Dear God! Interview Nightmare

[Ryvita]

I learnt today that I have an interview on the 27th with the FCO for a dream job. More to the point I am one of two people being interviewed. As a result I'm going to have to fly back mid week for a day to do the interview.

Aargh!

Flights are Easyjet from Lyon at 21.15 Wednesday, for interview Thursday, returning to Lyon Friday Morning at 09.15.

I figure I should miss about a day and a half's skiing, but fingers crossed it will be uber job joy on return.

The job is doing risk assessment and safety advice for UK embassies and high commissions all over the world. London based with lots of foreign travel. :)

Why ambassador, with this Ferrero Roche, you're really spoiling us!

Ryv

[her0n]

OMG their timing sucks!.... but hopefully you will get the rewards you deserve and the hassle will have been worth it :)

Best of luck to you ryv :sunny:

[Pingman]

lol, you better get that job RYV ive foudn a good rate on a car loan :D

[her0n]

wtf are you on about pingman?

[Njoroge]

Telling them that you're on holiday isn't necesserily going to be badly perceived. You should at least mention the skiing trip..

Well anyway, if you do bugger off then best of luck old pal

[Freelance]

another interview nightmare: testing for a job i'm considering on a saturday, or stratlan?

[Pingman]

Originally posted by her0n
wtf are you on about pingman?

Don't worry, Ryvita Knows what im on about.

P.s. did you get that pack of ryvitas i left you at stafflan btw? incase you were wondering i didn;t go out and especially by them i had them left over from LAN food and thought youd appreciate them :D

[lyn]

Good luck Ryv
You deserve it after all the hard work you have put in.

[afty]

Ryv, you tell them you're on a skiing holiday with 17 friends you're a trip organiser. Tell them you will need to interview a few days earlier or later.

This will not be perceived badly, and trust me, you will *NOT* want to fly back for the day once you get there for a whole WORLD of reasons.

[Ryvita]

I Am aware that with any other organisation, you could state all of these reasons and rearrange, but we're dealing with a branch of the civil service here, and flexibility is not really their middle name... Flights are booked.

Ryv

P.S. Yes Ping, Your biscuity gift is sat by my PC at home at the moment, I do indeed know what you are on about, if all goes according to plan the article in question (vroom, vroom) would be ready for sale in about 2 months time. :)

[her0n]

Originally posted by Pingman
lol, you better get that job Zak ive foudn a good rate on a car loan :D

I get it now.. but did you mean to say Zak ?

[Pingman]

LOL i ment Ryv

/me rolls eyes

something didn't connect in my head properly il go edit the post so you look silly now

[Bootz]

Originally posted by Pingman
P.s. did you get that pack of ryvitas i left you at stafflan btw? incase you were wondering i didn;t go out and especially by them i had them left over from LAN food and thought youd appreciate them :D

lies Ping, you suck up :p ;)

[Pingman]

Originally posted by Bootz
lies Ping, you suck up :p ;)


I bought them to eat with the oh so creamy philidelphia, but i ended up using that in sandwiths as i forgot to buy butter, the at the nd of the lan i had the ryvitas left, i looked up and though "now theres a gentleman that can make good use of these" dumped them on his desk adn continued to pack :)

tune in next week for another crap story :)

[Ryvita]

I'm prepared to accept this at face value. :)

For reference to anyone that may be interested. £400 worth of new Goodyear Eagle F1 tyres going onto a certain car tomorrow. :)

Ryv

[Pingman]

:D

[Ryvita]

I've had to create a spreadsheet with all my travel movements on it. It's very, very stupid. I can't believe I'm flying back for a days worth of skiing a nd one last night party. Actually, yes I can. :)

Currently, the only modes of transport I'm not using are:

Dog Sled
Submarine
Zeppelin

Ryv

[bvark]

Methinks the lad doth protest too much.

26/01
Bourg-St.Maurice 15:59
Lyon-St Exupery(TGV) 19:41
Lyon Airport 21:15

28/01
Lyon Airport 09:15
Lyon-St Exupery(TGV) 11:45
Bourg-St.Maurice 15:07

Transfers to/from BSM courtesy of the bvark taxi.

I've had two journeys more complicated (and a damn sight longer) than yours for work in the last 96 hours. Stop whinging :-)

[Ryvita]

I bow to your

a) Ability to get sense out of French websites
b) Travelling hardiness

:)

Ryv

[afty]

I still maintain you're mad for not having them move it forward or back a few days!

[Boffykins]

I think if it's the "dream job" he makes it out to be, he'd be mad to ask them something which could jeopardise his chances. Good luck Ryv, sing to them, that'll get it :)

[Ryvita]

Afty - Trust me, I've tried. Did you think I was doing this voluntarily???

[afty]

I have to be honest, if someone refused to move an interview by a few days, with several weeks notice that would be the first sign to me that they are *not* the type of people I would want to work for.

[Ryvita]

It's crossed my mind. However, I am intent on selling my soul to the civil service: For God, Queen and Rich Tea Biscuits! So it kinda goes with the territory. :(

Trust me, I've investigated what the job itself entails and it's worth half a mile of broken glass.

Two words. Ferrero. Roche.

:p:

Ryv

[Aardvark]

Get your arse on irc Ryv. Ta.

[Ryvita]

Didn't get it. Not a happy bunny right now.

[lyn]

Poor Ryv


/me sends hugs over

[Mingtea]

omg the Civil service suck arse.

*hug*

[Njoroge]

At least they have your name on file. If they told you why then you can work on it, if they didn't then you can at least hope to fit the profile of other similar jobs they may have open in the future.

Don't take it too badly son, it'll turn out all right

[Baroness]

OMG.

Hard luck Ryv

They lost out, tbh.... :(

[afty]

Sorry to hear it Ryv, probably for the best. If they don't give you the job after all the effort you put in, they're clearly uttercnuts - the type of people you don't want to work for.

[Wizzo]

Jesus that sucks m8. After all that effort too. :(

Oh well back on the horse and find an even better job! :)

[Culture]

Sounded like a cool job.

Bit arse :(

[her0n]

OMG I thought this job was a certainty for you seeing as the other guy didnt show up?
Damn, thats so harsh they said no.
They must be blind or just suck big time not to choose you!

Jesus cannot get over what a mistake they have just made.. i mean after the flights and... grr i feel so bad for you :(

We will get you pissed at slan ok :)

I went for a job interview today so i'll find out monday.... Sports Assistant at my old college if anyone is wondering :o

[Aardvark]

Damn, that sucks balls. People are just utter arseheads sometimes. I'd employ you!

Although I don't pay much. Don't work for me, seriously. That'd suck.

[K]

Dam that sux, clearly didnt know a good thing when it landed in their lap.

[Pingman]

Omfg that sux much cock, after all that effort you made flying there to get the interview and the other guy not showing up. alot of wtf. Did you ask why you didn't get the job?

Take it that also means you are not selling the vroom vroom :(

[Ryvita]

Thanks for the support all, it helps. Kinda low right now. Grr. I could almost taste the nutty goodness of all that Ferrero Roche.

Have called and asked for feedback, no response yet. I'm guessing I must have made some major blooper somehow, or otherwise tripped some sort of instant failure condition.

Reeeelly lost motivation to go looking now, I was so sure i'd got that nailed. Damn. :(

I'll be right as rain come StratLAN. Much stress relief to be gained in blowing stuff up... :)

Ryv

P.S. Good luck Heron! Have some of the opposite of my kind of luck!

[Boffykins]

Damnit Ryv, so gutted for you. There must be some ****ed up reason for you not getting it. I'm sure something else will come along.

[Mingtea]

Originally posted by Ryvita

I'll be right as rain come StratLAN. Much stress relief to be gained in blowing stuff up... :)


yeah... but no doing that at work, ok?

[lyn]

Could this be one of those cases where they have employed someone internally but have to go thou the interview process anyway?

[Demondan]

Originally posted by lyn
Could this be one of those cases where they have employed someone internally but have to go thou the interview process anyway?

Very possible...although knowing sort of what Ryv does and his exp etc...not sure how likely that would be true in this case.

[afty]

Originally posted by lyn
Could this be one of those cases where they have employed someone internally but have to go thou the interview process anyway? I was just about to type that. So common these days.

[lyn]

I believe it's the law that they have to go thou the process even thou they have employed someone.

[andyf]

Originally posted by Ryvita
or otherwise tripped some sort of instant failure condition.


well, perhaps your suave look (http://andyf.me.uk/media/ryv_suave.jpg) disarmed them nicely, but I still strongly suspect you unconsciously went into mad scientist (http://andyf.me.uk/media/ryv_nukejoy.jpg) mode when 'nuclear' was mentioned in passing.

[her0n]

Thx Ryv.. and those photos above must either be really old or Ryv has uber hair that grows quickly.

/me grabs the clippers..

[andyf]

Originally posted by her0n
Thx Ryv.. and those photos above must either be really old or Ryv has uber hair that grows quickly.

/me grabs the clippers..

Really old? Stafflan 2004 :)

[Cabe]

Bad luck, fate and all that.

Depends on what level of security he needed as well. Civil servant jobs and more importantly MOD jobs need a world of security checks, there is also a level where they have people SHADOW you for weeks to see if your kosher.

and we all know what kind of deviant Ryvita is :)

[Ryvita]

Yes, that's right Cabe, There's no way I'd already be security cleared. Oh no, not at all... :)

Ryv