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Mar 2014
10:21am, 26 Mar 2014
1,140 posts
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Fellrunning
Armchair aviation experts. Not to mention armchair maritime experts.
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Mar 2014
10:49am, 26 Mar 2014
203 posts
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ERM
"Recruitment Consultants / Head Hunters"
- nope you're just a recent graduate on his/her first job who's trying to make me interested in a position that I clearly am not qualifiied for, all on the basis of the 'search' function on Linked-In.
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Mar 2014
10:57am, 26 Mar 2014
25,278 posts
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Frobester
Hahahaha ERM, so it's not just me then! "Ooh look Boss, I got 87 people interested in that job, please give me a pay rise, or let me stay on at this company"....
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Mar 2014
11:21am, 26 Mar 2014
29,298 posts
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Velociraptor
People who live in countries in which the road signs are in miles, but insist on cycling kilometres. Especially when they're people I want to like.
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Mar 2014
11:26am, 26 Mar 2014
10,938 posts
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The Teaboy
I suppose the reverse might apply too Mrs V. But then miles make so much more sense... 
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Mar 2014
11:36am, 26 Mar 2014
29,299 posts
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Velociraptor
I'm sure if I were a little French dinosaur I would be quite appropriately unimpressed with a compatriot who insisted on riding their bike in miles
(I'm quite capable of thinking in kilometres when I'm in countries that have kilometres on their road signs. And I'm a prize hypocrite, because I ascend and descend in metres.)
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Mar 2014
11:38am, 26 Mar 2014
2,545 posts
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Carpathius
People who either don't signal at roundabouts, or who exit whilst still signalling right.
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Mar 2014
11:43am, 26 Mar 2014
204 posts
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ERM
Yes Frobester, that seems to be the case ! Yet on the telephone they sound sooooo interested in your qualifications and experience before asking for your cv to apply for a job which you stand no chance in getting.
(Me - "I am not a QP. The job spec asks for a QP as it involves activities that only such a person can undertake. Why are we having this chat?"
"Executive Headhunter" - "Oh, really?" )
Methinks most of the time they don't actually know what they're talking about. (Although I'm sure that there are many out there that are great, personable and are immensely knowledgeable)
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Mar 2014
11:48am, 26 Mar 2014
25,290 posts
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Frobester
They neither know what they're talking about, ERM, nor seem in the slightest bit interested in any contact from oneself. I have to bite my typing tongue when responding, for fear of writing "f*ck off and spend some time reading profiles before wasting everyone's time, you pointless person".
I did end up going for an interview recommended by one of these people, and, on the discovery that there was a complete mismatch between job spec and me, I made a point of telling both the interview and his Human Remains colleague the name of the headhunting agency and headhunter, and made it clear if they continued their scattergun approach I'd be circulating details of their incompetence far and wide on LinkedIn. It seemed to work.
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Mar 2014
1:09pm, 26 Mar 2014
4,675 posts
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daz1927
Pointless work emails that waste space, air, bandwidth and my fucking patience!
If I (the Customer) write an email to you (the Supplier) requesting an update, an update is what I require.
An email some 1.5 hours later, saying “Daz, I’ll provide an update” does not inspire confidence and makes me think you’re a cock.
It’s now been a further 2 hours, and I still don’t have it – pull your effing finger out! (I’m not having a good day – I need the update to pass on before I can depart and go on the p!ss for a colleagues leaving bash)
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