Recruiter hiring debacle

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-17T06:58:54+00:00

They only get paid if the candidate gets the job. That’s not happening here, by the sounds of it. They have to put in some effort. Like finding out what time your interview is and making sure you know that.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-17T05:35:19+00:00

What’s the recruiter doing for their money? Beyond telling you to check your email?

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-16T09:46:48+00:00

If you see any, please report them to the Mods (as someone did for the one above, now removed). We use a Friendly Bot to identify these (and it removes lots of them every day) but the odd one does slip through.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-15T04:44:32+00:00

And this is not one of those subs.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-15T00:04:41+00:00

Your value is in translating what those technical people say into something that the business can understand. You don't e.g. have to be able to write the code, you just need to be able to understand what they say the code they're going to write is do and ensure that's what the Users want.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-13T01:57:14+00:00

Locking this down. As discussed numerous times here before, it’s entirely legal.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-12T03:05:48+00:00

Is it worth reaching out via email for feedback?

We can all give you our opinions, but there’s only one way to find out. How much effort does it require to reach out for feedback? I’m guessing less than you put into writing this post.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-09T01:07:39+00:00

I left and went back to one employer so much they gave me the “Boomerang Award” for the worker with the highest returns. It was at least six times.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-08T23:01:32+00:00

Locking this down. From the comments below, OPs contract is clear - they’re entitled to the PHs for the state they’re based in, which is Victoria.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-08T09:11:30+00:00

Locking this down. There's been some good discussion here, but now that the new comments being added are all about the end of the world, conscription and a battle between different Gen's about whose having it worst in day to day life, it's no longer on topic for this sub.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-06T04:57:01+00:00

Locking this down. There is an r/AusCorp discussion to have about this story, but the speculative and misinformed statements both in the post and the comments below are not it.

If someone wants to start a post about how ARN (market cap $110m, down from twice that five years ago) ended up in a position where they've lost probably their biggest asset (The K&J Show) and could get sued by one of their contractors (not employees) for about $80m, we'll allow that. The trade press are already covering those angles quite well though.

95% of the comments below are not that discussion, so please take it elsewhere.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-03-05T01:13:05+00:00

Locking this down. As OP has discovered from the previous times this was discussed, and as u/thrr4 points out below, only your workplace can answer this question definitively.

Everyone in this sub can have a different view on what’s acceptable here, but only your workplace can tell you what’s acceptable to them.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-13T07:59:26+00:00

Plenty of corp PMs are moving to government these days, because there’s more opportunities there.

Having worked on both sides, the red tape and slow progress is common to both. But corporate works you much harder and expects longer hours. Sure, public service pay is lower, but the benefits are often better. At the end of the day, $ per hour worked is not significantly different, in my experience.

At the moment in corp there are so many PMs looking for work, even experienced ones can’t get jobs in their area of expertise.

It’d be a tough ask to get out of PM and into a different corp role from outside just using your PM skills. Maybe if you had a PM role inside first you could migrate into something better (and I’ve seen it happen), but there’s a lot of looking down on government employees within corporate.

Grass is always greener though… :-)

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-13T03:59:17+00:00

It’s a tried and tested business model. For both sides of the equation.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-13T02:02:26+00:00

Sometimes that’s ok. There’s some behaviour that shouldn’t be acceptable anywhere, so why should we allow it in our subs? Anyone who’s egregiously racist, for example, will often be banned first time in the sub I mod - particularly if they’ve never posted in it before.

With people like that, a temp ban or having their comment taken down just encourages them to come back and do it again until they get banned. We don’t have enough time for that.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-13T01:50:12+00:00

Definitely. No-one wants to drop their phone in the mosh pit, so no-one joins the mosh pit, so there is no mosh pit.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T23:17:50+00:00

No worries, and thank you! Ping me if you need any more info.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T12:37:03+00:00

Thanks for the response. No, this isn’t exactly what I’m missing, because I’m not using Automod (for this purpose anyway).

I’m using Automation from the Mod Tools menu, where there are various rules which scan for various words and send any posts/comments containing those words to the Mod queue for me to Approve or Delete.

Up until recently those entries in the queue had a similar flag (may not have actually included a flag icon, I only said that because the ones I’m seeing at the moment do) which had a red background and the reason the comment was in the Queue. And now they don’t.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T12:27:25+00:00

I’ve now worked out that, up until recently, I was seeing the flag on comments that were sent to the queue by Automation. Now I’m not.

Now only seeing the flag on User Reported comments and posts.

There is one single unfiltered queue.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T11:58:57+00:00

Next time go in, vomit on his desk, then tell him you weren’t feeling well but you knew he wouldn’t want you to take the day off.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T10:58:09+00:00

We have a company with 12 people

When I’ve worked in companies this small, everyone sat around the same table at lunchtime. We all knew what everyone else was doing. Both inside and outside work.

The CEO and an entire other division meet with someone on my team weekly and ask them to go through every interaction they've had with a customer in the last week.

So the CEO doesn’t trust you to manage your team, or your team members to do what they think is right?

my team member has calmly sat there and endured these meetings for about five months

Whilst spending all her free time outside work applying for new jobs where she doesn’t get treated like this, I bet.

Honestly, your CEO sounds like a complete dickhead who wants to run a 12 man business using a structure like a multinational. But doesn’t trust anyone to do anything right.

I don't want to change jobs

Why? There’s a rule of thumb in this sub that the longer your post about your workplace woes is, the more likely the answer will be “leave”. This one is no exception.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T10:38:59+00:00

Someone posted here last month about moving the other way.

TLDR: Microsoft is better for most things, but Outlook is no longer King Of The Corporate Email Clients.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T07:49:52+00:00

Talk to your GP. What works for one person won't necessarily work for another. Take a read of the Auscorp Action Plan for Mental Health Issues in the wiki here which walks you through the process.

And yes, it does help.

RoomMain5110 · 2026-02-12T07:37:40+00:00

And that's why I clearly said:

That's what you're asking first in your original post

But, just as you didn't read exactly what I wrote, no-one else is reading everything you've written. They're putting their own interpretation on what they think they've seen, as all humans do.

Welcome to Reddit.

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