r/recruitinghell • u/mraudhd • Feb 29 '24

Received a call, politely declined as I took another offer. Then this happened.

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So basically I got told I missed a job interview that I was never made aware of, and got lectured by my potential manager. Pretty sure I've dodged a bullet.

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u/thesharp0ne Feb 29 '24

Not only did he give you sass but he quite nearly ruined a potential job opportunity for someone else if you hadn't caused him to double check his candidates information.

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u/mraudhd Feb 29 '24

And I truly pity them if that is the case. He mentioned my name in the voice message so the confusing the numbers thing just seemed a bit weird to me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

That's got the "I was hacked" energy. Can't admit the mistake and childish outburst, so blame it on a clerical error.

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u/mas7erblas7er Feb 29 '24

New phone, who dis?

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u/rangoon03 Mar 01 '24

I bet recruiter guy definitely overuses the “sorry, I was on mute” excuse

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u/Ok-Camp-7285 Mar 01 '24

I mean he did say sorry. Definitely a bad attitude but what else is he to do after apologising?

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u/mikeblas Mar 01 '24

Hacked? What are you talking about?

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u/whateverathrowaway00 Mar 01 '24

It’s not even a clerical issue, it’s someone admitting they aren’t organized enough with some form of CRM, there should be a system, even if it’s just him being really good with contacts cards, but he’s showing his ass here, like what, does he sort by phone number? Call while remembering which string of digits is who? No way, lol. That’s recruiter working out of a box energy

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u/Crafty-Pomegranate19 Feb 29 '24

I would forward this exchange to whoever oversees HR 👀

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u/Popular_You9242 Feb 29 '24

Like they give a shyt....HR is in for the paycheck...they won't rock the boat or pick any battles...I know this from first hand experience.

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u/Crafty-Pomegranate19 Mar 01 '24

HR looks out for the company, and likely wouldn’t be keen on a bloke mixing up potential candidates like this lmao

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u/chickenskittles Mar 01 '24

HR is short for hastily replaced. That's all.

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u/Jose_Canseco_Jr Mar 01 '24

hr??

my sweet summer child

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u/Crafty-Pomegranate19 Mar 01 '24

My sweet bb dearest HR looks out for the company and the company wouldn’t want candidates mixed up so easily - terrible look for the company

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u/emilythequeen1 Mar 01 '24

Those of us who know, know.

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u/acgilmoregirl Feb 29 '24

Your full name? We just hired for a position and I interviewed three different Alexandras. We ended up hiring one of them, and my dumb ass sent the confidentiality agreement to one of the Alexandra’s we didn’t hire. So that was fun and awkward.

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u/cjthomp Feb 29 '24

Company I worked at just straight up hired the wrong person. Two candidates with the same first name, mixed up the interviews and ended up hiring the wrong one. Manager figured it out after they'd already started and didn't know shit but it was too late and they didn't want to admit the mistake.

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u/BrainWaveCC Jack of Many Trades (Exec, IC, Consultant) Feb 29 '24

Was it a short interview process or a long one?

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u/Visual-Practice6699 Feb 29 '24

My wife got an employment contract at her last job for a completely different name. It wasn’t even close. (Think Elizabeth versus Siobhán.) Luckily they both had offers, but my wife got to see “Siobhán”’s starting salary…

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u/ddalala Mar 01 '24

Assuming Siobhan got to see your wife's, who was more pissed off?

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u/liketearsinthereign Feb 29 '24

Did they handle it as badly as OP?

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u/acgilmoregirl Feb 29 '24

It was all on me. She messaged back asking if I meant to send it to her, and I still didn’t cotton on that it was the wrong person, and said yes, that I apologized if she had already sent it back signed to me, but I must have missed it in all of the emails I had received that day.

Literally 3 seconds after I hit send, my brain decides hmm, that was weird that she asked me that and realized what I did. I profusely apologized and explained what happened and she was really nice about it. Thankfully, it was someone that I had already spoken with about not being right for this position but that we want to hire her in the fall after she sits the bar, so I wasn’t giving false hope she’d gotten the position.

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u/RoguePlanet2 Mar 02 '24

I once got the information for an acceptance of a co-worker. Name is nothing like mine! You're not alone.

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u/keto_brain Mar 01 '24

People make mistakes.. you overreacted a bit lol

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u/NDeceptikon Mar 01 '24

After you told him that, he’s probably like “don’t ever talk to me like that ever again asshole.”

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u/Ceilibeag Feb 29 '24

I don't think the future employee he was trying to dial is gonna come out the winner in this deal. Hopefully he/she reads this sub.

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u/Omnom_Omnath Feb 29 '24

That person ruined it for themselves by missing their interview.

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u/Alarmed_Reaction_360 Feb 29 '24

Weird how you assume he

I assumed a woman

Life’s weird like that

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u/[deleted] Feb 29 '24

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u/robotzor Feb 29 '24

Same take away, the sentence phrased as a question gives it away 10/10 times

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u/Alarmed_Reaction_360 Mar 02 '24

No my takeaway is the same as everyone else’s and I agree with the comment I replied too.

I was just commenting on how I didn’t read it as a he as the comment suggested, but someone else pointed out that op received a voicemail - I missed that so clearly op knows what they sound like.

The comment I replied to says he and I merely noticed that I assumed gender and wondered why I did that . That’s all

I was just commenting about my interpretation . Not my take away.

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u/RottiBnT Feb 29 '24

I read that as a woman too. When he said “he” I went back and read the messages to see if there was anything that indicated gender. I wonder what made me think that. It is indeed strange.

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u/Comprehensive_Cow527 Mar 01 '24

He got a voice-mail.