Be careful who you swear at on the train.

Hagar · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:14

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-31538480

Tl:dr

Man gets sworn at on morning commute, later in day doing interviews, the person swearing turns up for his.

scorza · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:15

I'm with the guy who swore at the HR bloke - he looks like a right ****, and he works in HR, so obviously is a **** too. If any further proof were needed, he appears to be called El Satanico on Twitter.

Haggisman · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:25

What a wasted opportunity

If I were the interviewer I would have enjoyed a nice long drawn out conversation with the guy afterwards, explaining how well he interviewed, how he ticked all the boxes, was perfect for the job, was just what we'd been looking for, etc. etc.

Then after about 10 minutes of convincing him he'd got the job, told him the only reason he didn't was because of the incident, and maybe he should consider going and <expletive deleted> himself.

lemonade · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:29

I would have sworn at him again in the interview.

Diddums · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:42

Buckland stepped away briefly to tell his Twitter followers about it and went back into the interview room.

How professional. The guy might have sworn at him but Buckland sounds like a right bell end.

valkia · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:47

Would be interesting if it was the other way around ^_^

dowie · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:58

doesn't seem unreasonable - he gave the guy a shot regardless:

At this point the interviewee still hadn't made the connection. "It was totally awkward," says Buckland. "So I approached it by asking him if he'd had a good commute that morning. We laughed it off and in a very British way I somehow ended up apologising."
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So did the applicant get the job? In a word, no. "As it worked out, he wasn't right for the role," says Buckland. "The job is still open." But he's quick to stress that the applicant's lack of success wasn't because of the rude encounter.

scorza · 20 Feb 2015 at 12:59

dowie said:
doesn't seem unreasonable - he gave the guy a shot regardless:

Of course he did.

dowie · 20 Feb 2015 at 13:03

then again looking at the job - WTF would someone with decent experience take this job for:

http://forward-partners.workable.com/jobs/30773

you'd need some hefty incentives

Ideally, you'll comfortable making architectural choices and enjoy getting your hands dirty. You'll own every stage of coding, testing and deployment. You’ll advise on the appropriate tech stack and agile methodologies suited to the stage of the development.

When we work with single founders we are often working completely from scratch, some may only have a landing page, some may already have a thriving e-commerce business, some may have an app that already has thousands of users, both the variety and challenge is endless.

so someone comes up with the idea and the 'python developer' at the VC firm is supposed to guide and implement most of it - presumably the person doing that would require some hefty equity stake if they were actually a member of the start up but in this case I'd presume the 'entrepreneur' who may only have an idea/landing page and the VC fund will be taking the lions share.... at face value it sounds like a good way to get screwed

shadow_boxer · 20 Feb 2015 at 13:04

To me it seemed like he handled it pretty well. I could see myself fuming and raging at him!

russell664 · 20 Feb 2015 at 13:05

^ As the above, I think it was handled well too, well at least better than I would have dealt with it.

Cosimo · 20 Feb 2015 at 13:10

Expecting a headbutt at the interview but he handled it very well.

antijoke · 20 Feb 2015 at 13:13

Didn't have any influence over his decision?

Yeah right.

Third Opinion · 20 Feb 2015 at 13:52

Reminds me of when I did a five finger fist jester at a guy who was flashing and glued to my butt on the M25 during roadworks.

I was thinking flash obnoxious idiot in his Porsche. Turned out to be the regional director of a company I worked for.

I spent 5 years avoiding him and was pretty sure he didn't recognize me. On the day I left he admitted he recognized me from the beginning and had discussed the matter with my boss the morning it happened.

El Pew · 20 Feb 2015 at 14:07

What are the chances that this is one of those completely made up stories designed by a PR agency to get "Forward Partners" some free advertising on the BBC? Pretty high, I'd say.

mrk · 20 Feb 2015 at 14:17

So many negative nancys about!

randal · 20 Feb 2015 at 14:20

Third Opinion said:
Reminds me of when I did a five finger fist jester at a guy who was flashing and glued to my butt on the M25 during roadworks.

I was thinking flash obnoxious idiot in his Porsche. Turned out to be the regional director of a company I worked for.

I spent 5 years avoiding him and was pretty sure he didn't recognize me. On the day I left he admitted he recognized me from the beginning and had discussed the matter with my boss the morning it happened.

LOL, that got a proper chuckle out of me.

5 years!

misteranonimous · 20 Feb 2015 at 14:30

That guy probably won't be swearing at random people from now on, lol.

agnes · 20 Feb 2015 at 14:39

El Pew said:
What are the chances that this is one of those completely made up stories designed by a PR agency to get "Forward Partners" some free advertising on the BBC? Pretty high, I'd say.

That's a pretty far fetched thought.

wordy · 20 Feb 2015 at 14:41

he's quick to stress that the applicant's lack of success wasn't because of the rude encounter.

No of course it wasn't.