This is pretty standard. Whether wrong or right, an employer would rather have those that are “the cream of the crop” (i.e., the currently employed) rather than the laid off, whom might have been laid off for performance reasons.
Yeah, I’ve had the “recruiter going through the phone directory” thing happen before. Lots of fun.
Additional awesome: one time, at the end of our project, it was our publisher, trying to poach staff for their internal development teams.
JonRowe
3023
Interesting to say the least of course, none of this is happening to me, just hypothetically.
TimJames
3025
YAY, first ever case of directed (albeit mild) road rage toward me. I had just been pulled over for the first time in my life last year and had been missing out on this other fine part of driving in America. Just some guy that didn’t use a turn signal when we were across from each other at a stop sign. I looked at his lights to make sure I wasn’t in the wrong, threw my hands up, and he flicked me off when he realized.
I know this is nothing compared to what everyone here deals with daily, but I was beginning to think I’d be a 30-year-old angry driver virgin so it’s a big relief. My P&R asshole attitude doesn’t translate very well to real life I guess.
Laid off from NCsoft today.
— Alan
Dravalen
3027
Sucky, was it department wide layoffs?
Not exactly; I had been slated to be let go at the end of May since my Producer position was being moved to Seattle and I decided not to relocate, but was able instead to transition to a short-term Aion-related web/writing team. I was hoping to become a permanent part of the team (if not Lead) by the time they decided where the team was going to be permanently housed, which as it turns out was Austin after all, but they went another direction as far as personnel goes and out I went.
— Alan
nlanza
3029
Hey, that’s not a bad thing. Angry forum posters are (almost) never going to shoot you.
A client overheard me and a colleague exchange a few terms of our trade that were of course natural to us, but utter gibberish to ousiders. “You guys are such nerds”, she giggled. Totally made my day.
Scrax
3032
YOU’RE RUINING THE ILLUSION MR. STORMTROOPER
Just surprised the wife with a post-wedding shower that her sister has been planning for weeks. She had no clue it was going down until the moment she walked in the door and the look on her face was priceless.
Today was a very happy day. Our families and friends rock.
Yeah, if you were hidden with a hose and a showerhead, that figures…
Somebody egged my house.
Seriously.
I thought that was only something that happened in American movies set in the 50’s.
kerzain
3035
Bleh, I hear ya. Someone egged a bunch of cars on my street the other day and got one of ours too. Now we have a big splotch where the egg eroded some the paint. Thanks world.
Griddle
3036
Well, I have asshole neighbors… We built a 5’ diameter fire pit lined and bordered with flagstone, we built a fire, and out of the woodwork comes whiny old couple who sounded like the older women from “coffee talk” on Saturday Night Live. So we got a polite visit from the police, and fire department. They made fun of the asshat neighbors, and made a 1/2 second spurt from the fire hose at our fire, and laughed while putting the hose away. I got a number, and website to get a permit so the the old jerkasses can’t say anything from now on. On top of that, the police said once I get a permit, if they call the cops a few more times, I can get a restraining order and they’ll get locked up, hahahahahaha, JERKASSES!!!
WarrenM
3037
We were part of a surprise party for a friend of ours. Our job was to buy an ice cream cake, with his name on it, and then show up at their house while they were out to dinner.
We were told the key would be in the mailbox but guess what? Yeah, it wasn’t. So we text the guy we’re organizing this with and ask where it is. He texts back that the neighbor has it. The neighbor isn’t home, so we camp out in the backyard until they get home.
She finally does get home and we get the key. We’re coming in the back of the house and when I look up, I see the birthday boy coming in the front door - they’re back from dinner. So he looks up and sees me skulking into his house through the back door with an ice cream cake and the look on his face was the ultimate, “WTF?”
So … yeah, off to an awesome start. Nothing is set up, the cake is melting, and the guy is obviously totally not in the mood for this. We put some candles on the now rapidly melting cake and have him blow them out before it completely turns to liquid. We then make awkward small talk and stilted jokes for a few hours, play come cards and leave.
So painful. I hope he can forgive us some day…
zengonzo
3038
Yeow, that’s pretty awkward - how did things go so wrong?
WarrenM
3039
Yeow, that’s pretty awkward - how did things go so wrong?
Pretty much hinges on the house key situation. If it had been where it was supposed to be, we would have been in the house a good hour before they got home and would have set everything up nicely.
kerzain
3040
Am I crazy or was Warren named EpicBoy a moment ago?
