GasGas:
More generally, employers don’t seem to realise that reputation counts.I worked for a company which had an aggressive hire 'em, fire 'em sales team manager. People would be engaged on promises on huge earnings, choice of cars etc. They never lasted long…they’d either be sacked for not hitting their (unattainable) targets, or realise that those targets (and thus the promised earnings) could never be attained. We had one lass walk out at lunchtime on her induction day!
But the guy running the sales dept never seemed to learn…until one day he posted his usual sit vac advert and got no responses. Within a week there were empty chairs and unanswered phones in the sales dept
He asked me why…I said he had simply burned through most of the potential recruits in the area already, and the rest knew what the company’s reputation was because they knew people who had worked for him and didn’t want to repeat the experience.
He seemed genuinely surprised…and ironically got sacked himself not long after.
The clichéd wisecracks are running through my head like slot machine reels! 