Drunk MD, threatened with a rock, called a liar, racism, sexism, questionable accounts
all sound like the perfect ingredients for a recruitment office but no. I had the pleasure of working for a small IT recruitment company in the SouthWest. Actually I imagine some of you know who they are, i wont say the name but its similar a popular car insurer,oh yes!, just change a letter and the order of the words. Anyway I digress, The MD would go off everyday about 11 and if he came back about 5ish he would be drunk. Phrases like "off the boat" were banded around about foreign candidates and even racist songs where sung. People would take 2,3 hr lunch breaks because they could and it wasn’t uncommon to come back into the office and find people watching porn on the pc’s or playing games. As fun as it sounds it was fucking shite. People were angry with the MD for the situation of the office the accounts team were so useless they couldn’t pay anyone, well actually that was down to the MD too but I cant say much more about that but im sure you can figure it out. Oh and I got offered out of the office by my team leader and he had a rock in his hand. Strangely he is a great guy now. The place changes people. Anyway I digress that builds a picture of why it was shit but that’s not why I quit. I quit because after 18 months of working my arse off and trying to make a go of it the MD comes in one day and takes me downstairs,

MD - Bobby why have you only made 3 permanent placements in the past 9 months?
BP - I have made a lot more than that where are you getting your figures?
MD - XXXXXXXXXX told me! He said you only made 3 placements im going to have to discipline you
BP – do you not want to ask me about it or see my figures?
MD – I trust xxxxxxxxxxxx completely he is my eyes and ears when im not here.
BP – oh so you must have seen a lot of porn and heard some lovely adapted nursery rhymes then?

That didn’t go down to well and then he opened his mouth and said

MD – how dare you, how dare you, don’t talk to me like that and the rant went on for a good two minutes while I sat there looking at his red stained teeth and the sweat on his balding head. I had enough and quit. Got two months pay out of it. Which was handy as I took 6 weeks off and played golf everyday, with my ipod on and a few doobies (still a cool word) in my bag.

Due to the accounts the company was bought out by the MD’s old boss and was soon found to be in a dire financial situation indeed. Rather than pump money in which was the plan, he fired everyone else and the new boss took all the contractors. I believe they are still trading with a staff of 3, old md, his wife, and some poor kid who isn’t being paid.

Apologies for length, I spent 18 months there, it made me a bit mad.
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