[Magdalen] He blew the job interview

[Jay Weigel]

Karma WILL bite you......and pigeons do come home to roost.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Jim Guthrie <jguthrie at pipeline.com> wrote:

> Probably some sermon fodder in this story:
>
> Why you should never swear at strangers on the train
> The Telegraph (London), By Camilla Turner, 20 Feb 2015
>
>  A commuter who launched a foul-mouthed tirade at a fellow passenger
>> he bumped into on a crowded train faced him again just hours later –
>> at a job interview.
>>
>> The man told his future interviewer to “go f*** yourself” as they
>> both got off a train at Monument station during rush hour on Monday
>> morning.
>>
>> Later that day, they were reunited but in a much more formal setting,
>> with HR executive Matt Buckland interviewing the angry commuter he
>> had met on the District line that morning.
>>
>> "At Monument station, I stood to one side to let someone else off the
>> train first and I think he thought I was just standing in his way,”
>> Mr. Buckland, head of recruitment for investment firm Forward
>> Partners, told BuzzFeed.
>>
>> "He pushed and I turned, I explained I was getting off too but he
>> pushed past and then looked back and suggested I might like to f***
>> myself."
>>
>> During the interview, Mr Buckland said that the job seeker did not
>> recognise him, but a few questions about how his journey to work had
>> been that morning jolted his memory.
>>
>> “I asked him how he got to the interview, how was his morning
>> commute," he said. "We were on the train in the morning but the
>> interview was at 5.30pm that evening.”
>>
>> Mr Buckland explained that the man, who had applied for a web
>> development role at his company, was not offered the job, adding that
>> this was nothing to do with the incident that morning...
>>
>
> Full story:
> <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/
> 11424226/Why-you-should-never-swear-at-strangers-on-the-train.html>
>
> Cheers,
> Jim Guthrie
>
> "The enemy isn’t liberalism;
> the enemy isn’t conservatism.
> The enemy, is baloney." - Lars Erik Nelson
>