Chimpy Chompy on 9/4/2006 at 17:59
I'm quite glad a landed a decent job without bullshit like that. Although in my case it's a small firm of professional engineers, so a fairly bullshit-free scenario in the first place.
Does anyone here in the UK actually do this thank-you-note business?
Scots Taffer on 9/4/2006 at 21:31
I never send thank you notes.
I usually receive them for the blowjobs though.
mxleader on 9/4/2006 at 21:40
Why send a "thank you" card to a company that is just wanting to hire more minions to subjugate and mentally destroy? Half of the recruiters just do interviews in order to justify their own jobs without ever hiring anyone. Besides, who really wants to work anyway? Why would I want to thank someone that puts me through a grueling several hour long interview just to end up hiring some other poor smuck who was just as desparate to work for some coporate juggernaut that probably works hard to destroy smaller companies and the enviroment in order to make the investors "happy?"
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fett on 10/4/2006 at 02:40
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I usually receive them for the blowjobs though.
Mine's in the mail dude. Sorry so late.
Renault on 10/4/2006 at 03:25
Quote Posted by mxleader
Why send a "thank you" card to a company that is just wanting to hire more minions to subjugate and mentally destroy? Half of the recruiters just do interviews in order to justify their own jobs without ever hiring anyone. Besides, who really wants to work anyway? Why would I want to thank someone that puts me through a grueling several hour long interview just to end up hiring some other poor smuck who was just as desparate to work for some coporate juggernaut that probably works hard to destroy smaller companies and the enviroment in order to make the investors "happy?"
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Ooh, such angst. The world just sucks, don't it? Maybe you should find a cabin out in the woods somewhere to retreat to and build bombs.
metal dawn on 10/4/2006 at 03:37
^^^^^^
gb2canada
Quote Posted by Brother Renault
Maybe you should find a cabin out in the woods somewhere to retreat to and build bombs.
...and send the bombs in thank you notes?
mxleader on 10/4/2006 at 04:47
Brother Renault- I would but those new mass produced, by big corporations, log cabins aren't big enough and I would start to feel claustrophobic and go nuts!!! :cheeky:
demagogue on 10/4/2006 at 05:24
As someone said before, I think it depends on profession.
But in lawschool, I think it's more or less true, at least for firms.
There is a whole machine. You are supposed to sign up to interview with 30+ firms during "early interview week", and for each follow up interview you are expected to send a thank you letter, and the career office people take it all very seriously. They'll make you feel paranoid about every little loose hair and wrinkle in your shirt.
But then you start interviewing and you see the firms make you paranoid, too, because you have to differentiate yourself from the other 40 people they are interviewing for 2 spots and you can *see* them paying attention to that stupid shit ... because they put you in situations where you have to show it. So everyone walks around with this stupid fake smile all week and sunshine coming out their asses and a thank you letters flying off their fingers thanking them from the heavens for choosing them for a 2nd round of interviewing and listening to them and god knows what else. It's completely TRUE. I personally found it hard to hide my cynicism at the whole stupid process. It's really nauseating. But you'll see me smiling with the best of them when I have to.
Ultraviolet on 10/4/2006 at 06:06
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But can I say so in a letter to a potential new boss? Should I write that I can manage a boring job for the sake of a higher pay, corporate procedures, and free flights? I don't think so.
"The biggest attraction to this job is that I've heard a lot of talk about your spectacular working conditions and that few on-the-job expenses are spared, and I believe this would enhance my job satisfaction greatly over my current employer."
Shayde on 10/4/2006 at 06:32
Part of my job is reviewing the CV's when we open up for a new job, just basically sifting into the 'A' pile, the 'B' pile and the 'no-way-in-hell' pile.
Last week I read through 250 CV's all for one job. I assure you when the dumbasses started sending thank you notes and addendums and query emails it just made my life more difficult and made me less inclined to put them in the A pile.
