Beware: NET-A-PORTER

[Kieren Diment]

On 09/12/2011, at 22:25, Ian Knopke <ian.knopke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, I'm finding this quite informative.
> 

The whole corporate behaviour thing is pretty interesting. When I do research on the topic, me and my ethics committee are generally pretty careful about the who and how we mention sensitive stuff. 

My worst recruitment experience resulted in me getting a small cheque at the end for my expenses after I had a whine at them (and their overly elaborate recruitment process). Things were fairly bad for me work-wise at the time, and I ended up having to pawn my wetsuit not long afterwards.  Which in turn closed the door on a career change to illegal abalone fisherman for me. 


>> From what I've seen Net a Porter does quite a bit to maintain good
> relationships with the Perl community and I've heard a lot of good
> things about them in the past from friends working there.
> 
> It sounds like the recruitment agency could be the real source of
> problems here. Maybe that's who we should really be talking about.
> 
> 
> Ian Knopke
> BBC
> 
> 
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Steve Mynott <steve at gruntling.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 10:13:49PM -0500, Rudolf Lippan typed:
>> 
>>> About six weeks ago, I was contacted by a recruiter and asked if I was
>>> interested in a team lead position in New Jersey, and so begins my story.
>> 
>> I've no particular reason to defend NAP or doubt your story but publically
>> publishing complaints about recruitment doesn't strike me as professional.
>> 
>> Shit happens.  Deal with it.  We have all been messed around.
>> 
>> Save the venting for the pub or IRC.
>> 
>> --
>> Steve Mynott <steve at gruntling.com>
>