Buggeration!
Got rejection letter today from the good job. 
However, Postie also bought TWO more interview confirmations. Thats 3 in the next few weeks. 
Job interviews are indeed like buses.
I also found out yesterday that my old company went bust. Another 30 people on the scrapheap.
Now that this company has gone I suppose I can air some dirty laundry about the bastards that ran it.
I started there in January 1977 and spent the next decades working in various capacities around the company before settling into IT/Customer services general admin in the office. The company was then in private hands but the founder retired and sold it to an american company and after another few years there was a management buyout. Then a few years ago the MD and his wife took over and became the sole owners.
Things went downhill from there.
In 2007-08 the turnover was 2.8 million. I now know that the two owners took 50k a year salary (last year) out and then put another 100k in their own pension fund. The company has folded owing the bank alone 300k never mind the suppliers.
Here are some nice facts:
The MD's wife : he actually married her twice. The first time they got divorced and she emigrated to America (one imagines to get as far away from him as possible). Years later she came back and married him again, this time she took a job as a home carer / visitor for helpless people. God help those she visited. Anyway, a receptionist job became available and she was promptly installed in the position. Only months later she was appointed the 'Sales Director' with NO experience. Most of us beleive that in the last couple of years she was in early stage Alzheimer's.
The 'Metro' saga : They are also quite stupid. A member of staff would pick up a load of copies of the 'Metro' on the way to work and leave them on peoples desk (inclusing the MD's) one day a letter arrives from the 'Metro' (about advertising) the retarded MD reads a couple of lines of the letter and
asssumes its a bill. he then goes on the rampage and bans the 'Metro' from the company and gives the member of staff a bollocking in public at which point it is pointed out to him that the 'Metro' is a free paper and he is in fact, a twat.
Redundancies : 9 months or so ago the first wave of redundancies is announced and the dirty work done. The day before, the proprietor disappear on a company paid 2 week trip to CHINA! 3 Month later the second wave (mine) is announced and the day before they go on a 2 week holiday.
I could go on (and I probably will.) but I shall leave it for now as the thought of those two winds me up.
I would still rather not name the company in question on open forum but the website is still up (as of 10 minutes ago) so if anyone's interested PM me.
