Today’s example is not a typical call into us (thankfully) but shows, at the end of the day, it’s a job that involves people contact. Sometimes someone somewhere may be having a bad day…

The phone goes..

ME: “Good morning, Jump IT Recruitment, how can I help you?”

A rather brusque male voice says, ‘I’m looking for work?’

As we get about 10-20 calls each day from candidates asking for general office, warehouse work, basically jobs we don’t deal with, I have honed my answering gambit and replied:

ME: “OK sir, you are through to Jump IT Recruitment Solutions Limited we only deal with IT jobs. Do you have IT experience?”

HIM: ‘I’ve used Microsoft Office’

ME: “OK, the type of jobs we tend to get are software developers, product managers, and cloud engineers. Quite technical IT-based roles?”

HIM. ‘I have an HNC course in electrical programming.’

ME: “To be honest, I don’t think we may be best placed to help you. Where do you live? I may be able to suggest another recruiter who can help?”

HIM: ‘I am homeless, so I will go anywhere’

ME: “OK, it’s more about the type of job or work you are after”

HIM. ‘Are you calling me incompetent?’

ME: “No, all I was saying is…”

HIM: Interupts me trying to explain my answer to say loudly ‘F@**you, you XXXX’ and puts the phone down.

Thank you.
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