WANTED: Blind, Arrogant, Self-serving, Bell-end.

Just how crap do you have to be in order to become a recruitment consultant? 

When I was working in architecture (if that wasn't bad enough) I would get emails about technologist's jobs in Bristol, they usually fitted the bill, so I'd reply with my cv. I would then got a call from some smarmy over-gelled acne-ridden tosspot, pretending that by just having read my name on a bit of paper give him the right to speak to me as though he has known me since primary school. That was always the first thing that got up my nose, well the second really, after the obvious fact that I have to share the same planet as such pieces of animated smegma. 

Anyway he starts his load of guff about the job and then say something along the lines of 'The client uses Micro-station' (this is a drawing package that barely anyone uses these days, and not many used it when it was new!). 

My reply was 'Micro-station, there was noting about micro-station in the advert and I wouldn't have bothered responding if it had said that from the outset.'

Stating this fact had about as much effect as trying to disable a Challenger tank by throwing a space-hopper at it. He waffled on, adding that he's been having difficulty finding anyone who uses micro-station - well if you put it in the advert you might not have to go through this nonsense every-time? Also it might help if the said practice joined the rest of the world by using something that is more or less standard in the industry, like Revit or Autocad - both of which I can use.

Do these recruitment out-fits recruit exclusively from either people who are too dim to work in Comet or just can't make the grade as an estate agent? 

Now even I have been in a proper job (in other words not working in architecture) for nearly eighteen months and having told every single one of these cretins that I have left the industry I still get calls and emails off the twats telling me about jobs I do not want to do.

If I had my way I would start hunting them down with dogs - or just gunning them down in the street.