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So the USA of Uncle Sam of Americuh is the land of opportunity?

Over here in Englandland, Europe, there's a rising tide of unrealistic expectations.

As we keep bleating on about citizens' rights (I'm not a citizen Mr Bliar, I'm a Subject. We're not an fUcking republic yet you ****), more and more people demand their rights to exercise skills and abilities they just don't have.

I've been interviewing recently, and encounter trolls who can barely string a sentence together. We have two cut-offs:
1 - Are they appointable?
2 - If so, are they the best candidate?

It's those who fail the first criterion that give the most grief. Some clearly lack the literacy and numeracy described in the Job Description.

E.g. When the JD says "Must have excellent IT skills, particularly with MS Office Applications" and "Must have strong presentation skills as the role involves delivering presentations to large audiences of IT and Medical professionals", how smart is it to insist on using acetates and an OHP and refusing to use PowerPoint and an LCD Projector at the interview?

Looking at Hellboy's thread, some people (thank Bob) have manual skills instead of intellectual ones, but sadly still aspire to cerebral employment.

I'm not very physically strong, and sh'it at engineering. So I don't apply for jobs as a mechanic then scream bloody injustice when I don't get the job.

I feel better now.

My favorite interview ever is when I was testing a potential medical interpreter (ER, no less). He was the brother of one of my very best, so I was hoping to give him the job. He came in looking nice enough, but his resumé was riddled with typos. This is normally it for me, but we are taught not to have a line in the sand when interviewing, so I ploughed ahead.

Found out he lived in Mexico until two months ago, only interpreted for a month, never in person, only on the phone. I knew he would likely not be suited for the ER, but I decided to test his skills to see if maybe he was a fantastic Interpreter who just happened to lack live experience. When doing a quick overview of terms, and I said to him in spanish "Vejiga" (bladder). He promptly, and enthusiastically said, "******!"


It was all my Manager and I could do to keep from bursting out in audible laughter. When I calmly informed him of his mistake, he turned bright red and I think we both knew it was over.

Edited, Aug 25th 2006 at 1:56pm EDT by Atomicflea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkj4Wm6INFY

A goooooood niiiiiiiigggghhhhtttt a-ding-ding-ding-ding

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TOO LATE!!

curse him out in that really fast Spanish!! I love that!!

I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition

Acetate film for an overhead projector instead of using Powerpoint.

Personally, I'd rather have the overhead used. No one ever tried to jazz up a presentation by animating all the text on their acetates.

Yeah but jazzing it up means you care.

Thanks for the reinforcement.

tu tiene nada en la cabeza.