if the company name is Cobra or is affiliated to it.. avoid them like the plague..
if they're looking for management trainee.. the same also applies..
also, event team/crew.. run, freakin run to the nearest exit..

oh ya, forgot.. also Forex Com. seeks personnel for expansion..

my story.. i've got a couple laa..
but sadly, i forgot the posts i applied for..
i have this 'ability' to block out things that piss me off..

STORY 1
Comp : Some Forex Comp in Megan Phileo Ave.

same like the others..
went there.. was interviewed.. bla bla bla..
the next day, got called.. u got the job.. so come tomorrow..
i came.. they showed me around and started the 'training'..
learnt a lil bit abt fibonacci.. bull n bear la.. stuff like that la..
the next day, the 'sermon' begins.. talked abt how we need 2 help the comp..
and how the staff that are already there are pulling their own resources..
and investing themselves.. they were like.. why don't u join us?
it's something like, the whole share is RM10k, so if one person come up with RM2k..
then another 4 come up with the same amount.. so share2..
so i said, no money lorr.. so how? they said, it's ok.. ur parents got rite?
i said, i'm supposed to support my parents now.. u ask me 2 ask them 4 money lorr?
they said, for 'starting' only..
i can only imagine what the end would be like bcos i went back that evening vowing never to return..

STORY 2
Comp : Regal (affiliated to Cobra) <- what else can u expect from snakes huh? how ironic..

i answered an ad in Jobstreet..
so i got an email, very profesionally done n all..
asking me to come interview at Megan Phileo Promenade or whatsthatplace laa..
so i went.. there were like 15 other ppl there, presumably waiting to be interviewed..
i filled up the forms and waited my turn.. and i was called for an interview with 4 other candidates..
one a 30 something abg.. the other 2 were pretty girls..
the interviewer's a very confident young guy.. early to mid 20s..
spoke abt the company's expanding.. mite even open branch in the Philippines..
who knows, one of you mite become the head there..
yadda yadda yadda he yacks on and on..
then interviewed us.. and at the end of that, asked us..
would u guys be free next week? the girls said, yes..
the abg n i said no.. so the interviewer asked when will u be free?
i asked why? is there a 2nd interview?
the interview went.. "ahah! that's what i was just going to talk abt.."
he said that to be shortlisted, all of us had to go for a 4 days observational test..
meaning, we have to go out to the 'field'.. sell stuff..
and after 4 days(3 days if u're THAT GOOD n lucky, woww, yippee!! )..
u'll be called for the 2nd interview..
i was like WTF? r u serious?
he was like, yeah..
so i fired back, what abt the 4 days? r we ur staff or what?
he started saying, and this i had no problem remembering..
"well, technically, no....." i was like WTF?????!!!!
so that means, for 4 to 3 days, u basically get free labour..
cos there's no guarantee u'll get the job rite?
and even if u do get the job, is it worth it?
from the look of it, i don't think so..
and i cabut with the interviewer in mid sentence..

This post has been edited by budakjahat: Jun 1 2006, 10:18 AM

b3rnard7.. UGPM..