Plecostomus
Commodore
So we've got two operator positions open and I am interviewing for a helper-apprentice.
The machine operator positions are unskilled labor... training is provided and this company is VERY GOOD about training. More or less you put thing in the other thing, push a button and take the combined thing out 45 seconds later. Very easy stuff.
Second job, I'm looking for someone that I can train to work as my left hand doing routine purchasing work and run prototypes at my direction, Semi-skilled... Prefer someone with basic business skills or someone with manufacturing skills.
Ok so the first interview... I was invited to sit in on the interview as this position overlaps the CNC and Fab-Shop departments.
Guy comes in and wants to know how many people in the department, their ages, military experience and a whole host of other information. We kept steering him back on topic trying to get him to realize this is NOT a forman position it's a labor position. HE keeps steering it back to how he's going to rock the shop to the ground and institute all these changes and he doesn't care if it's an entry level position he's coming in to TAKE CHARGE. NEXT!
Second guy comes in and promptly states that because of his 22 years experience he should not have to answer to the "chain of command" as he doesn't need someone looking over his shoulder, there is NOTHING he cannot do in a shop like this. Had a very hard time getting him to understand this is an ENTRY LEVEL POSITION but he couldn't hear that over the sound the sound of his raging awesometicity. NEXT!
Third candidate: The list of "reasonable accomidations" we would have to make was longer than the actual interview. She can't lift more than 15 pounds, sit on a hard chair, all stools must be X high and have backs and padding, she cannot work near sudden loud noises nor be exposed to insects because she is allergic to 47 kinds... Oh and the real gem... she told us she can't be on a team with anyone who is "religious" because of a past childhood trauma and she can provide documentation explaining what happens when she's around "those sorts."
Ok then I went to lunch and got ready to interview a potential apprentice-helper for my area. Owner has the last word so he's listening in via webcam from the next room. This prevents me from hiring some bimbo with epic cleavage because she smells nice.
(OK IT HAPPENED ONE TIME AND IT WASN'T MY FAULT, BOB SIGNED THE PAPERS NOT ME!
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Anyway. Gentleman sits down I introduce myself and explain what I am looking for and he cuts me off. He asks me how old I am and before I can answer he says that he wants a different interviewer... one closer in age to him because there is no way in hell that anyone MY age can understand exactly what his skills and degree represent and that only someone around his age could fully grasp that. Owner gets up, walks into my office, shakes his hand and tells him to GTFO.
The ultimate fail on that one? I'm mid 30s.. he's 29.
Ok anyone else go through this? I'm beginning to understand this is just how people are at interviews and these clowns I delt with today are nothing special.
The machine operator positions are unskilled labor... training is provided and this company is VERY GOOD about training. More or less you put thing in the other thing, push a button and take the combined thing out 45 seconds later. Very easy stuff.
Second job, I'm looking for someone that I can train to work as my left hand doing routine purchasing work and run prototypes at my direction, Semi-skilled... Prefer someone with basic business skills or someone with manufacturing skills.
Ok so the first interview... I was invited to sit in on the interview as this position overlaps the CNC and Fab-Shop departments.
Guy comes in and wants to know how many people in the department, their ages, military experience and a whole host of other information. We kept steering him back on topic trying to get him to realize this is NOT a forman position it's a labor position. HE keeps steering it back to how he's going to rock the shop to the ground and institute all these changes and he doesn't care if it's an entry level position he's coming in to TAKE CHARGE. NEXT!
Second guy comes in and promptly states that because of his 22 years experience he should not have to answer to the "chain of command" as he doesn't need someone looking over his shoulder, there is NOTHING he cannot do in a shop like this. Had a very hard time getting him to understand this is an ENTRY LEVEL POSITION but he couldn't hear that over the sound the sound of his raging awesometicity. NEXT!
Third candidate: The list of "reasonable accomidations" we would have to make was longer than the actual interview. She can't lift more than 15 pounds, sit on a hard chair, all stools must be X high and have backs and padding, she cannot work near sudden loud noises nor be exposed to insects because she is allergic to 47 kinds... Oh and the real gem... she told us she can't be on a team with anyone who is "religious" because of a past childhood trauma and she can provide documentation explaining what happens when she's around "those sorts."
Ok then I went to lunch and got ready to interview a potential apprentice-helper for my area. Owner has the last word so he's listening in via webcam from the next room. This prevents me from hiring some bimbo with epic cleavage because she smells nice.
(OK IT HAPPENED ONE TIME AND IT WASN'T MY FAULT, BOB SIGNED THE PAPERS NOT ME!
Anyway. Gentleman sits down I introduce myself and explain what I am looking for and he cuts me off. He asks me how old I am and before I can answer he says that he wants a different interviewer... one closer in age to him because there is no way in hell that anyone MY age can understand exactly what his skills and degree represent and that only someone around his age could fully grasp that. Owner gets up, walks into my office, shakes his hand and tells him to GTFO.
The ultimate fail on that one? I'm mid 30s.. he's 29.
Ok anyone else go through this? I'm beginning to understand this is just how people are at interviews and these clowns I delt with today are nothing special.
