Direct Reports, WTF?????????

[Azul]

I wouldn't take that job, it looks like they're expecting you to be in charge of something or something like that.

creepy

[Keef]

I was looking for a job and then I found a job and heaven knows I'm miserable now

So it could have been worse.

Unfortunately that's basically the situation I've been in for the last 3 years of my 6 year stay in this job, hence the search. Serves me right for training to do a job that no one has ever heard of, with no kind of ladder to climb... But at least I'm a "professional" :-S

[Brendan]

If you lose a round don?t let it get to you. Just remember this world is a school yard game imagined by idiots. Real insight is at best misunderstood and at worst seen as a threat. So don?t let the outcomes bother you. Just beat them some other way.

[Brendan]

hmmmm... I seem to have regressed to being a stoned arts student :-S

[Ant]

Tough luck Keef.

Although from the sound of all that jargon maybe it was a close escape. Hope you find something else soon though.

[Jah Lush]

Tough luck Keef, probably just as well though. I hope you find something that suits your skills and they are many. Don't give up and don't let the bastards grind you down. As my dad used to say "always fight fire with fire," which is probably why he was thrown out of the fire brigade.

[PeckhamRose]

But you used the phrase "client group" above! Clearly they blew their chances.

Sorry you did not get shortlisted.

I am not in this world of employed/PAYE work at all but MrRose and lots of friends are who also work in public sector and one thing is for sure: the best person for the job will never get the job as long as they don't fulfil criteria laid down by politicians and quangos, and live in the real world.

When they started to call patients "clients" or user groups is when I started to realise me and that world was parting company. No, wait, it was when Personnel became Human Resources.

[Michael Palaeologus]

Keef mate - you ran your flag up the flag-pole and they failed to salute it. Comfort yourself that, if you had been on-boarded, you may well have found a lack of synergy between your aspirations and their vision; leaving you to say:

"F@ck your job"

:))

[Sue]

Hey Keef, if you hate your job, why don't you write a job description for your ideal job, then write your CV around it (if you see what I mean), then send the CV to any organisation/person who might be recruiting for your ideal job?

Just an idea :)

Many jobs aren't filled by advertising them, unfair as that may be.