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Quoted from pen penfras

That's not the point though. If you recommend somebody for a senior role and they turn out to be garbage, then it doesn't reflect well on your judgement of ability. Especially for somebody in an executive position

The sad vendetta against Debbie Cook continues. Funny how you lot weren't calling for your mate Fenty's head when he employed a bunch of inept clowns for the best part of twenty years (my favourite was the one who set up loads of sockpuppet twitter accounts pretending to be 'students' to anonymously criticise the new owners and defend Fenty). If a flawless recruitment record is the standard we judge senior Grimsby Town employees by then we best get Hurst sacked asap since the club's employed plenty of garbage in the past based entirely on his judgement 🤪🙃🫠.

Quoted from Chrisblor

lol ffs have you never worked somewhere where you've thought "how on earth did this clown get employed here?" - it happens nearly everywhere, yet in most places they end up sticking around performing badly instead of being ruthlessly let go after a few months like the club have done here

I’m not sure that’s right, these days organisations tend to deal with poor performance whether it’s related to attitude, behaviours or competency. There’s nothing ruthless about exiting an under performer.

In terms of recruitment I’ve recruited 100’s of people in my career and a fair few have been absolute donkeys regardless of coming through the process well.

I’ve never recruited any friends but I have recruited people I’ve worked with in the past who are hard workers and align in terms of values, mostly it’s worked but there are a couple of times when it’s ended badly.

She was maybe still in a probation period too so possible to bin off easily due to that.

Quoted from arryarryarry

Doh................yes I have worked in a situation where as a manager I was part of an interview panel that believed the bullshit from an interviewee who turned out to be crap but that is completely different to a senior member of the operations bringing in a mate probably without any interview process, and if you don't understand that then you clearly have never been in the position of employing anybody.

So YOU made a mistake but for some reason it’s worse when someone else does the exact same thing? Bizarre reasoning.

There is a statement in recruitment that everyone gets promoted to a level of incompetence and unfortunately until you get there you don’t know your level. Some managers survive by bullyin* tactics  and blaming others some hold their hands up and say hey this is not for me and move back to a level that they loved but you can’t blame anyone for trying

Quoted from ska face

So YOU made a mistake but for some reason it’s worse when someone else does the exact same thing? Bizarre reasoning.

Oh for felicitations sake, just how flipping dumb are you? hiring someone you don't know is always a risk which is completely different to bringing a mate into a senior position and probably well paid one at that.

You need to calm down a bit, I wouldn’t be calling other people dumb if I’d just admitted to giving someone a job they couldn’t do 🙃

You seem to be insinuating her appointment was some shady back-office stitch up by Cook rather than a formal recruitment process advertised on the website and all the social media channels?

Quoted from ska face

You need to calm down a bit, I wouldn’t be calling other people dumb if I’d just admitted to giving someone a job they couldn’t do 🙃

You seem to be insinuating her appointment was some shady back-office stitch up by Cook rather than a formal recruitment process advertised on the website and all the social media channels?

Everything I’ve seen of Jason Stockwood I’d be amazed if some form of recruitment process wasn’t applied.

Quoted from HertsGTFC

Everything I’ve seen of Jason Stockwood I’d be amazed if some form of recruitment process wasn’t applied.

Cook was headhunted, it wasn't an advertised position. You still would assume some form of process went in to headhunting her but it wasn't a position we were openly accepting applications for.

Quoted from jamesgtfc

Cook was headhunted, it wasn't an advertised position. You still would assume some form of process went in to headhunting her but it wasn't a position we were openly accepting applications for.

When you’re headhunted you still generally have to have an interview or 2 maybe 3 or more.