Jamie Calder from Ottawa, Ontario
Jamie Calder from Ottawa, Ontario
jamie@jamiecalder.com
http://www.jamiecalder.com
Jamie applied to our website coder position.
He really wanted the job & I was surprised he actually read over everything & answered all our questions.
I interviewed him & I realized he also knew PHP programming, so I started asking him questions about that too.
I asked him if he was potentially interested in that position too, as they would both be part time positions.
He said yes, & I said ok, we will need a sample script from you.
After the interview, I proceeded to screen his references. That is when things went downhill.
I wrote an e-mail to him stating I still hadn’t heard from his references.
A whole day went by & he didn’t log onto Yahoo (one very specific way we communicate with team members), I received no response to my e-mail, & he didn’t answer his phone & I called several times.
Finally at the end of the day I e-mailed again asking what in the world was going on.
He wrote back saying he was waiting on me.
I explained to him that he has to communicate with me, he can’t just not respond to e-mails.
I started to get concerned that his communication skills weren’t up to our standards.
The next day he said I should hear back from his references. I did & decided to hire him, so I let him know that he had to send us a few signed sheets including our NDA. He said he would send them the next day.
I expected to get them first thing in the morning. I didn’t.
I didn’t hear from him, so I called him. He seemed kind of out of it, but said he’d send me the documents in a couple of hours as soon as he got his scanner or fax machine up & running.
He apologized in his e-mail & said he hadn’t started studying CMS Made Simple, because he wasn’t sure he had the job. Fine, I understood.
Once I got the documents from him, I expected him to start right away, but once again, he seemed out of it. I asked him when I was going to get the sample script since he had said I would get it by Thursday & it was now Thursday.
He sort of hymed & hawed & I said it doesn’t sound like you are ready to start.
He asked me if he could start on Monday & I said fine, but I was already having reservations.
For someone who told me he really wanted the job & was interested, he sure didn’t care about starting.
Sure enough 2 days later he e-mails me with some story about getting a job at the government.
While he apologized, I wasn’t happy at all.
Jamie Calder had just wasted about 3-4 hours of my time & led me on. At no time did he tell me he was out there looking for offline work. He clearly stated he wanted to be an independent contractor working online.
He wasted my time & energy.
I decided to e-mail him a few days later to see if he wanted part time work. That is when I was 100% certain he had been lying to me, he never even responded to my e-mail.
Another one of those flaky independent contractors who lead companies on wasting their time & lying.