100% pure rant time.
Dave cuts lose on recruitment consultants, local component suppliers, and companies that make you register to get datasheets.

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27 thoughts on “Eevblog #47 – recruitment consultants suck, and engineering evil”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars jburdman7 says:

    Keep the names of their firms. If you are ever injured, you can be a head hunter.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars random stuff says:

    I think the audio is out of sync.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Bert Blankenstein says:

    don't like to complain, but my experience was that the audio was about 1.5s off from the video. So I just enjoyed the video without watching you lovely face. 🙂

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Planet of the Idiots says:

    send them a BILL !!! First !!!

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Mike Rotch says:

    Next time, tell them your consulting fee up front, offer to meet with them, and make sure they hand you the cash before you give them your advice. If somebody actually does this, make sure to blog about it.

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Alexander Nassian says:

    Couldn't say it better myself. Those recruitment morons also piss off us software engineers all the day -.-

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fleuroman says:

    start invoicing these recruitment guys for the phone call time, and you should do the meet ups with reps, and tell them how you rarely use the supplier they are visiting with 😉 tell the reps how you can never get their products from local suppliers 😉 put them into video blogs , "hi, I hope you dont mind me recording this"… 😉 you know you want to…

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Harry Haefner says:

    Remember, DR Murphy rules!

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Matt Young says:

    It's funny this video popped up in my "You should watch this again" list today. I got a phone call or email EVERY DAY this week from a different recruiter. Monday it was a contract mechanical engineer position miles away. Tuesday was a PCB designer position 2000 miles away, Wednesday was an EE job ~400 miles away, and Thursday was an Exchange administration position 60 miles away. Do these people even READ the resumes they find?

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars ilan magen says:

    One of the best tic off

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars william brown says:

    Thank you for the laugh.
    It's all true and that's why it is funny.

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Martin Kuliza says:

    so… Dave, I'm listening to you start the vid, and i hear the word, ADVISE,  and i piss myself laughing. (I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOUR GOING TO SAY)
    i hear you mate,
    i get the same bullshit, computer engineers and techies, and satellite and TV installers, especially the Satellite and TV guys,
    (while on a jobsite, mind you) asking me how to tune a fucking antenna or a satellite dish )
    exactly right mate,
    they are SUPPOSED TO BE Experts, but they don't know shit
    and when you try to tell them politely , why don't they know how to do it
    they get the shits at you for not helping…..  FOR FREE
    F#$@Ing Idiots,  absolute Morons
    i don't think they even earn the right to call themselves Technicians , at the very least.
    I Have so many stories it's not funny, we should sit down for a coffee one day and exchange bullshit that we've come across. LOL, Just for a laugh
    i fully get you on this point mate, your not alone.   BE COOL

  13. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TR2 says:

    You know what grinds my gears? Cheap toilet paper. Some one-hung-low brand crap made in China that leaves my butt bleeding every time I wipe!!

  14. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars vd79 says:

    turned off after like 90seconds. you're useless and arrogant

  15. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ryan Baker says:

    So you're saying people shouldn't expect you to give your advise away for free? But then why bother taking the time to write a blog and post videos on here in the first place

  16. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Doctor Why says:

    Do you work for free?

  17. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ryan Baker says:

    If you've made a blog trying to inform people about engineering why would you get so wound up that someone's interested in taking your advice?

  18. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris Sligh says:

    I'm not going to use your damn parts cause you're so damn annoying." -Dave Jones

  19. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris Sligh says:

    I design and engineer refrigeration and this still his home. Thanks Dave!

  20. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars KB1UIF says:

    I love this video Dave. It really cracks me up. Lol 😉

  21. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Ed Draper says:

    You are a mad man. And I delight in it.

  22. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Νικόλας Σπανοβαγκελωδημήτρης says:

    you know what grinds my gears ? ……….

  23. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Chris Sutton says:

    uhhhhhh! The cold calling! Thats the worst! It's one thing to be called when you logged an issue. THat's fine. But to be pestered by a sales jobs worth? Oh that is loathsome. I unplugged my landline phone cos every-time I plug it in I get cold called within the hour.

  24. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars fender7802 says:

    Dave, you and your videos are great. I am thoroughly enjoying them and learning a heck of a lot from you.

  25. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars rwdplz1 says:

    Couldn't agree more. About the only time recruiters ever call is to ask if I know anybody ELSE looking for a job. The WORST ones are where they have a job in mind, spend 15 minutes doing the pre-interview, get you all hyped up, and then, NOTHING! Call and call, and they can't bother to answer the phone, or call you back. USELESS!

  26. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars The Water Tower says:

    I get calls like that every week! CRAZY!

  27. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Jesús Solís says:

    I've always wondered what you do between every video cut-off after losing your guts off and then magically appear all calmed down, I've even watched closely every cut-off to see if any of the stuff in the background is slightly misaligned, perhaps because of an anger attack, an inevitable wreck of all your lab, and a subsequent calm down and "nothing happened here" clean up xD

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