I see this and think, so, you interviewed someone for a role with a client, and then decided to post details about it to your personal brand page? Yeah, that’s a great way to build trust in your work. Real or not.
Yeah, that candidate was actually me. Might seem like a good offer, but I wanted 100% remote work because that’s what I had in my previous job. Plus the role would have involved beating puppies to death and I just wasn’t comfortable doing that.
Besides it never happening - did anyone else look up the website for Staffing Fish?
It's the cheesiest most out of the box WIX template type of site. It reads like it was written by an intern who also apparently stole stock photos from the web. Don't even get me started on their inability to use consistent and business appropriate text size/paragraph formatting.
Lastly they are claiming to operate in multiple states but have placed less than 100 candidates since or in (not clear) 2023 with about half of them being temp or contract workers according to numbers on home page. Would anyone in their right mind advertise that?!
I think Jasen should spend less time trying to be a creative writer on linkedin and maybe spend a little more time attending to his own website and business.
That's a great way to never get past the page. Yes, let's be cute instead of using a quick, best practices captcha.
Some of the many choices:
Sith Lord Darth Vader?
Lord Darth Vader?
Darth Vader?
Darth?
Vader?
Anakin Skywalker?
Anakin?
Uncle Owen Lars?
Owen Lars?
Owen?
I saw that! They are "Recruiting Top Talent" by using that.
Also per the recruiting top talent, the moron has a registered symbol next to it when it is by itself in the paragraph. As someone in the thread noted they did register the phrase as a *part of their logo/business name* but it has to appear next to "Staffing Fish" for him to use the register mark.
He apparently is so clueless that he thinks he trademarked one of the most commonly used phrases in job placement industry.
I had a colleague when I was in corporate learning and development. She googled for a chef image, rather than selecting from our purchased stock photos or asking if our graphics folks had one. She used Gordon Ramsey, because she apparently lives under a rock and didn't realize he was a celebrity. No, you can't just use any old picture in corporate communications, dumbass.
"Hey everyone if you want to work from home, you are a moron! I will prove this by pretending to have a conversation with a moron, who wants to work from home!" \*pats self on back\*
The two blocks away part really cracked me up. I mean if you are going to fake a conversation you might as well add as many unrealistic details that you can imagine.
Jasen, Jasen, Jasen, smh. THAT was the best fake story you could come up with? That fake story wasn’t even up to recruiter standards and that’s setting the bar really really low already.
Maybe this isn’t the flex the writer thinks it is. I mean if the OP thought this was the best candidate but can’t fill the role because of “work in office”, and if most qualified candidates feel this way, he might want to rethink his position of “in office > top talent”.
Also some basic reading of the Harvard Business Review or Fortune or Forbes would show that research is now showing that RTO mandates are driving out top talent, tenured executives, and other hard-to-replace roles.
So if this guy is only recruiting for in-office rules, he definitionally isn't recruiting top talent. Top talent bounces over RTO mandates.
Can you imagine working with these lunatics? Every word that comes out of their mouths has to be a complete lie.
Anyway, shitting on wfh is ableist af and fuck anyone who posts drivel like this.
This conversation never happened. This asshole is against working from home & wanted to convey this.
I work 100% from home & it’s the happiest I’ve ever been in a job.
Just about everyone with an office job proved their jobs could be done fully remote for years when Covid hit. And be more productive at it! But no, let’s go back to the office, so you can get your real estate money’s worth and give your micro managers reason to exist… couldn’t possibly roll my eyes any harder.
Would also be nice if we had worker protections that penalized companies for outsourcing labor and not paying living wages… but corporations are almighty, at least in the US.
Is Jasen trying to claim that “Recruiting Top Talent” is a registered trademark?
Edit:
Looks like it is in the US, but the actual trademark is a stylized fish logo with the words “STAFFING FISH RECRUITING TOP TALENT” below it.
https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90892150&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch
100% fabricated lol. No candidate would ever show their cards to reveal financial desperation. I can’t tell if these LinkedIn posters think we are really this stupid or if it’s almost satire.
Dear recruiters. Your job is to place candidates in roles, not to prop up the billionaire class by forcing people back into highly leveraged commercial properties
Hmmmm…. Sounds like someone with mobility issues. You know the #1 group that grew in employment during the pandemic? The disabled.
I absolutely could have been the other party in this imaginary conversation.
I can’t physically handle the mobility requirements of working in office; without my heart going nuts; but I am a more than capable consultant.
While I am not a long-hauler, I do know after Covid - there’s alot more people like me.
Absolutely embellished for social media but I've also seen some really poor negotiators. There was even a Reddit post where some guy had haggled aggressively, gotten what he wanted, and then gone back and asked for *more* — bombing the deal even though he'd been unemployed for months!
The actual conversation sounds lunatic but we recently offered a $95k job to someone who lives 2 miles away and they turned it down because it was hybrid. Madness.
They could have worked it out with their manager. There are already multiple WFH employees in that team including the manager. They just don't put it on the contract.
And we all know how trustworthy companies are without contracts.
Don't get me wrong, I believe you. I'm sure they could have worked it out with their manager, but you can't blame the prospect for not just taking your word for it. Plus, a lot happens beyond managerial control.
95K isn't much depending on where you're located, and maybe not worth having to be in an office. I know that after 6 years being almost or fully remote that I'll never again take a job that requires me in person.
Yes, I'll disclose that I'm running out of money to a potential employer...said nobody ever.
And the recruiter just immediately knows off the top of his head the home address of every candidate and how long it takes them to get to the job.
It’s pretty common to know the address of people if they register with a recruitment agency.
That's a fun little strawman that Jasen (Jasen?! That . . . no, I refuse to . . . that's entirely . . . . urgh) cooked up there.
Yep, when I buy a car, I always tell the dealer how much I have in my bank account and how desperately I need a vehicle now
r/thathappened
If you're going to post something like this PLEASE post the entire conversation. He left out the part where everybody started clapping. Amateur.
And that candidate... Albert Einstein.
And the hiring manager? A dog.
Niels Bohr's dog, best friends with Schrödinger's cat
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah but it was the dog from Silent Hill II.
He was just trying to be humble
Everytime they say "a real conversation that happened" you know it's made up.
I see this and think, so, you interviewed someone for a role with a client, and then decided to post details about it to your personal brand page? Yeah, that’s a great way to build trust in your work. Real or not.
Yeah. Anytime I see that I usually say out loud: Sure, Jan.
I'll take "shit that never happened" for $1000
1100 and it is yours
Yeah, that candidate was actually me. Might seem like a good offer, but I wanted 100% remote work because that’s what I had in my previous job. Plus the role would have involved beating puppies to death and I just wasn’t comfortable doing that.
Or at least if you're going to beat puppies to death you're more comfortable doing it remotely.
Let me know how it works out.
This is the most unhappenedst dialog ever.
Unhappenedest is a fucking great word, I'm stealing it
I can’t imagine the pain he had to go through to get autocorrect to stop trying to fix it😂😂
🤣🤣 Indeed. But I am used to this: I also write in a language without autocorrection data, so I constantly have to train my phone on it.
Thanks! Go ahead! No copyrights claimed 😃
”reCRuiTinG tOP taLEnT”.
Besides it never happening - did anyone else look up the website for Staffing Fish? It's the cheesiest most out of the box WIX template type of site. It reads like it was written by an intern who also apparently stole stock photos from the web. Don't even get me started on their inability to use consistent and business appropriate text size/paragraph formatting. Lastly they are claiming to operate in multiple states but have placed less than 100 candidates since or in (not clear) 2023 with about half of them being temp or contract workers according to numbers on home page. Would anyone in their right mind advertise that?! I think Jasen should spend less time trying to be a creative writer on linkedin and maybe spend a little more time attending to his own website and business.
Their 'Contact Us' has a required field in the form: > Who is Luke Skywalker's father? https://staffingfish.com/contact/
That's a great way to never get past the page. Yes, let's be cute instead of using a quick, best practices captcha. Some of the many choices: Sith Lord Darth Vader? Lord Darth Vader? Darth Vader? Darth? Vader? Anakin Skywalker? Anakin? Uncle Owen Lars? Owen Lars? Owen?
I saw that! They are "Recruiting Top Talent" by using that. Also per the recruiting top talent, the moron has a registered symbol next to it when it is by itself in the paragraph. As someone in the thread noted they did register the phrase as a *part of their logo/business name* but it has to appear next to "Staffing Fish" for him to use the register mark. He apparently is so clueless that he thinks he trademarked one of the most commonly used phrases in job placement industry.
What is wrong with stealing stock photos from the web? Asking for a friend.
I had a colleague when I was in corporate learning and development. She googled for a chef image, rather than selecting from our purchased stock photos or asking if our graphics folks had one. She used Gordon Ramsey, because she apparently lives under a rock and didn't realize he was a celebrity. No, you can't just use any old picture in corporate communications, dumbass.
Very Insightful! Thank you
The entire website looks like those click bait ads that come up when I’m illegally streaming movies on 123movies.com
The big book of things that happened
Of all the things that never happened, this never happened most of all of those things that never happened.
And that candidate was Steve Jobs /s
Really? A /s tag? Really?
This is not only the internet, but Reddit. The /s was (sadly) necessary.
Really? A /s tag? Really?
But why male models?
lol
"Hey everyone if you want to work from home, you are a moron! I will prove this by pretending to have a conversation with a moron, who wants to work from home!" \*pats self on back\*
YES!
What Jason spells their name with an "e"? 
Fake. FISH® don't speak. 🐟
I‘m sure the candidate didn’t say he was running out of money fast 😂 What a moron
Yeah, a real conversation with an imaginary candidate.
None of this happened because no company would let their HR discuss those things, even if a candidate brought them up.
Lol a job two blocks from his apartment yeah right did this take place in a medieval village
The two blocks away part really cracked me up. I mean if you are going to fake a conversation you might as well add as many unrealistic details that you can imagine.
Recruiters are really trying to push this whole "remote work is going away thing".
If I get a remote job, I'd immediately have my doctor write a letter about my anxiety and demand a wfh accommodation.
What the hell does LinkedIn think of someone that this is the post that is "SUGGESTED" to them?
Chatgpt can write a better story than this
Why would I tell my employer I am running of rent?
I’ll take “Conversations that Never Happened” for $400 Alex
Jasen, Jasen, Jasen, smh. THAT was the best fake story you could come up with? That fake story wasn’t even up to recruiter standards and that’s setting the bar really really low already.
Maybe this isn’t the flex the writer thinks it is. I mean if the OP thought this was the best candidate but can’t fill the role because of “work in office”, and if most qualified candidates feel this way, he might want to rethink his position of “in office > top talent”.
This is true, I’m the two blocks between the office and where the candidate lives
Jasen is talking out of his arse.
Of all the things that never happened.
Also some basic reading of the Harvard Business Review or Fortune or Forbes would show that research is now showing that RTO mandates are driving out top talent, tenured executives, and other hard-to-replace roles. So if this guy is only recruiting for in-office rules, he definitionally isn't recruiting top talent. Top talent bounces over RTO mandates.
 This never happened
Ok, so staffing fish recruiters are fishy...kk, noted.
File this under Things That Didn't Really Happen.
r/thathappened
Can you imagine working with these lunatics? Every word that comes out of their mouths has to be a complete lie. Anyway, shitting on wfh is ableist af and fuck anyone who posts drivel like this.
I don't understand how anyone could type that out and think it's convincing as a genuine conversation.
This conversation never happened. This asshole is against working from home & wanted to convey this. I work 100% from home & it’s the happiest I’ve ever been in a job.
Just about everyone with an office job proved their jobs could be done fully remote for years when Covid hit. And be more productive at it! But no, let’s go back to the office, so you can get your real estate money’s worth and give your micro managers reason to exist… couldn’t possibly roll my eyes any harder. Would also be nice if we had worker protections that penalized companies for outsourcing labor and not paying living wages… but corporations are almighty, at least in the US.
now lets assume that this convo is true. I would still say very based candidate. He knows his value. good for him.
I’ll take shit that never happened for 300 Alex.
Alex I’ll take “Conversations that never happened” for $500, please.
Fake
Recruiters are absolutely the weirdest people in the job market
These recruiters who keep posting things like this are not very good at their jobs.
The Landlord was also in the interview and he was shaking his head the whole time
And then everyone clapped
Jasen can't even spell his own name correctly.
The candidates name? Albert Einstein.
Is Jasen trying to claim that “Recruiting Top Talent” is a registered trademark? Edit: Looks like it is in the US, but the actual trademark is a stylized fish logo with the words “STAFFING FISH RECRUITING TOP TALENT” below it. https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=90892150&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch
As soon as I saw ‘founder’ I guessed something would be fucky
100% fabricated lol. No candidate would ever show their cards to reveal financial desperation. I can’t tell if these LinkedIn posters think we are really this stupid or if it’s almost satire.
Dear recruiters. Your job is to place candidates in roles, not to prop up the billionaire class by forcing people back into highly leveraged commercial properties
yeah.. and if those roles aren’t remote tough shit. this post is fake but there are definitely whiny people like that.
Several offers and turn them down? Well Mr/Ms/They, add this one to your list too! 🤣
And that job candidate's name? Albert Einstein.
Has anyone named Jasen ever not been a total poop knife?
grossly exaggerated or completely fabricated
"Let me know how it works out." As if you really cared about that. Oh wait but this never happened in the first place.
That uh.... that never happened, did it?
Neverhappened.com
I was there. I am Jasen B.
“Jasen”…
I think the only conversation that happened was between his ego and his arrogance.
Hmmmm…. Sounds like someone with mobility issues. You know the #1 group that grew in employment during the pandemic? The disabled. I absolutely could have been the other party in this imaginary conversation. I can’t physically handle the mobility requirements of working in office; without my heart going nuts; but I am a more than capable consultant. While I am not a long-hauler, I do know after Covid - there’s alot more people like me.
With a candidate for Primary School? Hahahaha that looks like a conversation with a five year old.
This is real. I was the remote
Among all things that didn't happen...this one didn't happen the most :-P
I'll take shit that never happened for $100
I call BS
Absolutely embellished for social media but I've also seen some really poor negotiators. There was even a Reddit post where some guy had haggled aggressively, gotten what he wanted, and then gone back and asked for *more* — bombing the deal even though he'd been unemployed for months!
Don't quit when you're winning
Y’all never done interviews before and it shows.
The actual conversation sounds lunatic but we recently offered a $95k job to someone who lives 2 miles away and they turned it down because it was hybrid. Madness.
It's not madness. It's information on how powerfully remote work attracts talent. I hope you're impressing this upon your clients.
They could have worked it out with their manager. There are already multiple WFH employees in that team including the manager. They just don't put it on the contract.
And we all know how trustworthy companies are without contracts. Don't get me wrong, I believe you. I'm sure they could have worked it out with their manager, but you can't blame the prospect for not just taking your word for it. Plus, a lot happens beyond managerial control.
95K isn't much depending on where you're located, and maybe not worth having to be in an office. I know that after 6 years being almost or fully remote that I'll never again take a job that requires me in person.
2.Blocks is not too far away plus 10k more. I would cycle there