View Full Version : The VP tried to make me feel bad for leaving
1stTimeCaller
2/27/2006, 04:48 PM
He said something to the effect of spending $15k on recruiter fees and flying me in to intrview. I wanted to say, 'Sounds like you're problem, not mine. If you would have paid my mileage for $43.65 you wouldn't have wasted $15k'.
He told me that today would be my last day here. Best news I've heard from him in a while.
So, you whiffed on Copy Girl didn't you?
1stTimeCaller
2/27/2006, 04:50 PM
she's not here today.
Yes, I really didn't whiff being as you gotta swing to whiff...
Hatfield
2/27/2006, 04:51 PM
So, you whiffed on Copy Girl didn't you?
to whiff don't you have to take a swing?
1stTimeCaller
2/27/2006, 04:52 PM
I stand corrected.
no need to stand, you can sit down
today will be my last day here.
I'll miss you. A lot.
yermom
2/27/2006, 05:03 PM
So, you whizzed on Copy Girl didn't you?
dude, she wasn't there
crawfish
2/27/2006, 05:04 PM
Did you tell him "GADOCADWI"?
KABOOKIE
2/27/2006, 05:05 PM
At least he didn't shoot you with his 28 gauge shotgun.
1stTimeCaller
2/27/2006, 05:06 PM
I should've. I just laid out the reasons I felt like I needed to work somewhere else and was very polite about it. He told me to give him a holler later on if I wanted to come back.
NormanPride
2/27/2006, 05:12 PM
You should give him a call and tell him how much happier you are.
JohnnyMack
2/27/2006, 05:13 PM
You really left over 43 bucks?
KABOOKIE
2/27/2006, 05:17 PM
You really left over 43 bucks?
It's not the amount. It's the principle!
10 to 1 says the Veep let him go early to avoid the possibility of a pee-pee attack. :D
jk the sooner fan
2/27/2006, 05:18 PM
you should have told him that "ironically, the company i'm going to reimburses for mileage but never would have paid to relocate me here"
http://www.nationalspride.com/images/scoring/strikeout-looking.gif
yermom
2/27/2006, 05:22 PM
you should have told him that "ironically, the company i'm going to reimburses for mileage but never would have paid to relocate me here"
heh, ouch
1stTimeCaller
2/27/2006, 05:24 PM
That $43.65 was the best investment I've ever made. Kabookie is right about it being the principle. There were other reasons. When I took the job they told me that I'd be in estimating no longer than 3 months, I've been asking to get out to the field and getting ya-ya responses, I had one project manager tell me that I had to stand in line behind two other project engineers and that didn't sit well with me at all. I've seen the problems they have on their jobs and it's pathetic to have 4+ years experience and to have the problems on simple jobs that those two guys have.
Vaevictis
2/27/2006, 05:32 PM
"Advertise a $7500 signing bonus, and you won't HAVE to pay $15k on recruiter fees."
usmc-sooner
2/27/2006, 05:48 PM
you should have made a 14 point checklist of facism and put check marks next to all the things that applied to your boss.
Hatfield
2/27/2006, 05:49 PM
so what you're saying is that the vp wants the copy girl?
mdklatt
2/27/2006, 05:52 PM
Loudly nail the Indianette in the copy room during the middle of the day and I bet they won't be so upset that you're leaving.
mdklatt
2/27/2006, 05:54 PM
He said something to the effect of spending $15k on recruiter fees
:eek:
I'm in the wrong field if some companies have to pay $15k to find employees.
Stanley1
2/27/2006, 07:30 PM
http://www.nationalspride.com/images/scoring/strikeout-looking.gif
Heh.....wonder how many people have NO IDEA what this means. :D
jk the sooner fan
2/27/2006, 07:33 PM
Heh.....wonder how many people have NO IDEA what this means. :D
i'll bet its higher than those of us who do
Vaevictis
2/27/2006, 07:38 PM
Usually they pay a (fairly high, like 15-25%) percentage of a year's salary for a hire (or they mark up the hourly, if hourly). What that means is that 1TC is reasonably well paid. ;)
Stanley1
2/27/2006, 07:39 PM
Usually they pay a (fairly high, like 15-25%) percentage of a year's salary for a hire (or they mark up the hourly, if hourly). What that means is that 1TC is reasonably well paid. ;)
He still looks like a goob though.
BeetDigger
2/27/2006, 07:59 PM
Usually they pay a (fairly high, like 15-25%) percentage of a year's salary for a hire (or they mark up the hourly, if hourly). What that means is that 1TC is reasonably well paid. ;)
A recruiter brought (a team of 5) us over to a new firm a few years back. The fee on that deal was $500,000. And was negotiated down a fair bit. It was a good year for that recruiter. Plus our analyst got to nail her after our closing dinner. The rest of us were married so he had no competition.
Heh.....wonder how many people have NO IDEA what this means. :D
judging by the amount of spek, only 3 you , JK and one other.... :(
OklahomaTrombone
2/27/2006, 08:39 PM
Just saw it...you have been spekkekkeked.
swardboy
2/27/2006, 08:45 PM
I should've. I just laid out the reasons I felt like I needed to work somewhere else and was very polite about it. He told me to give him a holler later on if I wanted to come back.
I'm proud of you son. Only a fool burns bridges.
Al Gore
2/27/2006, 09:58 PM
Usually they pay a (fairly high, like 15-25%) percentage of a year's salary for a hire (or they mark up the hourly, if hourly). What that means is that 1TC is reasonably well paid. ;)Damn overpaid construction workers..........
Frozen Sooner
2/27/2006, 10:03 PM
I am aware of what it means. Ike can confirm.
Sooner_Bob
2/27/2006, 10:45 PM
so what you're saying is that the vp wants the copy girl?
heh
Sooner_Bob
2/27/2006, 10:55 PM
Heh.....wonder how many people have NO IDEA what this means. :D
I'm in the know . . . :D
Oldnslo
2/27/2006, 10:58 PM
she's not here today.
Yes, I really didn't whiff being as you gotta swing to whiff...
Yaz.
usmc-sooner
2/28/2006, 01:08 AM
if you go down looking it's still a strike out
if you go down looking it's still a strike out
(hence the backwards K)
Penguin
2/28/2006, 02:05 AM
Why would Dick Cheney care if you quit?
He didn't shoot you, did he?
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