Should have bought lotto tickets instead

Being fully aware that Lotto is for the mathematically challenged, I don't typically participate. But in light of the amount of money I basically threw in the toilet by enlisting the "services" of Global Career Managment, perhaps I might have been less a fool to spend all that money on Lotto tickets.

I was shown the big three-ring binder of "success stories" by VP Lou Spadoni (Seattle office), and assured that GCM would not only help me find the right position based on my skills (which seemed to me remarkably dissimilar from the skill sets of any of those represented in the binder), but that they would also "groom" me to negotiate the best conditions in my contract.

All that happened was that I was directed to spend hours and hours coping with the horribly inadequate search capabilities in their on-line database of "unadvertised" jobs of which only a handful were even close to what I was seeking.

More hours wasted mailing dozens of cookie-cutter-style resumes each week resulted in a significant number of returned envelopes marked as being undeliverable -- the database is sadly out of date.

There was never any of the so-called "grooming".

Eventually, I found a mediocre job on my own, through none of their "unadvertised" connections. Had to take something because GCM had bled me dry of all my reserves at a time when I had no employment.

We Won't Be Fooled Again!