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I. Give. Up.

Tom Coates

13:48 / 04.03.02

No job with the BBC as a Communities Producer for me then.

Ariadne

13:53 / 04.03.02

oh no!!
Shit, Tom, they're fools.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

13:54 / 04.03.02

Aww.

Sauron

13:54 / 04.03.02

Don't sweat it Tom, it's notoriously ridiculous to get in there (but you knew that anyway), my friend had to apply millions of times- I think perserverance counts for quite a bit with them so keep plugging away.

I remember my mum telling my about my Dad's rejection letter which arrived on a piece of paper resembling toilet role ...

mr insensitive

13:57 / 04.03.02

Hard luck Tom. Don't give up. Who wants to work for the BB bloody C anyway?

(oh, you do - sorry!)

Sax

13:58 / 04.03.02

Hard lines, mate. Keep trying; they always put loads of new jobs up all the time, the BBC.

My girlfriend got two rejection letters for one job the last time she applied.

that

14:03 / 04.03.02

Sorry, Tom...

autopilot disengaged

14:03 / 04.03.02

don't let the bastards grind you down.

wallow (briefly) then come back mighty-morphed and STRONGER. Tee-Coatecon 2002 A.T.T.A.C.K.

sleazenation

14:07 / 04.03.02

Onwards to the next thing and don't let 'em grind you down

pacha perplexa

15:06 / 04.03.02

What Sleaze sez (though you should allow yourself to scream and kick and cry on the next two or three days, methinks).

Not Here Still

16:07 / 04.03.02

I'm sorry, I didn't wank for you. Even though you do look like that lovely Will Young on your 'Guardian photo horror' bit on plasticbag's front page...

Ah, fuck the Beeb. They've done it to me, too.

Although the worst was being accepted to freelance for Melody Maker. Why?

They went bust the next week

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: Not Me Again ]

Ganesh

16:44 / 04.03.02

<sings>

Don't give up. You still have uuuus...

Seriously, I'm sorry, Tom. At least you got beyond the first stage, though; at least you're not "psychologically unfit for employment".

Onward and upward, eh?

pointless and uncalled for

16:47 / 04.03.02

Wow, I'm impressed, about five percent of the people that I know are psychologically fit for employment, the rest (me included) just scam.

Edited to add congratulations to Tom for getting this far. I'm fairly certain the BBC would have had me beaten all over Sheppard's Bush with a shitty stick just for wasting their time.

[ 04-03-2002: Message edited by: H ]

Wyrd

17:00 / 04.03.02

It's hard, Tom, but don't give up. We're all rooting for you, and we know that you're supremely talented. (That doesn't pay the bills of course...) Keep looking, your dream job is still out there waiting for you. Let us know if you need any help at any time. Much love & hugs.

The Monkey

17:07 / 04.03.02

Sorry Tom. No accounting for other people's bad taste. I suggest a brief period of very public, drunken moping. Possibly in the nude. Then back to the great game....

netbanshee

17:09 / 04.03.02

Well...now that your foot's in the door...continue to bug the hell out of them and in the meantime, look somewhere else. Obviously you're qualified...and if you're an itch, they'll eventually have to scratch it.

The Planet of Sound

20:04 / 04.03.02

All, all, all employers are close-minded ignorant fools locked in rigid, inflexible, heirarchical and inane modes of thinking. The BBC doubly so. Everyone I know who works at the BBC knows everyone else who works at the BBC's parents (nae kidding). Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em all! And recruitment agencies, estate agents of the human soul, the fuckers...

(You're not the only person slightly pissed off with the job market at the moment, Mr. Coates. At least you have a champion website to work with. More advertising might help the old account, and I'm sure regular Barbeloids would be more than happy to click on links as a thank you gesture. Just a thought.)

Mourne Kransky

09:40 / 05.03.02

The BBC's loss, which they will realise when all that spermatozoic karma comes to its ultimate, vengeful rest in Greg Dyke's personal water cooler.

Stuff 'em, I am only watching Channel 4 from now on. But they bounced a friend of mine two years ago. Oh well, gonna put the cats in the washing machine and just watch them do synchronised swimming. Sure beats curling.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

09:40 / 05.03.02

It just seems lately that there are too many people going for too few jobs. I have friends who have been laid off and have massive skills that aren't even getting interviewed.

Anyone think this might be a job for the Mighty Mighty Mango?

—| x |—

09:40 / 05.03.02

Um...

<points up>

...what they said.

m3

We're The Great Old Ones Now

09:40 / 05.03.02

Don't give up.

Naked Flame

09:40 / 05.03.02

Down but not out I hope, Tom...

I predict that sooner or later they'll beg for you to come on board. Ok, I don't have anything to base that on (apart from knowing that you could handle the gig and then some) but hey.

Hoi! Gekster!

Come make manifest a groovy highfalutin job for our T.C! you know he's good for the cookies, baby!

Jack The Bodiless

09:40 / 05.03.02

<BARBELITH HUGS R US>

Take care, my friend. Remember : giving up is for the dead.

Eloi Tsabaoth

09:40 / 05.03.02

quote:Originally posted by The Planet of Sound:
Everyone I know who works at the BBC knows everyone else who works at the BBC's parents (nae kidding). Fuck 'em! Fuck 'em all!

Damn fuckin' straight, mineral water quaffing, expense account abusing, no second series commissioning bastards...

We're The Great Old Ones Now

10:23 / 05.03.02

The voice of experience...been a long time, Flesh...good to have you around.

higuita

11:15 / 05.03.02

Had two rejection letters meself this morning - why do they hang around until they can come when you're at a psychic weak spot? - but hang in there. It'll happen.

Persephone

12:09 / 05.03.02

Noooo, mine tend to come when I'm feeling pretty hot...

...and then, POP!

<tattered shreds plummet to ground>

DON'T GIVE UP, ANYBODY. WILL BAKE CAKES FOR ALL.

alas

12:20 / 05.03.02

thinking of you over here too, Tom...
alas.

Spatula Clarke

12:25 / 05.03.02

Bad luck, old bean.

When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And the sky is always darkest... be... fore... the...

Bill Posters

12:31 / 05.03.02

Sorry, mate. (I'll wank harder next time, I promise.)

bitchiekittie

12:38 / 05.03.02

the stubborn optimist in me wants to tell you that perhaps this will only be leaving you open for the next, better, opportunity.

the latent tire slasher in me desperately wants you to ask me to go on a spree with you

the rest of me can only sigh and say much luck to you

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

12:30 / 09.03.02

That sucks. Fuck 'em. (and much moral support from over here, too.)

Captain Zoom

14:10 / 09.03.02

Tom, I've been getting a lot of this myself and it's been pissing me off no end 'cause I really do want to give up some days, but persevere my friend. The light at the end of the tunnel may well be a freight train, but one hopes that, once you've dodged it, there won't be another one right after it.

Sorry. Cold comfort at best. Everyone here thinks you're one of the finest individuals around. Won't pay the bills, but may soothe the bruised ego.

Zoom.

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