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Yourself
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This!
Even he/she/they wouldn't moan about it
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Cool story bro.
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Not exactly hard to blag a low paying job that will turf you out if you suck. Almost all of the earnings are tied to OTE.
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Could be worse, you could've scuppered your chances by politely pointing out all the spelling and grammatical errors in the advert that landed you an interview. How the hell are you to know that the bloke in front of you was the one who actually wrote it?
Absolute BS. As a recruiter myself I have never seen the market busier. (IT Recruiter, software engineering contract)
Plus I get the hate for recruiters in general, but we're not all the same.
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*sHwo0sh*
The one and only response to them should have been "Check yourself before you wreck yourself"
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Agree. I was on the edge of my seat with excitement.
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Not gangsta enough I'm afraid
Ha!
Eew! Nails on blackboard to me.
I made a classic mistake years ago when my wife was trying to teach her dolt of a brother how to spell a word.
She said Haych, and I couldn’t stop myself, I said, “It’s not haytch, it’s aitch.”
She shot back “********”, (similar to rowlocks), and said, “Did I get that one right?”
Hmmm I tend to disagree. I have a friend as a high level head hunter and he has shut his business for two months and taken himself off to the sun as he says its pointless at the moment.
Maybe at the top of the tree where there are less positions he is struggling. My company across all sectors (Legal, Life Sciences, Technology, Business Transformation) have never been busier. We are crying out for candidates for the abundance of jobs that we have on - it's honestly busier than I have ever seen it in 7 years of recruitment.
Oh dont get me wrong, he says he has never been busier with corporations wanting him to find people, its just there aren't people out there or the corporations aren't yet desperate enough to pay the eye watering salaries that people want to jump ship.
hence he says he's wasting his time atm and decided to take a two month break. Like you he was crying out for candidates.
Ah, thats slightly different my point was that there are lots of jobs in the UK at the moment. We are filling them though, I think my team of 5 people have placed well over 200 people this year so far. It just takes more effort to find them. Our main problem is IR35 as it has really changed the market.
On the subject of “Yourself”, but at a distinct tangent to the thread, I arrived at a vacation home in Florida once with my wife and another couple that we knew very well from using the same pub for years.
Mickey and I dropped the wives and left them to unpack while we drove off into the night in search of a bar.
It didn’t take long to find one and Mickey, who’d never been to the U.S. before, went to the bar to order.
He asked for a beer, then went through a rigmarole while the barmaid established what beer he’d like, then he ordered me a vodka and tonic, barmaid said, “That’ll be $X and X cents.”
Mickey said, “Yourself?”
Barmaid looked puzzled and said, “Excuse me?”
Undeterred, Mickey abridged it to “Self?”
I chipped in with “Give her a $3.00 tip Mick, she’ll be content with that.”
I then quietly explained to the barmaid the London, and maybe elsewhere in U.K., habit of offering the bartender a drink by saying, “Yourself”, meaning have one yourself.
She giggled, “Never heard of that one.”
But Mickey wasn’t finished establishing giving transatlantic language lessons, he asked her, “Got any fags here?”
I put one hand to my forehead and just gazed at my drink.
Mickey and I dropped the wives and left them to unpack while we drove off into the night in search of a bar.
It didn’t take long to find one and Mickey, who’d never been to the U.S. before, went to the bar to order.
He asked for a beer, then went through a rigmarole while the barmaid established what beer he’d like, then he ordered me a vodka and tonic, barmaid said, “That’ll be $X and X cents.”
Mickey said, “Yourself?”
Barmaid looked puzzled and said, “Excuse me?”
Undeterred, Mickey abridged it to “Self?”
I chipped in with “Give her a $3.00 tip Mick, she’ll be content with that.”
I then quietly explained to the barmaid the London, and maybe elsewhere in U.K., habit of offering the bartender a drink by saying, “Yourself”, meaning have one yourself.
She giggled, “Never heard of that one.”
But Mickey wasn’t finished establishing giving transatlantic language lessons, he asked her, “Got any fags here?”
I put one hand to my forehead and just gazed at my drink.