[Gllug] job advert

Bernard Peek bap at shrdlu.com
Wed Oct 15 12:41:23 UTC 2008


On Tue, 2008-10-14 at 16:09 +0100, Alison Young wrote:

> On a similar topic, one of the strangest requirements I've seen in a job 
> ad was that any new hire would be expected to join in with the drinking 
> on Friday nights. Unfortunately I didn't keep a bookmark of it so I 
> can't check exact wording, but I was really quite surprised that made it 
> past HR.

I once hired someone who was apparently a recovering alcoholic. After
that debacle I always checked with the people I hired. It was a very
boozy company and a recovering alcoholic didn't stand a chance. I'm sure
that if he had said something at interview we could have worked
something out.



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