to be appalled at this and to think about whether I want to work there in the long term

[hopipolla]

I've just got a new job and we are recruiting for a new member of staff and I'd collated and printed out all the applicants CVs and Cover Letters before giving them to the person who is in charge of the recruitment process. He immediately picked up half of them and put them in the bin before joking with another colleague that "unlucky people don't get hired", he then proceeded to put one in the shredder which he had had delivered that morning as he needed to "test it" apparently before laughing with the colleague again.

I'm about the whole episode but DP thinks that this sort of thing will be fairly common practice at the current time with some many people jobhunting and that I'm overreacting due to my brother who is graduating in June and so is sending a lot of CVs/applications out.

[jaywall]

YABU printing them all out! Why did you need to do that, why not just email them.
Will somebody think of the forests !

[GranToAirMissiles]

The OP is credible, and something needs done.

[PurpleStorm]

This sounds pretty bad.

You'd think that there'd be better ways to do an inital cull.

For instance, you could bin ones with obvious spelling mistakes, ones without the necessary qualifications / experience, ones which are 6 pages long.

[SPBInDisguise]

That's an overreaction. Their legal recruitment processes aren't really anyone else's business.

[Tee2072]

Any company I worked for would raise one eyebrow at such a letter and shred it as unfounded hate mail. More than one would go into a 'what the hell is going on file' and eventually taken as suspect and a vendetta against the company.

[BegoniaBampot]

Would you really write to and boycott a company like this on the say so of an anonymous poster on the Internet?

[TheRealFellatio]

Yes I suppose so.

[GranToAirMissiles]

TRF, the actual incident doesn't need to be mentioned. Letting the firm know that there are well-founded views about behaviour at the company should be enough to give them pause. It seems unlikely that this is an isolated incident - if it is, then so much the better.

[TheRealFellatio]

You would have to get this thread deleted though - if it was in any traced to the OP she could lose her job. In fact she'd still be under suspicion as only certain people would have witnessed it.

[mrsscoob]

That is a David Brent joke from The Office. What a twat, he probably only did it to get a laugh from his colleague. You should report him.

Could be possible that if he did it to get a laugh though? he may have fished them out of the bin after?

[GranToAirMissiles]

I am appalled at this. Can you give us the name of the company, so we can boycott, and write to them to say why (without outing you, of course)? At least give us a hint.

[TheRealFellatio]

No, I didn't but....I'll PM you!

[theodorakisses]

Fellatio,sorry to hijack but did you go the the Supremes and the Temptations on Friday? Maybe we met.

[MushroomSoup]

It actually doesn't take long. As Newbie says, it's easy to cull. In my line of work grammar and spelling is important so applications are discarded quite quickly. It doesn't take long to email the candidate with a line to say why.

[Tee2072]

That's definitely discrimination newbie. Better hope no one finds out. You aren't allowed to judge by age unless age is relevant to the position, for which 'responsibility and maturity' may or may not qualify.

[TheRealFellatio]

I am yes.

[newbiefrugalgal]

I review applicants but its easy to cull them. It's usually a part time role
My criteria:
Have they applied for my job -often forget to change details
If they have to travel too far -anything west of the city
I do discard recent graduates -sorry but you will leave once your dream job comes up.
Too young -it's a position of responsibility and maturity counts -could be age discrimination on this!!

[raisah]

Je binned the forms without reading them? O would have sent his line manager an anonymous note after the recruitment process is over detailing what you have put in your post. As he did it in open view of the office anybody could have typed the note & left it on the managers desk. Hopefully his performance will ben monitored.

[Tee2072]

What a waste of time, Mushroom. I'm surprised your employer was happy for you to do that. Surely it cut into time you should have been spending doing your actual job? Unless your job is recruitment, in which case, okay.

[SPBInDisguise]

Mushroom, your employer may argue your time would have been better spent on oter tasks

[MushroomSoup]

What a DICK.
I recently had nearly 300 applications for 10 jobs. I read every single one. I even replied, personally, to every single one. There is no excuse for such poor behaviour

[theodorakisses]

fellatio, are you my doha friend with a namechange?

[TheRealFellatio]

What an abominable thing to do - that man is not fit to be in charge of hiring. not only is it extremely offensive and unfair on the applicants but it is doing his company a huge disservice as well. He should be reported but I doubt you'd want to be the one to do it, having just joined.

Although if the jobs in question are minimum wage conveyer-belt fodder that require no specific skills or qualifications then I can imagine it gets pretty wearing ploughing through six hundred identical applications for 5 posts.

He is still in the wrong though.

[theodorakisses]

I know someone who works at HMRC and she does that with forms from rich people who are owed a rebate because she hates them. Not a friend I hasten to add and have often thought about reporting it. She is in Scotland.