Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Common Sense?

I had meant to blog about this yesterday but forgot about it until now. I caught up with one of my clients on Tuesday and during the visit I noticed that there was a new person in the admin team that my colleague had placed earlier. The previous candidate was a 19 yr old who had worked for the company before. He had a good track record his referees spoke highly of him; apparently he turned into an absolute diaster!

The role was suppose to be an ongoing contract, in the 2 weeks that he was there he managed to not show up to work twice with no call or explanation. When he was spoken to about this issue, he was fine for the next few days until one day he rocked up to work stoned. The final straw came when Friday was a mufti day and he showed up with jeans and no shirt on.

Go figure…

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

maybe the empreor's clothes were made from such fine silk you couldnt see them :)

Anonymous said...

what a fabulous outfit!

PiCkLeS said...

maybe we should introduce him to... could be that whirlwind romance? =P

Student154 said...

haha Mufti day, haven't heard that term since high school

PiCkLeS said...

It's so true! the world is a very small place and I'm a great believer that you must do the right thing by people.

Even in my experience a client once rejected a payroll candidate because when the candidate was 18 he worked at Hungry Jacks and quit with out giving a reason - he just up and left. Fast forward 8 years this same candidate applied to a role with a client who happened to be his Hungry Jacks manager all those yrs ago. The manager remebered his name and declined his application.