Today’s Rant

Earlier this week a pimp^Wrecruiter called and asked whether I’d be interested in going on a job interview on Thursday. I told him, “Fine, what’s the job?” He had no spec, only the name of the company.

I told him, “OK, send me what you’ve got and I’m free at 3pm on Thursday.”

No email from him ever came. So I thought he either hadn’t been able to get the appointment or he’d lost interest in me as an interviewee. In addition, like all the other pimps^Wrecruiters, he withholds his phone number when he calls so that companies he’s cold calling can’t tell it’s him when he calls them to beg for a job to fill. So I didn’t have his email address or his phone number. I promptly forgot about it.

This afternoon, at 2 pm, I got a call. It was the recruiter. “Are you ready for your interview?” he said, brightly? I said, “No, you never got back to me.” “I sent you an email!” he said, indignantly. I checked MailWasher’s email log afterwards, and nothing came from his address so he’d not sent it, but that’s beside the point. I said, “I’m not prepared for a 3 pm interview as I’d assumed I wouldn’t have one today. I can do a 4pm.” He got back to me and said that was OK.

It’s a firm that’s basically in the same boat as my last permanent job: a relatively young company which has invested in developers and support staff but has not invested in testing. They don’t have any testers at all.

I think I did OK, and the job would be interesting. I think my price is a bit steep for them, but I’m not budging. If they have no testing function at all, and they want me to start one, they’ll have to pay me more than Searchspace paid me when I started there 6 years ago. Inflation, you know. I’m looking for

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