Nothing infuriates me as much as people who argue with statements of fact when facts belie their simple-minded beliefs, like “you can do anything you set your mind to”.
I refer to a conversation I had yesterday with a state employee who stubbornly asserted that anyone can be a successful salesperson, regardless of age, gender or appearance.
That’s just flat-out stupid.
Salespeople, at least in the Northeast, are all young, good-looking and wear clothes well – an army of Obama variants, people who can mesmerize you into buying whatever they’re selling even if you’re not sure what it is because they look and sound good.
My head is spinning from the amount of nonsense that’s in the air these days, so much so that it’s spilling over from the MSM to everyday life.
One of the booricons who works for Atlantis Partners in Copley Square asked me if I could drop by his office, considering that I was going to be in Waltham, “only ten minutes away”.
I explained to him that I wouldn’t have use of a vehicle, I was carpooling with a friend, so since Waltham is only ten minutes from Boston, why didn’t he come out to meet me?
Thus followed an argument that turned increasingly vicious.
I suspect that someone’s idea of an incentive plan was responsible for this, and a smidgeon of honesty would have been refreshing. Something like, “Look, I get a SPIF for everyone I meet – in my office – but nothing if I meet them in the field,”.
But, no, there have to be elaborate rationales, verbal humiliation and the rest of it, not a simple, respectful, peer-to-peer conversation, but a perverse, idiotic battle for control.
In fact, this is called “candidate control”, and it’s based on strong-arming and guilt-tripping throughout the placement process.
Atlantis and their evil twin, Remington International, are not alone, there are far too many bad recruiting firms and far too many bad recruiters.
Why hiring managers continue to talk to them should tell you something about the sorry state of American business, at least in these parts.