Well, being unemployed I've gone through the motions of sorting things out, which includes registering with various recruitment agency's.

The latest was a company called First Recruitment. I went in, registered, did there Data Input test (Which by the way I slaughtered. Average person in the UK does 4000 keystrokes in 5 mins and I did 14,000 with 97% accuracy, but thats a different story )

Anyway so they get me a temp job and a perminant interview.

I went with one of my friends to get his new car in london yesterday but we got held up so I called up to say I couldn't get to the interview. I told the agency bloke that I was still on Coulsden and he said 'YOU'RE MEANT TO BE IN HAYWARDS HEATH' and I was like err...yes...but I can't make it.

That morning I had gone in thinking the temp started yesterday but infact it was today and the first thing they said when they saw me was 'You can't go dressed like that'. Now I always dress smart/casual so I was a little pissed at that comment. He told me that I needed to be wearing a suit, and maybe a jacket. Now when he said this I had a little chuckle considering I was going for a back office job where there was physical contact with customers so I thought it a little pointless.

He told me to go and buy one yesterday and I was like. Hello, i'm unemployed, thus I have no money, but he still told me to go and get one so I decided to go with my mate.

Anyway, whilst in coulsden I had a think about this whole job front and how stupid this suit business was, and I had a chat with my mate who not long before, had gone through the job hunting process. He said this suit business was a load of crap.

So, I get home at about 4:20 and sent the recruitment agency an email at 4:30 basically saying, I don't want any temporary jobs, and I don't want a job where a suit is required. I didn't think that a lot to ask but then I get a phone call from the woman who deals with the temporary side of things at this agency. She started going on and on, flapping her gums about how I gave her 10 mins to find a replacement for the temp work. I told her I sent the email at 4:30 and she said she only just checked so I told her that wasn't my problem.

So she then tells me that she doesn't think she can use me again and I was like, well thats ok as I don't want a temp job. She then says that it'll probably affect whether mark (The perminant dealing guy) will get me any interviews. He came on the line and was fine. I told him to drop the interview where a suit was needed as I despise wearing them, and i'm not going to buy a suit for a job I don't necesseraly have, or a temporary job as it would be a waste of money.

So he finds another job. The job sounds good but when I ask if it needs a suit he said no, but smart trousers, shirt and a tie. Now I consider that to be pretty much a suit, without the jacket.

Now that job was for a data inputting one where I would be sitting in some stingy back office, having no contact with the outside world so again, I felt a suit would be pointless.

Now all this has really pissed me off and i'm tempted just to go to this interview on friday in my smart/casual gear and if they don't like it then they can tell me. I'm thinking this recruitment agency just wants everyone in suits to make themselves look good.


Gah, excuse me rabbiting on but I had to get that out