Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

Too stressful, our vendors are upping the anti again. we're meant to be exchanging next week ...now everything is unsure again.

harryhound

If you are working for a commercial organisation you will be expected to earn your keep.
If you are bringing in wonderful profits you will be well paid and secure. If your department (profit centre) starts losing money, you are likely to be made redundant.
That simple business model tends to concentrate minds and force people get on with the job, however many potential personal difficulties between them there might be.

Once the objectives become "woolly", it is difficult to measure performance and there is a need to work for a higher morality; then the difficulties come to the fore; especially if there are a number of unsackable volunteers.
Politics and back-biting come to the fore and factions develop if its all "democratic" and if its "autocratic" then it can become unbearable. (Or you can just have a good winge).

Don't expect the normal pressures of getting along with your fellow workers to be easier in a charity - you may need to call upon enhanced interpersonal skills to keep on an even keel.

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

Too stressful, our vendors are upping the anti again. we're meant to be exchanging next week ...now everything is unsure again.

Eeekkk, what sort of thing are they doing?

LydiaJ

lostinrates wrote: »

Too stressful, our vendors are upping the anti again. we're meant to be exchanging next week ...now everything is unsure again.

Hope it works out OK

nembot

If they ask "is a jaffa cake, a biscuit or a cake?" the correct answer is "cake"

I've used it when interviewing quite a few people, their answer really isn't important - the reaction to the question is, especially if they disagree.

Shame that a cake can stop someone getting a job, but that's how it goes

GL!

lostinrates

LydiaJ wrote: »

Hope it works out OK

things are more hopefull this afternoon. all this fo the right to hang a couple of pictures :rotfl:

fc123

lostinrates wrote: »

things are more hopefull this afternoon. all this fo the right to hang a couple of pictures :rotfl:

Oh Come on vendors.....these are The Pefect Owners....stop dilly dallying and trying to weedle a bit more £££.....let them have it and make it their own.

I mean, you aren't going to get mega bucks from a London weekender on this due to particular issues (it would scare them off) so who is the pen pusher trying to much up this offer? Do they get bonus' for the extra they may get into the public purse? Don't they understand a bird in the hand (LIR's offer) is better than one in the [STRIKE]bush[/STRIKE] hedge?

Are they going to keep on marketing to try to get and extra few ££££? Makes me cross TBH. It's not their right..it's their duty to consider the best and most appropriate offer and get on with it as quickly as poss.

I am with you in spirit LIR.

fc123

nembot wrote: »

If they ask "is a jaffa cake, a biscuit or a cake?" the correct answer is "cake"

I've used it when interviewing quite a few people, their answer really isn't important - the reaction to the question is, especially if they disagree.

Shame that a cake can stop someone getting a job, but that's how it goes

GL!

Why do you ask that?

lostinrates

fc123 wrote: »

Oh Come on vendors.....these are The Pefect Owners....stop dilly dallying and trying to weedle a bit more £££.....let them have it and make it their own.

I mean, you aren't going to get mega bucks from a London weekender on this due to particular issues (it would scare them off) so who is the pen pusher trying to much up this offer? Do they get bonus' for the extra they may get into the public purse? Don't they understand a bird in the hand (LIR's offer) is better than one in the [STRIKE]bush[/STRIKE] hedge?

Are they going to keep on marketing to try to get and extra few ££££? Makes me cross TBH. It's not their right..it's their duty to consider the best and most appropriate offer and get on with it as quickly as poss.

I am with you in spirit LIR.

FC, you are such a good friend. It seems so odd we've never physically met!

After a good old fashioned tantrum I think the issue is ok. Its a short time frame, but a doable one. I spent most of today trying to calm down after using words like ''honourable'' very loudly.. TBH I think I'm quite lucky in who their agents are: they have succeeded in annoying them to with all this.

nembot

I think these type of questions are becoming more common in interviews, especially in larger companies were you are customer facing or dealing with clients globally.

You can teach decent people technical skills, but idiots with a specific skillset are almost useless - unless that is, you can lock them away in a room away from the sensible people.

Common sense is something people have, but there's no way to measure it - a few cunning questions, to poke the applicant a particular direction soon highlights any concerns that an apptitude test would miss.

I've dismissed people due to their responses from that exact question.

One guy got really annoyed, when we gave him the answer and simply would not accept it - unsuprisingly, he wasn't offered a position.