Posted on 02/07/2006 by SouthernProgrammer
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This happend at my last job. The company had an engineering group interview two candidates for a engineering position. One was absolutely brilliant and the other one, while a fairly nice guy, was not really qualified for the job. The engineering mgr told HR to make a very high offer to the brilliant guy as he wanted to hire him.
The wonderful HR rep got the names mixed up and made the OTHER guy the high offer and naturally he accepted it. This was not known until the day he showed up for work.
HR decided since an offer was made, they had to keep him. I felt sorry for the guy, he was really nice but his co-workers were really upset because he was less qualified but making a better salary but it wasn't his fault! I am not sure if he was ever told what happened or not. I learned about it from the secretary of the HR rep and she said no-one was supposed to discuss it with the poor guy.
POST A COMMENTcorporateSlave(02/07/2006)
OH man... and you KNOW that guy went home to his family and friends the day he got the offer and celebrated his "unbelievable luck". But the part about "the day he started" stumps me. I mean, didn't the manager have to sign paper work and order a name plate or create ID's or something that had the other guy's name on it?
SouthernProgrammer(02/07/2006)
You could be right on that point, but my understanding is once the offer was made...it could not be retracted. So perhaps they made the offer, then told the manager the guy accepted and that's when the fun and games began. I personally met the person and he was not the sharpest tool in the shed and until I heard the story I wondered why he was at such a level. Very nice guy though...
HaveADamnNiceDay(02/07/2006)
So did the HR person lose their job? That's kind of a biiiiig whoopsie. That's stuff people can get fired over....
cnubelevit(02/07/2006)
I completely understand. Same thing happened to me...just think, it would've been call the Cnubelevit Tower instead of Trump tower..go figure.
SouthernProgrammer(02/07/2006)
Nope, the HR person did NOT lose their job. The entire time I worked there, noone ever got fired and some of the incidents would have been worthy of a dime store romance/smut book.
labtech(02/08/2006)
I got lates put on my work record because the 60K$ a year secretary kept mixing up my employee ID with this idiot woman who just could NOT come to work on time. So it happens.
disillusioned(02/08/2006)
This type of thing was commonplace at the airplane factory.....only it was on purpose.
Walk the Planks(02/12/2006)
It's nice that the Gods of Fate gave the less qualified guy a shot at something better. There must have been something about his name, too, that made HR remember it.
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