Anyone Fluked a Big Job?

The_Hurricane

Hi All,

Did you or anyone you know fluke your way into a big job and if so how did you/they cope once employed there?

Thanks.

koloko

I managed to get a job as a cardial brain surgeon in the neurology department of a large London hospital for a few weeks last summer.

It wasn't until the 8th or 9th formal NHS audit into patient deaths when they finally caught on!!! Man you should have seen the looks on their faces.

Fun for a while, but now I'm banged up for the next 18-20 years.

stix62

koloko wrote: »

I managed to get a job as a cardial brain surgeon in the neurology department of a large London hospital for a few weeks last summer.

It wasn't until the 8th or 9th formal NHS audit into patient deaths when they finally caught on!!! Man you should have seen the looks on their faces.

Fun for a while, but now I'm banged up for the next 18-20 years.

Is that 19?

It must be a !!!!!! getting to interviews these days, have you considered working from, erm, 'home'?

scooby088

My sister fluked herself in a position of team leader at the place she worked, she told them a bunch of lies saying she had a levels, she is now a senior supervisor and earns around £36k a year. Maybe also she is a hard worker and deserved the promotion from the shopfloor to an office over seeing around 120 employees.

The_Hurricane

scooby088 wrote: »

My sister fluked herself in a position of team leader at the place she worked, she told them a bunch of lies saying she had a levels, she is now a senior supervisor and earns around £36k a year. Maybe also she is a hard worker and deserved the promotion from the shopfloor to an office over seeing around 120 employees.

That's pretty impressive; and did she cope well in the new role?

ditzyat50

I once gave an impressive interview. Got the job. Struggled. 3 months later, got the sack. It's a chance you take.

Reue

I suppose it all depends on your definition of a 'big' job.

Back when I was in secondary school I started at a new school and managed to fake myself as a substitute teacher for my first class. Luckily my parents wernt too cross and dad then laughed it off.

Due to family issues I ran away from home and dreamed of being an airline pilot. After figuring out their pay system and some neat cheque work.. I successfully blagged many free trips 'deadheading' and making a tidy sum too.

Obviously by this point suspicions were raised so I moved town and spotted a lovely girl working as a nurse. I decided to apply at the hospital and got myself on as the night-shift doctor.

As my interest in this nurse grew I met her parents. Her father was a local big lawyer and I decided to move into Law, passing the bar exam and becoming fully qualified.

Eventually this all came to a head and I had to flee abroad to France where im currently located in a small town working my hand back at cheque fraud.

They are still trying to catch me if they can...

Slinky

You worked for PanAm presumably......

scooby088

The_Hurricane wrote: »

That's pretty impressive; and did she cope well in the new role?

I think she was born for the role, she really bossy :rotfl:

tejsmith

I heard of a well paying role within a big company, taught myself the software necessary to blag through the interview, got the job and was promoted 6 months later ahead of people who had been doing the job for years. It can happen! Was also quite fun...

Russe11

I was looking up a number for a company that had been advertising, so I rang up and did my pitch about myself and what I was looking for, half way through the conversation I had it became apparent that I was not talking to the company I thought I had contacted.

As a result I got invited to come and see what the company did and a few months later they invited me back to see if I wanted a job there.

It not a "big job", but it was a bit of a fluke.

If I knew in my mind I was cold calling, then it could we have been that I didn't even get to make the initial contact.