Here’s an idea…
When someone comes in to your office professionally dressed and saying they have an appointment with your HR Manager, they PROBABLY have an interview scheduled.
Maybe it’s not the BEST idea to be on a personal phone call complaining loudly about your job, that they’re interviewing for a position they “didn’t even ask if you wanted”, your salary (and recent raise), and the company in general while that person is sitting in your lobby for 10 minutes, less than 4 feet away.
Although this COULD HAVE been considered a “warning” to the potential new employee about the company, it mostly made you sound like a whiny asshole. You have a job, you clearly don’t work very hard, and maybe you should consider that you’re the first person people see when they come in.
As tempting as it was to say something to the HR Manager, I didn’t want to hurt MY chances to get a job I really want/need with a company that MANY other people speak very highly of. —Think before you speak
This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2014.
Excellent post. Flipside, I’ve been in interviews where the interviewer has stopped to call the assistant, receptionist or other support person, and yell at them for being stupid, while I sat quietly and pretended to read a magazine. Not the kind of place I wanted to work.
And if they were unhappy and you extrapolate that unhappiness over the company… is it a place you want to work?
I would say it speaks poorly of the company management for not firing that sullen little bitch receptionist already. she has bad manners.
“HUMAN RESOURCES”
I wouldn’t want to work for any company that had a “Human Resources Manager.” I am not a “human resource” to be used up and then discarded. I am a philosopher but, of course, philosophy is an alien country to Human Resources Managers. May their ilk perish from the face of the earth.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!