I’m currently in the market for an online recruitment software system, and the two companies that came to my attention were PC Recruiter, and Taleo. As the volume of our recruitment might be large, we were going to use an off-the-shelf solution (and these are not cheap, open-source software, but rather, expensive professional software) that will offer full integration with existing websites and also with Microsoft Outlook. I contacted both of them via their website and submitted a request for demo runs.

A day or two later, my phone rang at 6 AM. I was woken up, got pissed off, shut my phone off, and went back to sleep. As it turns out, the guy who left me a voicemail was a guy named Scat Orlott (or something like that anyways) from PC Recruiters calling. Later that day, at a comfortable 9AM, came a call from Taleo, which is acceptable.

The idiot guy from PC Recruiter totally lacked the sense of time zones, and it really ticked me off that I was waken up so early.

A few days later, this guy from PC Recruiter called again. It was the same man alright, except this time he called in the afternoon, so I actually answered it. I asked him where he was located, and he answered that he’s from Cleveland, Ohio, which would be 3 hours ahead. I started chewing him up for waking me up the last time he called, and told him he should check time zones before calling. And then he simply hung up on me without even apologizing for his mistake. Here’s how the conversation went.

Me : Oh it’s you. Yeah, last time you called me, you rang my phone at 6AM and fucking woke me up. Where are you guys located?
Scat : Oh, I’m in Cleveland.
Me : Well, I’m in Vancouver and you’re 3 hours ahead.
Scat : I wasn’t aware of that.
Me : You should check your damned time zones before you call next time. Don’t ever wake me up again.
Scat : (Hangs up on me)

Needless to say, PC Recruiter has just lost a lead for a foreign recruitment company, and I am proceeding with the demo process with Taleo with a salesman named Josh.

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