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Topic: A Story That Needs to be Told - Part I: action with for the past two years who has suffered at the hands of one of these lunatics unlike i have ever seen in my 30 years as a recruiter. At age 19 she started as a sales and customer service rep for a household word telecommunications company. She was the leading sales rep within a short time earning over 100K a year for several years. She was offered a promotion several times to a manager level position and turned it down as it would mean that she would take a significant cut in pay. Finally realizing that if she did not accept the promotion she would forever be at the current level she made the decision to try and advance her career and make the move. At the time she accepted the promotion the Sr. Manager who had promoted her accepted another position with the company and a new Sr. Manager who had been a first level manager for 20 years was promoted into his position. The new Sr. Manager let it be known that she did not think this young woman should have been promoted. (You see the storm clouds on the horizon). My candidate's promotion was finally approved. Within 7 months early 2008, the new Sr. Manager called her in and told her that she was helping male employees more than she was helping female employees and had been talking to them about non business related matters. She was written up for a violation of the code of business conduct. The situation was that she had been assigned to a new training class of sales reps. Several of the new trainees were guys that she had gone to high school with who were planning their first high school reunion and as they knew her they were more comfortable going to her for help than some of the other trainees. Ok, she acknowledged that yes she probably had talked with them about non business matters , the reunion, and yes she probably had helped them more than other trainees as they felt comfortable coming to her because she knew them before they started. Reasonable concern and she would correct it, which she did. What followed in the next two years was a series of the most bizarre manager - direct report situations on the planet. She was called in and told that it had been reported that she had come into the office trying to buy marijuana from some of the reps while she was on vacation. The week she was supposed to have done this insanity she had been out of the city at a company training seminar for two days of the week, had taken vacation time and stayed in the other city for the remaining three days. The office has a security situation requiring a key card. She suggested to her boss that she check the security records to determine if her key card had been used and offered to provide hotel receipts to prove she not even in the city and take a drug test to prove that she had not and did not smoke dope. Her boss told her that would not be necessary, she believed her. Her boss then made a career for the next two weeks of asking almost all of the 170 employees in the center if they had ever seen her outside of work smoke marijuana. When asked why she was talking to everyone in the office creating the question as to my candidate smoking dope her boss informed her that it was her job to investigate every complaint no matter how absurd. When asked why the boss had indicated that a drug test was not necessary when that would have proved that the girl had not used any drug and the report had been that she came into the office to try and buy drugs which was easily negated by checking the key card access. The boss responded that even though that complaint could be proven wrong it was her job to determine if the girl did smoke dope as maybe a drug test could be manipulated. As no one had ever seen this young woman smoke dope that one seemed to go by the boards and nothing more was said to my candidate and it had been proven a false report. Or so my candidate thought. Stay tuned for part II this is long an bizarre story that will convince anyone that there are insane, vindictive, crazy people in management positions who should be exterminated. …; Added by Sandra McCartt at 5:16pm on June 10, 2011

Comment on: Blog Post 'Benefits of Using a Recruiter - The Sequel': ble for me to attack you personally. i can and will however attack what you write which is a whore of a different color. On the "Failure thread" you continually postured that your business model is somehow superior. Any time anyone is not happy to pick their business model and do it well without feeling constrained to postulate that their chosen path is better than another it just tickles the hell out of me to kick the living shit out of them, thank you very much. Did i atttack your recruitment (i hate than damn word) knowledge or credentials. Not one bit more than you attacked every contingency recruiter on the planet by continutally blowing your little horn that you are somehow able to provide more quality than anyone else or no one who does not do it your way should ever call themselves a headhunter. That my friend was what i was attacking. But given your theory that i can't attack you personally because i dont know you, let's expand that , i can't possibly attack your knowledge or credentials either because all i know about them is what you choose to regurgitate ,ergo it is impossible for me to attack you in any manner. I am just observing and giving my opinion with a little sarcasm mixed in, how quaint of me. It has been my experience that pissing people off does not mean one has found any hole in their argument just simply that it is possible to be a troll and piss people off. A lot of folks prefer and are trained not to engage or poke a troll who just gets their jollies by pissing people off. I love to poke trolls. You entertain yourself by pissing people off. I entertain myself by poking trolls until they have made it clear just exactly what they are or they step out and admit that they just write like insulting jerks to see if they can stir up traffic. I am not sure why you can't seem to see the link on Evelyn's blog but it's there so toddle on over and check out her comments. I would guess that the purpose of your comments that were deleted were in fact just to ,as you say, "piss someone off". Preaching to the choir perhaps, but let me say this about the article she posted. It is well writtten and certainly something that might be good info for many young recruiters starting out to refer to when asked by anyone why they should use a recruiter. You went after her with your (in my opinion) arrogant tone. She chose not to play. I would not have deleted your comments but then i'm a medal bearing, award winning , world class bitch of a crusty old recruiter who has prowled these halls for over 35 years so sonny , in my book you are as green as you seem to think she is. Run that through your superior intellect and see if that will process. I happen to think that we (that's the royal we by the by) have a responsibility to our younger peers to encourage, correct, suggest, sometimes argue but above all not to try and beat them to death if they show their butt a little while they are learning and growing in this industry. If you prefer to spit and hiss at them like a pit viper so be it. Not my style. I will go to the ground with one of my experienced peers who should know better or thinks they live in an ivory tower. However now that we have established that you just like to piss people off to entertain yourself and i'm super busy and am now bored with troll poking i'm going back to work. Go pull wings off of flys it would rid the world of a real pest and probably be more satisfying to you than beating on a young woman who wrote a good blog and wasn't interested in your brand of bullshit. @Evelyn, my suggestion for what it's worth, take the moderation off your blog, don't delete comments. Just let it roll. If the trolls come at you either ignore them or just wait a minute and some old crusty recruiter will get a gut full of it and take care of it for you. Nobody gets more support than a lovely young woman who is harrassed by a troll who just wants to piss people off.…; Added by Sandra McCartt at 4:56pm on April 25, 2012

Blog Post: Recruiting Metrics that Will Give You Big Results: Check out iCIMS' latest …; Added by Elise Jennings at 11:36am on May 22, 2013

Blog Post: Fishing in the Net and Slapped by a Wet Fish? - Day 2: Added by Gary Franklin at 2:57pm on August 8, 2010

Blog Post: Candidate Response, Company Brand and Your ATS: Working your way past the locked door, to the room of the interview
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Blog Post: Resume - Rest in Peace (good riddance!)

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Blog Post: The genius behind Steve: Could operations whiz Tim Cook run the company someday?

By Adam Lashinsky, senior writer

LAST UPDATED: NOVEMBER 10, 2008: 10:25 AM ET

Tim Cook (left) and Steve Jobs…; Added by 01. Lonnie McRorey at 11:36am on November 12, 2008