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Apr. 16th, 2013 08:47 amOkay, as promised, I would like to tell you the story of what this place -- let's call them Comic Sans University -- did to me yesterday.
So, as many of you may recall, I applied to a job and received a reply in comic sans font, which I am told is actually a standard font for external replies within Comic Sans University, presumably because it's "friendly".
Yesterday I had a pair of meetings that began early in the morning and lasted until well after lunch. These were meetings that were scheduled, but they still caught me a little off-guard because my life, you guys, MY LIFE.
During one of the meetings I got a phone call from the city Comic Sans University is located in, and at the end of the meeting I checked my voicemail. The voicemail that had been left was from a woman working for Comic Sans University, who gave me a garbled and half-intelligible story about phone errors. She said she'd called my current-place-of-work reference, thinking she would get me -- why? I could not tell you -- so that she could ask permission to check my references.
Now, to begin with, for most positions at this level references are generally checked after you interview -- at my current job they're not even checked until after you've been offered the job. But at least she wanted to ask permission, right?
Except that when she reached my boss instead of me, she decided she didn't really need my permission, and just went ahead with the reference check. With my current boss. Who doesn't know I'm job searching. Or didn't, until yesterday!
So I called her back and told her please DO NOT call my OTHER CURRENT BOSS, THANKS. I'm pretty sure I torpedoed any chance I had of getting an interview, but fuck Comic Sans University, it's not like I was going to take the job there if they offered it. Mum is pretty sure what she did is some kind of illegal, but I don't know. Interstate job sabotage, perhaps?
My boss is super-cool about it; she thought maybe they were running some kind of scam, which is why she mentioned it to me in an email later that day. We talked this morning and I explained that in no way was I ever going to take a job at Comic Sans University, and she actually gave me some really enlightening career advice.
So the net result is a gain, but let this be a lesson to all of you: Never give your phone number to an organisation with poor taste in fonts.
So, as many of you may recall, I applied to a job and received a reply in comic sans font, which I am told is actually a standard font for external replies within Comic Sans University, presumably because it's "friendly".
Yesterday I had a pair of meetings that began early in the morning and lasted until well after lunch. These were meetings that were scheduled, but they still caught me a little off-guard because my life, you guys, MY LIFE.
During one of the meetings I got a phone call from the city Comic Sans University is located in, and at the end of the meeting I checked my voicemail. The voicemail that had been left was from a woman working for Comic Sans University, who gave me a garbled and half-intelligible story about phone errors. She said she'd called my current-place-of-work reference, thinking she would get me -- why? I could not tell you -- so that she could ask permission to check my references.
Now, to begin with, for most positions at this level references are generally checked after you interview -- at my current job they're not even checked until after you've been offered the job. But at least she wanted to ask permission, right?
Except that when she reached my boss instead of me, she decided she didn't really need my permission, and just went ahead with the reference check. With my current boss. Who doesn't know I'm job searching. Or didn't, until yesterday!
So I called her back and told her please DO NOT call my OTHER CURRENT BOSS, THANKS. I'm pretty sure I torpedoed any chance I had of getting an interview, but fuck Comic Sans University, it's not like I was going to take the job there if they offered it. Mum is pretty sure what she did is some kind of illegal, but I don't know. Interstate job sabotage, perhaps?
My boss is super-cool about it; she thought maybe they were running some kind of scam, which is why she mentioned it to me in an email later that day. We talked this morning and I explained that in no way was I ever going to take a job at Comic Sans University, and she actually gave me some really enlightening career advice.
So the net result is a gain, but let this be a lesson to all of you: Never give your phone number to an organisation with poor taste in fonts.
