This is a bit of a story that I wanted to share with you all antiworkers.
So I had been a temporary worker at my local authority for over 2 years, and I was offered a permanent position due to staff leavers.
Awesome, I thought. Just a click of a button to switch me from temporary to permanent.
Nope. The Business Manager insisted that they post the job and conduct interviews before Christmas; three people got to interview (including me).
I interviewed, the Business Manager completely threw me off my flow (on purpose) and sat there wishing he hadn't interviewed me, and almost offered my job (which I'd been working for over TWO YEARS) to another dude that had no experience in the field, just knew how to talk to people.
My boss had to fight to keep my job. I was reluctantly offered the job on Christmas Eve, with feedback saying that if you didn't know what you were doing, and didn't need any training, you wouldn't have got the job.
I am reminded of this today, as his twin sister (who I work with and who pretty much got the job for him) has invited us all out for drinks this Friday as he's leaving to go back to his old job. I've even been asked to sign his leaving card.
I have politely declined both, (even though I don't drink) I am millimetres away from signing the card from “the one you didn't want to give a job to but knows more about the job than you do”,however it is very tempting to do so!
The interview was a pointless exercise, a total waste of makeup and effort, all to be told “yeah, you got the job, but didn't want to because I purposely threw you off to see what you'd do”.