednesday), telling him that I did not refuse the job because I'm a lazy ar$e who wants nothing but to sit on his ar$e all day playing Halo, but simply refused it because the company I would be working for shifted the goalposts before I'd even started!
How can you trust a company that does that to you enough to sign a god-da... a contract with them?? What's to say they won't do it again after you start? Companies like that are best avoided!
They don't want to set up a sister site in the Greater Manchester area, they want to hire drivers in the Greater Manchester, treat them like garbage and expect them to bend over and be happy about it!
I'm telling you the idiocy of some people clearly shows that they'll expect people to be that desperate that they'll be willing to do anything to take a job... well I'm not! I have standards and I don't breach them!
Whew, that's quite some rant tonight, isn't it?
I hope you can take some comfort from the fact that, despite all of this, I know that the power of my words is going to be key over the next few days. I am not going to kick myself for rejecting the job before I'd even been offered it. I tell you I am that confident, I know that based on the sheer number of people that turned it down before me, I would definitely have been in the running for it!
So you think I'm an idiot for turning down what would have been a shoe-in??? What do you know (I jest, for you know enough to read my blog and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for it, because you make it worthwhile!)?!
Yes, I do think even now "did I do the right thing?" but I've sought counsel from my parents and my God about this whole thing and I am doing right in rejecting it because what I'd be spending on petrol, what I wouldn't be getting back from them in terms of incentives for doing a damn good job, just would not make coming off benefits worthwhile for me.
I hate saying that because that sounds like I want to be a sponge off the state!
HELL'S NO!!!
I've become super independent my whole life, I've had to because until now, past "friends" have shunned me to the point where I don't go around seeking their approval anymore and in fact just don't care what anyone and I mean anyone thinks of me!
So who do I look out for? Well I quote "Scarface" at this point: -
There are only two people I can count on in this world, which is sad, but true, to say; God and me!
He's gonna lead me through this, I know that much with all my heart and I am clearly to learn something from this experience and I know that one of the things is be careful what you read because you may just have misread it and not known it.
Remember that, bro's, the next time you're set up for a fall that it's not always as bad as it seems and that the day will just dawn all the brighter tomorrow because you narrowly escaped a chance to ruin your circumstances!
Your words have immense power, so don't speak negatively over yourself all the time, speak POSITIVELY and watch what happens, you'll start to see opportunities come your way more than ever before!
Peace out, bro's!
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