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.

[theodorakisses]

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

[TheRealFellatio]

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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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]

Yes I suppose so.

[BegoniaBampot]

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

[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.

[SPBInDisguise]

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

[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.

[GranToAirMissiles]

The OP is credible, and something needs done.

[jaywall]

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