It's Monday

And Monday's are always good for the kick off the week staff meeting. Here in my little corner of the world, that means we get to hear the salespeople talk about what jobs they have for us to work, what jobs they think will close, and generally where things stand. Pretty typical stuff for a recruiting firm, although it's generally no new information, and we are bored to tears in the first 3 minutes.

The trouble with salespeople is that they are always trying to sell you something, They will polish that turd so finely you can see yourself in it, it's their job. However, salespeople often have a different sense of reality about what they are selling than a normal individual. This is especially true when salesperson has no real experience actually trying to find the person he or she needs to fill his or her particular job. Say Stony the salesguy calls company G. Company G says they have an immediate need for an Integration Engineer. Salesperson is freaking pumped now!

Little does he understand that Company G has been looking for this person for 14 months, and that is why the need is immediate. Why 14 months? Because their plant is about 93 miles from anywhere with a semblance of civilization, they are paying about 25K below market demand, and they are looking for someone with exactly 12.3 years of experience using software that came out 10 years ago.

However, salesperson Stony does not know that, and does not want to hear it. Stonmy insists that because the economy is down, and people are laid off, there must be hundreds of people out there that fit this bill. We are just not working hard enough to find these. Yeah, about that..