Craziness

Guys what is going on in this world, I quit my well paid job back in October to move onwards in my career and still find myself watching sky sports news allday whilst dropping crumbs from cheap loaves of bread bought from asdas discount range into my bed.Even the cost of bread has gone crazy!it used to be 12p a loaf when I was a student 6 years ago its now 45p!

Ive set up this blog to try and help all job hunters out there understand it is not just them!I want to show everyone how hard it is with the so called called credit crunch caused by annoying side-parted American bankers and investors who have reduced me to sitting on the internet 12 hours a day hunting for my living (mixed with breaks of xbox and green tea). Each day I will give little tales about recruitment consultants I encounter, lovely people in the job centre when I am signing on and other weird and wonderful things that happen to me as I scrape through life.

By the way I will tell you about this one guy who called me this morning from a recruitment company. He left me a voicemail with the usual consultant script of,

"Hi, hope you are well" Sorry I have to stop here, well?, well?, I'm not well mate I've got no poxy job and I'm having to pay 33p extra for my sodding bread when I have less money than when I was a student!

He continued,"I've come across your CV online and read it with great interest and very keen discuss you career aspirations."Next time one of these robots calls you please feel free to read along. "I'm working on a number of positions that you would be suitable for please call me back on 07xxx xxxxxx. am looking forward to hearing from you."

Now I've got previous with these guys, some are really great and friendly and some are the biggests c**ts ever. I bet you can guess which type of one this guy was! When I called back I spoke to a junior (I can tell these things) wh0 sounded like a cat that had been stood on! He breathlessly told me that the guy was on the other line and would call me back. After scraping the crumbs out my bed and cleaning my teeth I rush back into my room to pick up my ringing phone. I thought I would pre-empt the pillock with his own tatter, "Hi hope your well", this was even before he said anything. He must have got so confused, I can just imagine him looking at his script thinking I'm going to look like a prat if I say the same thing back. Obviously not!"Hi, hope your well"! I couldn't hold back a little chuckle and I'm sure he realised why! He asked me about my experience which I knew was not what the jobs he was trying to fill were looking for so it was going sour quick. This is the point I decided to play the game how long can I keep him on the phone for. Its a bit like Des O' Connors Yes/No game where you ask as many questions as possible that he has to answer so as not to seem rude but obviously wants to go as he has much less time than I do! For 22 mins and 21secs he sounded like an adolescent teenager grunting at its parents. I think my last question was do you like prodigys new albumn?With a quick "I havent heard it"he said I really must go and wished me well. I felt content and accomplished with my 23 mins worth of work and I wished him farewell only for him to call me a completely random name. He must have been thrown off his script and lost all comprehension of what he was doing or saying! At least he will remeber me from the rest of the day and I bet I've just got prodigy another sale!