Bossman had to pull the plug on a dude today. I didn't really care. The dude had poor grooming habits, has been out of the office 8 of the past 22 business days (apparently thinks he's funny and took some time off to try out for Last Comic Standing), doesn't follow the "system", and coughs without covering his mouth.
See, recruiting is a basically a sales job. You call strangers out of the blue and try to tell them that the crappy job you're trying to fill in Pittsburgh is better than the job (you tell them is crappy) that they're currently working in Tampa.
Sometimes, we get sales personalities in that believe that because they had a modicrum of success at selling [insert product here] door-to-door that they'd be awesome doing phone sales. I think phone sales is much harder. When I open my front door to some sales guy, they're much harder to get rid of than some guy on the other end of a phone line. You can't just quietly push a little reciever button and send them on their way. You have to, sometimes rudely, state again and again that you're not interested ("and please don't come back.") More often than not, if you open the door - you're through. You either commit to buying what they're selling or you get on some kind of call-back list to be solicited by their parent company forever more.
Anyway. After two successive weeks of losing the company money that the last guy who had the position earned the dude got booted.
You know what...he played on myspace.com all day and talked to friends on IM. When he made phone calls they lasted the duration of the period between the dialtone and a person picking up.
Tomorrow I'll have to get out my hazmat gear to go disinfect his work area.
Edited to add: is it totally wrong that I just plucked him out of my facebook and myspace friends lists?
Posted by Tiffany at April 3, 2006 04:15 PM | TrackBackI was thinking that it was a little wrong that you had him in there in the first place.
Posted by: Erica at April 3, 2006 05:47 PM