I start work at Paychex in a couple of weeks, and one of the things that came up in the interview was that they do J2EE/EJB/JSP on JBoss, something which I’ve never done before. Since I don’t want to appear like a doofus when I get there, I started reading up on them, and discovered that J2EE has changed significantly between J2EE 1.4 and JEE 5 (yes, another one of Sun’s stupid-ass switcheroos in the naming convention - JEE 5 actually is the version right after J2EE 1.4), and I didn’t want to study the wrong one. So I asked Sally at Adecco, my recruiter, for the email address of somebody technical at Paychex I could ask. And being a recruiter, of course instead of giving me an email address, she gave me a phone number, without telling me whose number it was.
So I called it, and got a very irate Head of IT. Irate because I called him, irate because I couldn’t remember who had interviewed me, irate because I didn’t know who I’d be working for, and just generally irate. I apologized and said I’d get my recruiter to give me a more appropriate phone number, but he said he’d get somebody to call me, and he sounded even more irate as he said so. So I’m really winning friends and influencing people there before I start. So thanks a lot, Sally, once again Adecco has managed to fuck up my life.
Vicki says:
IT guys are always irate. It’s a job requirement.
Can you ask for a new pimp, though? Although I suppose she’s the one who’s interfacing for this particular position. Have you become irate yourself and let her know that she messed up?
October 20, 2008, 16:55 GMTJen says:
Sounds like the head of IT there may just be a fuck-up himself if he truly got irate over that. Doesn’t bode well for how he treats his staff.
October 20, 2008, 18:12 GMTTotty says:
I really do not understand how it is adecco’s fault that _you_ did not write down the name of the person who had interviewed you.
I really do not understand how it is adecco’s fault that _you_ did not ask “whose phone number is this”.
No, I’m not employed by adecco, and I do _not_ like them, but you are putting blame on others when its your very own fault.
October 25, 2008, 17:58 GMTPaul Tomblin says:
Why should I have written down the name of the person who interviewed me? Is that a normal question to ask somebody who wants to know what version of JBoss you use? And where did I say I blamed Adecco for that? And by the way, when I got the phone number from Adecoo, I *did* ask who it was for, and she said it was for Joan “somebody”, so I was pretty confused when I got a guy named Dan. So yeah, I am blaming Adecco for that, and I’m not accepting your attempt to deflect the blame on me.
October 25, 2008, 18:55 GMT