Blog Sixteen: Christ, It's Christmas
So the Christmas plans have gone to hell and back thanks to a lack of, shall we say, a cooperative Christmas spirit. Snaby Girl's family promised to come down for dinner, then bailed last night - I had called them when they mentioned this, so God knows when they were planning to tell us, and I suspect had I not called they would not have bothered to tell us until the day of the event - and torpedoed the entire affair, for no good reason at all. (Basically, they don't feel like it.) This led to what now stands as a major rift in the maternal side of the family. We'll see. Fortunately, TCB and her boyfriend, who will be known by a succession of names beginning with D - so tonight he's David - are coming over to help consume the enormous turkey Snaby Girl's family chose to snub.
My recent activity has been composing DVDs of the Small Girl footage we've been shooting; given the right software, and I got a recommendation to some GREAT software, it's shockingly easy. Small Girl DVDs for all! Place your order now!
In other news, I got a call from a recruiting agency. The message they left simply said "Please call about your resume. Thanks." So I call them, while moving TCB and Doug's stuff, and this conversation ensues:
VOICE: AB Group.
ME: Yes, my name is Richard Jones. You left a message asking me to call.
VOICE: Ah yes, we would like to go over your resume. Are you available at 3 PM Thursday?
ME: Uh, I suppose.
VOICE: Yes, please be here at (address.) If you must cancel please give us 24 hours of notice.
(Long pause as I try to figure out what the hell is going on.)
ME: Who is us?
VOICE: Pardon?
ME: You said "please give us 24 hours of notice." Who're you?
VOICE: We're AB Group.
ME: ... Go on.
VOICE: Pardon?
ME: What is AB Group?
VOICE: We're a staffing firm. We would like you to come in to go over your resume.
ME: How did you get my resume?
VOICE: I don't know.
(Stunned silence)
ME: You don't know how you got my resume?
VOICE: I am just an administrative assistant. I make calls.
ME: Why do you want me to come in?
VOICE: Steven Whatshisname works with many companies in your field and would like to go over your resume. Are you currently employed?
(NOTE: The only place they could have gotten my resume is Workopolis. It says on my resume, very clearly, that I am employed.)
ME: (Distracted by traffic) I'll see you Thursday at 3.
Later I said the hell with it, and cancelled and said I'd rebook in the New Year.
Who calls someone and says "Please come in to meet with us" and doesn't say who they are??
My recent activity has been composing DVDs of the Small Girl footage we've been shooting; given the right software, and I got a recommendation to some GREAT software, it's shockingly easy. Small Girl DVDs for all! Place your order now!
In other news, I got a call from a recruiting agency. The message they left simply said "Please call about your resume. Thanks." So I call them, while moving TCB and Doug's stuff, and this conversation ensues:
VOICE: AB Group.
ME: Yes, my name is Richard Jones. You left a message asking me to call.
VOICE: Ah yes, we would like to go over your resume. Are you available at 3 PM Thursday?
ME: Uh, I suppose.
VOICE: Yes, please be here at (address.) If you must cancel please give us 24 hours of notice.
(Long pause as I try to figure out what the hell is going on.)
ME: Who is us?
VOICE: Pardon?
ME: You said "please give us 24 hours of notice." Who're you?
VOICE: We're AB Group.
ME: ... Go on.
VOICE: Pardon?
ME: What is AB Group?
VOICE: We're a staffing firm. We would like you to come in to go over your resume.
ME: How did you get my resume?
VOICE: I don't know.
(Stunned silence)
ME: You don't know how you got my resume?
VOICE: I am just an administrative assistant. I make calls.
ME: Why do you want me to come in?
VOICE: Steven Whatshisname works with many companies in your field and would like to go over your resume. Are you currently employed?
(NOTE: The only place they could have gotten my resume is Workopolis. It says on my resume, very clearly, that I am employed.)
ME: (Distracted by traffic) I'll see you Thursday at 3.
Later I said the hell with it, and cancelled and said I'd rebook in the New Year.
Who calls someone and says "Please come in to meet with us" and doesn't say who they are??
posted by RickJay @ 10:15 PM
1 Comments:
At 8:41 PM,
Carlyjayjay said…
One of those places called me about a year ago, actually. It was Primerica. They said they'd received my resume from someone. (The only places I'd dropped off resumes were restaurants.) They said they wanted to train me to be a manager of a financial facility of some kind. It was--SURPRISE!--a huuuuuge pyramid scheme. I listened politely to the lady on the phone, and then told her I was not interested. Who falls for these things?
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