Originally Posted by
airpolice
A few months ago, he told me he had applied and put me down as a ref.
About 4 weeks ago they called him and said he was in, subject to vetting.
Then they asked him to travel from Scotlandshire to London, at his own expense, stay three nights in London, at his own expense, and travel home after attending a two day training course.
He told them where to shove it.
Two weeks ago they asked him to attend a training course in Glasgow to be qualified as a night club bouncer.
He told them to shove it.
At the end of last week, G4S called me to check out his references and told me (confidentially) that he would be getting a letter this week offering him a job.
When this story broke yesterday, it was covered at length on LBC Radio in London, a news and phone-in station. Listener after listener phoned in with accounts exactly along these lines, of worthwhile applicants messed about and ignored, checks out of sequence, you name it. The radio journalist was astounded at such a series of stories about the screwed way the whole process had been managed.