It’s A Small, Small, Small World
Nowhere is this more true than in publishing. Horror stories abound of bridges burned at awful jobs only for the victim to then run into said awful person at the next job, who then makes the victim’s life even more of a living hell than it already was. If you blow off, insult, attack, or bitch about your editor it is basically a law that that editor will then show up and cause you to lose that job you’re so psyched about starting.
However, it turns out that it’s a small world in HR and recruiting, too, lest we forget that the other half of the folks who read this blog don’t have it that easy either.
Read this amazing story from Clue Wagon:
The year was 1999… Cell phones were huge, and they were still very unreliable.
So imagine my surprise when I was a candidate for an HR Manager job, and the interviewer called me for the phone interview…on a cell phone. In 1999. There was a lot of static, and her voice kept cutting in and out, and I kept having to say, “I’m sorry, could you repeat that?”
The interviewer then proceeded to blame, in turn, for the bad service: her gum, her basement, and the job candidate. The interviewer acted totally clueless about the candidate’s resume and was super-aggressive throughout the whole thing.
Then we got disconnected.
And she called me right back (from a landline this time), and I picked up, and said something like, “Oh, we must have been disconnected.”
And she said, “Bullshit. We didn’t get disconnected. You just hung up on me, didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU??? Because that is going on your permanent record with us.”
Moral of the story: “Her resume has crossed my desk three times in the ten years since this happened. Obviously, I never considered her…because this incident is on her permanent record.”
Oh dear.
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