Technical recruiters who cannot speakie de English are annoying. They are also tragically ubiquitous. But that can be dealt with. Speak slowly and clearly, and pray for a good connection so you can hope to puzzle out what they are saying.

But a large subset of the non-English speaking technical recruiter community has absofuckinglutely no social savvy whatsoever, when they’re not flat out rude. This drives me bugfuck.

“Hi, Samir, I was calling to follow up on the position we discussed last week…”

“Yes.”

“So could you tell me what sort of timeframe we’re looking at?”

“I have not received any feedback from the hiring manager.”

“Do you have any idea when that might be?”

“Next Monday.”

“Thank you.”

It’s like pulling teeth, and that’s a mild example, with all the mispronounced words edited out.

Talking with someone who has no concept of how to use the phone as a communicatio device makes my hair hurt. What little