Have you ever had a strange conversation with a recruitment agent?

Agent: We have this opening in a company called YYgstsyuYoMamma%%%YY. I saw your profile online, your skills are exactly what they are looking for.

Me: Sorry, I don't know where you got that profile from, but I don't need a job. I'm working for myself since July 2019.
Agent: Oh that's cool. If you ever change your mind, please call me back.

I don't know what he meant by change my mind. Like abandon my project and join the dingy little company he was talking about?

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Vivaci

Same!! I get calls saying they found my resume on [i]their [/i]job website. When I tell them, I haven’t applied for one, and ask them the name of their job website, they hang up! 😂

SW-User

@Vivaci If you talk to them, you’d know they have absolutely no idea. Some of them think you can crack technical interviews just by talking shit.

Vivaci

Haha!! Oh wow...really? 🤷‍♀️

There are some who get hired by pulling some references and then they just can’t meet deadlines and work on demanding projects, but need the salary. I mean I wonder how such people get hired in the first place?🤨 @SW-User

SW-User

@Vivaci My organization is small, I only have 30 employees all licensed to work on power systems. They all went through real life problems. Like the electrician who’d work on a circuit breaker, we mocked several faults for him without the hazards. The engineers have to go through hell of a time.

And managers? No we didn’t hire managers. I believe this area of work needs thorough in-depth technical knowledge than just management skills. We are not planning to expand. Just maintain what we have.

Then arrived the problem of data and you know you gotta pay an arm and a leg to hire a programmer who’d just write 10 lines of code and wrap up for the day. We trained some of our staffs to write the code to process data. Nothing fancy, just good enough to make sense out of all that the sensors and devices are sending.

There’s no way anyone can bs their way through this. We have a couple of guys in their 70s working with us. They say they have never been happier at a job.

And these numbnuts call me to sell their shit. Thanks but no thanks.

Vivaci

🤩 Sounds like you’re running a successful venture there, my friend. That’s awesome...and having a loyal and happy employee is hard to come by these days. Speaks volumes of your management skills. So proud of you...🤗💙@SW-User

SW-User

@Vivaci Thank you, my friend. I believe like minded people can make it happen. It's everyone's effort. I believe leadership is not all about telling people what to do, but to give them the freedom to lead in what they are good at. We learn from each other and we grow.

We still encounter people like this,

https://similarworlds.com/23-Work/3829847-An-example-of-one-of-the-career-damaging-attitudes

but not anymore.