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| Faringdon:
Hi, On thurs 4 nov I had a very brief Teams interview with a company that said they needed me to come and design a circuit for them. They then gave me the job and started me on 9th nov at £35k per annum (pro rata, 6 month contract). When I got there for the first day, the engineer showed me to my desk. He was speaking very quickly to me, not letting me ever get a word in edgeways. I was going to be reliant on this engineer for everything I was to do at the company...eg find a lab space, get electronics equipment, order stuff, etc etc…..i was totally dependent on him. Anyway, he printed off a schem of a 24V PSU with a discrete post regulator just downstream of it. The schem had no identification on it….no saying what the max power was, etc etc. He also printed off for me a 12 page article, of a mosfet based class B amplifier. There was a schematic of the class B amp in this article. He told me that I would have to use the class B schem as it appeared in that article. He told me not to try and Bull***t him into doing something different. He told me to use the schem pretty well exactly as it was shown, and that at the most, I was to change a maximum of only 5 components, if any at all. He told me that he had been working at the company for 30 years and implied that he knew what he was on about. He went off in a babble about Poles and zero's and gain and phase margins. He told me that if at some point he ever asked me to add a decoupling capacitor somewhere, then I should ruddy well do this, and I should not complain about it. Whilst he was talking to me, I could literally not get a word in edgeways. I wanted to ask him what the application was, and what the spec was. But as discussed, I could not get a word in sideways! I wondered why I had been employed at all. I couldn’t understand why he was expecting me to be the design authority for the circuit, when I didn’t even know what the spec or application was, and with his 30 years of experience, why did he even need me at all? I wouldnt object to him doing the circuit by himself, but why was he insisting that my name was to go on it as if I had designed it? Then , he had to go to a meeting with some suppliers for 2 hours. He told me to simulate the discrete post regulator whilst he was in the meeting. But i wondered how i was going to properly simulate anything without knowing the spec or the application. Anyway, Whilst he was in the meeting, I went fishing through the company computer system to try and find out what the project was about. So far, it seemed to me that it might be an audio amplifier circuit. Anyway, after 90 mins of searching, I finally discovered what the application was. But I couldn’t find the spec. The application was not audio. Not in the least bit. I was baffled as to why a class B amplifier was coming into it, as this application usually just demanded a simple DC current source. Anyway, when he came back from his meeting, I tried to ask him for the spec. However, he caught me mid sentence, and began lambasting me with words again...He then gave me a 3.5 hour lecture on the road system in the city where we were at. Again, I couldn’t get a word in edgeways...he spoke solidly, without gaps. Anyway, he then got up to go home...and he stood over me, as i was sat at the desk, and reminded me again not to bull***t him, and that I should stick to the schem he had shown me. Anyway, after he had gone home, the project manager came up to me, and told me that I had better get a move on, as the project was due to be finished “last month”. However, i did not even know what the spec was. I only knew the application because i eventually managed to fish it out of the computer system whilst he was in the meeting earlier. When I got home that evening. I wrote them an email saying that I would be signing off, not going back in. It seemed to me that it was a waste of time for them to parade me as the designer of a circuit , without telling me anything about it…..and the fact that the engineer had told me he was the bees knees, with his 30 years of experience etc etc….so I told them that they’d probably only be hampered if I stayed, and so for their sake, I was leaving. I told them I would not need to be payed for the day, and apologised for their wasted time. I did add that if they (for whatever reason) found themselves without their high calibre electronics engineers in the near future, then I would gladly come and work on it. But that for now, I’d only be holding up their 30 year , high calibre electronics engineer. Anyway…...they have now told recruitment consultants that I bottled it, and just walked off after day one. So now these recruitment consultants are finding out from the web who else I have applied to, and are advising them not to employ me as I “walked off on the first day”….and then most probably advising that they employ their own candidate instead of myself. And as a result , I don’t seem to be getting any more luck with my job applications now. Does anyone know the way round this? Have you had the same thing happen? |
| m98:
You must be a magnet for bizarre life stories. Anyways, maybe I'm missing the intricate details of the UK job market, but why would they take such offense by you quitting during the probation period? And why haven't you dropped those "recruitment consultants" already, as they apparently aren't particularly helpful in finding you an appropriate job? |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: m98 on November 20, 2021, 09:56:17 pm ---You must be a magnet for bizarre life stories. Anyways, maybe I'm missing the intricate details of the UK job market, but why would they take such offense by you quitting during the probation period? And why haven't you dropped those "recruitment consultants" already, as they apparently aren't particularly helpful in finding you an appropriate job? --- End quote --- This guy has weird stories, but here it's not all surprising. Recruiting agencies do not like people flaking out, even when that's their right and it's perfectly justified. From the agency's POV, the client is the company, the client IS right, and the agency "promised" them a good selected candidate. When things go sour, the agency will lose some credit. The fact they will adivse others to put the candidate on a black list is pretty horrible, but I have seen that happen as well. They just want to maximize their success rates. And this is kind of a rotten "industry" for a large part. |
| tggzzz:
--- Quote from: Faringdon on November 20, 2021, 08:44:39 pm ---.Anyway…...they have now told recruitment consultants that I bottled it, and just walked off after day one. --- End quote --- Well, you did walk out after 1 day. You have cut into the pimps' money stream, and they don't like that. --- Quote ---So now these recruitment consultants are finding out from the web who else I have applied to, and are advising them not to employ me as I “walked off on the first day”….and then most probably advising that they employ their own candidate instead of myself. --- End quote --- How, exactly, are they "finding out from the web?" Your lightweight options are to find other pimps, and to bypass the pimps by locating job openings yourself. Heavyweight options require solid proof and legal remedies. |
| ataradov:
Given your previous posts on this forum (including being banned multiple times), I would not hire you either for anything. |
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