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Grr . . . stupid HR people
shmokes:
Ugh . . . I applied for a summer internship with Caterpillar a couple weeks ago. Hadn't heard anything back from them until Thursday evening, I got home and checked my email just before 9:00 p.m. I had an email from someone at Cat asking for some information that they hadn't asked for when they advertised the internship. The last line was, "Please email me by 5pm today." Of course I went ahead and sent the info, four hours late. But who sends an email out of the blue like that with such a short deadline. They had my phone number . . . it's not like they couldn't have just called for the info. I'm afraid that someone was supposed to have done this work a week ago, so when his/her boss came out and said, "Hey . . . do you have those applications ready for me? I want to start calling on those first thing in the morning," so the employee had to scramble to have it all ready, and my app arbitrarily didn't make the cut, cos it didn't have all the info needed. :-[ I have other have applications out for other internships, but the Cat one is my first choice, so it's super disappointing to think that I may not even get a shot at an interview because I didn't happen to be sitting at a computer during the three or four-hour window the person gave me to respond. ---smurfy---.
patrickl:
If they need it by 5PM they won't be forwarding it to anyone anyway. Earliest time they would actually use the e-mail would be next morning anyway.
While I was studying I had a dispute with the study financing people. I was running my own busines and their systems/rules weren't really equipped to deal with students who had their own company. Anyway, it would generally take them half a year (!) to reply to my letters. They would invariable give me an 8 day deadline to respond to their replies. Sounds like a lot, but I had a lot of vacations back then. I would simply backdate my mail a few days though. In these days of e-mail that would have been harder :P
Singapura:
--- Quote ---While I was studying I had a dispute with the study financing people.
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You're Dutch right? ;D
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Singapura on April 12, 2008, 06:32:45 pm ---
--- Quote ---While I was studying I had a dispute with the study financing people.
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You're Dutch right? ;D
--- End quote ---
Yeah :P Studiefinanciering rulez.
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: patrickl on April 12, 2008, 07:09:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: Singapura on April 12, 2008, 06:32:45 pm ---
--- Quote ---While I was studying I had a dispute with the study financing people.
--- End quote ---
You're Dutch right? ;D
--- End quote ---
Yeah :P Studiefinanciering rulez.
--- End quote ---
Really?
Do you wear clogs?
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