so that person is both wasting people's time, and possibly making their current team feel unnerved and replacable. galaxy brain move truly
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Meh, they're just hiding the obvious - if they found a good candidate they'd hire them. It's a gentle rejection.
This appears to go over our linkedin mastermind over there though, and proceeds to write a self-help book about it...
If they straight up admitted they wasted my time, I'd steal a printer or something on the way out.
With how printers are nowadays, that printer would probably try to get a GPS lock, or failing that, scan all devices nearby to try to determine its whereabouts, then capture your ID, face and any sensitive information it could, and start extorting your for more yellow ink...
Beautiful comment
Yellow ink used to draw those sweet invisible fingerprints on every printed page so you can be tracked easily
And demand you create an account to just turn it on.
if you can't be aware of your team's worth without wasting everyone else's time, then you're a pretty pathetic "leader"
i thought sikhs were supposed to be not-dickheads?
My man writing corporate yaoi fanfiction on LinkedIn...
Whats yaoi ?
Manga depicting explicit, male homosexuality.
thank you.
As is tradition on 4chan, all greentexts stories are fake and gay. Jack is elegantly indicating this, by qualifying OP's post as being a fictional male homoerotic narrative.
Waste people's time and give them false hope. Great moral
Wasting his own time and the companies too. Should be sacked. I hope he gets nothing but bogus interviews for the rest of his life.
Do these people even hear themselves talk?
You kidding?
It's their favorite thing.
Congrats, Harjeet, on being a piece of shit. Doesn't even matter if it's fake and gay like greentexts, this kind of thought is a cancer
You all don't get it. In the story, the interviewer is the bad guy, he's wasting his time and the time of the interviewee just to understand how valuable his team is.
The lesson to take from it is to be in touch with your team so that you don't need someone else to show you how they are.
Isn't that the entire point of being a people leader? I am, and my job description and yearly goals are all about team performance, not my individual performance.
I'm surprised this is so low. The moral obviously implies this interviewer behavior is wrong.
I can’t wait to retire and fuck off into the sunset. This shit is so tiresome.
Vice President Human Resources at Reliance
Aaah, that explains it all.
If you need external validation that your team has value, you have no business being in a management position.
This man will not have a car within 6 months, he will have a flaming pile of scrap, or a canvas upon which scratches paint a vile picture.
And also will be receiving an invoice for my time.
A quick search reveals ol' Harjeet is somehow quite the bigwig in HR circles. He wrote a book entitled 'Employee Retention Mastermind'.
I wonder if this is an excerpt.
HR not shaking the rep as a cargo cult any time soon
Did everybody just decide to not read the last part?
Be aware of your people's worth so the world doesn't have to remind you.
It's basically 'hey, remember how shitty hiring is? keep that in mind and try to keep people you have.' It's not an example of "this is a good thing to try doing."
No its saying what he learnt from doing the actions in a more summarized manner. "The world reminding you" is not the actions taken in the story, but rather the conceptual issue you'll be avoiding by following the "advice". It's not a negation