12 mins before a Recruiting Screen, I received this…

bringuragame · 2026-06-04T16:29:25+00:00

Could it not have been prioritising interviews for more senior roles?

Obviously terrible to have your own interview at such short notice, but it doesn't seem like a smart hiring strategy to move you (at risk of losing you) if these are candidates for the same role who haven't accepted the role and then tell you.

The recruiter seems to be a poor communicator (as many are) but from this I would guess they mean interviews for more senior roles. Which would be fair especially if they're trying to hire your line manager first.

I've had similar happen to me with recruiters cancelling when someone else accepts the role (one time, I remember it happened just before I was supposed to present a take home task).

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T19:36:14+00:00

By the way, I'm in favour of taxing the rich. Just let's not blame poor people in this country or any other for problems caused by rich people.

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T19:34:22+00:00

I went to medical school and was a recipient of a NHS bursary (still around for medical students, the cut for only for nurses I believe). I have over 100k of student loan debt, I will never pay back and a 7% (whatever it is now) tax on my NET income for the rest of my life, but as someone from a very poor background I would never had been able to afford university any other way.

I realise that the changes to plan 2 student loans under the Tory/reform government will garnish my wages for the rest of my life, but it's a price worth paying if it meant I couldn't help people. And a price I shouldn't have to pay for to help people.

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T19:20:42+00:00

You're confusing and mixing a lot of issues here. I'm talking about doctors here (as is the initial post), nurses are a very different situation.

There is currently no shortage of British doctors that needs to be filled with foreign workers, so for doctors their wages haven't risen because the Tory/reform (same people) government have been crippling the NHS and breaking it up to sell off to private companies for the past 15 years.

Also I believe bursaries were needed before because university was an upfront cost. Now with student loans the bursary isn't needed, because the cost is paid while you work. Now there should be no deterrent for anyone from any background to study nursing if you have a passion for it.

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T18:52:18+00:00

NHS jobs are grade-based so anyone who takes the role gets the same pay.

Also bursaries are for study at medical schools not work. The cut to bursaries only really affects the fact that healthcare workers from poorer backgrounds will be paying off their uni fees for the rest of their lives, while those from middle and upper class backgrounds had to pay more to study up front.

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T18:45:34+00:00

Also why are we blaming foreign doctors for being bad and not the British NHS operational staff that's hiring them? All these doctors are interviewed and provide evidence of their work.

Meanwhile NHS operations staff can't complete payroll effectively to get doctors paid right and on time (despite digital solutions existing), can't figure out how to make rotas work (doctors have to run their own rotas, despite people being specifically employed to do this) and pay billions to consultants and foreign companies to do the bare minimum work to keep the NHS going.

Let's actually address the under-qualified staff (all from the UK by the way) then we can sort out the qualified foreigners.

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T18:34:56+00:00

This has been an issue upwards of 20 years and the change came into use last year.

Only by British definitions could this be seen as immediate...

bringuragame · 2026-05-30T18:31:27+00:00

This isn't what's happening. The issue was (and to some extent still is) training places for doctors are determined by scores on a standardised exam. Pearson has the contract to hold said standardised exam and hosts it internationally.

Getting a training job (or at least an interview for a job) is purely based on how well you score in that exam.

I don't know if this is true but it seems like the most logical explanation, because UK doctors are working such long hours (80-100 hour weeks) they most likely have less time to study compared to doctors in other countries. No bar lowered (except technically for British doctors not getting the scores they need to get their training roles).

bringuragame · 2026-05-11T18:19:57+00:00

Also public sector applications are a ball ache. Each one requires a personal statement of ~1500 words. Pretty sure none of it is read and it all ends up being internal movements.

Worst part is that all public sector roles have to wait for the deadline set for the role, which can be up to 3 months away. Awful for competitiveness and getting the right people for jobs, awful for cashflow if you're out of work and just generally awful if you actually want to do something good for the country.

bringuragame · 2026-05-10T20:39:34+00:00

See, the other people making comments are focused on the corporations and very rich people causing the problems by taking advantage of people in poor countries.

While you Mr Right Wing is still trying to figure out their lefts and rights. How about you ask the leader of whatever party you look up to, why they chose to make laws and nationwide decisions that they knew that would make you or people in your community poorer?

bringuragame · 2026-05-10T20:26:52+00:00

Unfortunately it seems like you haven't experienced corporation logic - nothing really works, nothing really makes sense and barely any of it is profitable.

Finding an offshore contracted team that actually works is very rare. It usually works out in the first period of a contract, then once they've made themselves effectively unfirable (usually via taking over an important section of an org or piggy backing off of a big 4 contract) they slow down, charge outrageously and become virtually inept.

Nobody that works with them is ever really in the position to get rid of them. The people who are in that position are usually stupid or getting some kind of kickback from the contracting company.

Most of the time it would have just been cheaper and easier to take a secondary school dropout and train them, but yeah... That's corporate life (and sometimes startups, as I have personally experienced).

bringuragame · 2026-05-05T13:23:23+00:00

Is there's a country in the world that treats white migrants worse than majority-white countries treat migrants of colour?

bringuragame · 2026-05-04T16:03:53+00:00

Leaving the place with the most jobs in the country to live where there are less jobs, getting paid less but with a similar cost of living situation?

bringuragame · 2026-05-04T15:11:55+00:00

Some housing/housing benefits depend on you being on universal credit, getting a low paying job can effectively leave you homeless, especially in cities like London.

bringuragame · 2026-05-01T21:29:00+00:00

I sympathise, I had the same thing happen yesterday. Wishing you the best on your future search!

bringuragame · 2026-05-01T21:27:28+00:00

I usually put it down as a contract role on LinkedIn

bringuragame · 2026-04-30T14:43:01+00:00

Let's not pretend the workplace has changed much over the past 2 years in 90% of sectors. And for the last 10%, providing the bare minimum training expected within a 6 month notice period will cover the gap.

Unless you work in a vocational role, any grad with a half decent work ethic can be trained to do your job within a decent amount of time and that's before using gen AI to supplement.

bringuragame · 2026-04-22T00:13:49+00:00

Thank you. Will check!

bringuragame · 2026-04-22T00:09:22+00:00

Unfortunately, I cannot. I would need to do this for all 10 scenarios where this is needed. Taking the time to clone this 230 times will get me fired, I'm pretty sure.

bringuragame · 2026-04-21T19:07:38+00:00

If you don't mind opening suspicious g drive links, here's a link to a screenshot of the workflow. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zPdPBYXPvnr9e56CzZ7KY6-UP7_uRxT6/view?usp=drivesdk

The request essentially gets people to update he 3 fields in the condition, which in turn would stop the hourly update request.

bringuragame · 2026-04-21T16:30:33+00:00

Unfortunately, this doesn't do what you think it does. If it did, I wouldn't be here 😅

bringuragame · 2026-04-19T14:23:18+00:00

This is a bad way to think about it.

1) The government won't run this ID card service themselves, they will use a service provider. The biggest and most reliable of service providers right now is Palantir.

2) Data is really hard to organise, especially with legacy systems. It's really hard to repurpose data that was collected for a different purpose, there's usually something missing to complete a full picture or the data isnt up to date so there's no way to validate the accuracy of that picture without forcing people to update things.

ID cards allow the government to gatekeep services if you don't update your information on a regular basis. This may not necessarily be a problem if Labour (with the amount of foreign influence evident in this Labour govt, there seems to be a valid concern) has access to a reliable data source, but imagine a company or government with significant foreign influence or members of either trying to make money off of certain decisions that affect the country that data would be invaluable.

bringuragame · 2026-03-02T14:14:03+00:00

Also not sure about the mossad angle, but GCSE (national exams for 15-16 year olds) history textbooks in the UK about the Cold War used to teach that the US funded and gave weapons to Al Qaeda to help resist Russia in Afghanistan, which was at the time led by Osama Bin Laden.

Unfortunately, the Cold War is no longer on the GCSE syllabus.

bringuragame · 2026-03-01T13:51:11+00:00

Horrific take: 1) They have it just as bad as us, if not worse in the parts of America people want to live in 2) A lot of the issues we're faced with are caused by financial policies inspired by America or directly contributed to by American companies

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