GMG. Ants. Literally in my pants.
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GMG. A well known Outdoors retailer who likes to âGoâ and their annoying clickbait adverts where the product being advertised at heavily discounted prices isnât even listed in their web store. Or their local store. And theyâve never even heard of the product!
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Gmg⌠James Ward Prowse not being selected for the Euros
But Luke Shaw has been?!
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I have an interview this afternoon and Iâve still not been sent the interview link. The candidate experience has been really quite poor so far, to the point itâs making me consider if Iâd actually want to work there!
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Did it arrive?
Not very professional to leave it so late - if nothing else, Covid protocols should have honed e-interviews via Teams, etc, to a very high standard.
It did about 3hrs before the interview although I did chase it. Following the interview my view of not being particularly impressed with the process continues and it is an awful lot of responsibility with not enough people in the team to do it justice in my opinion so Iâm not sure if Iâd actually want it.
Find out in 2 weeks by email either way. They might have 2nd stage interview to ensure the person who gets it âreally knows what they are getting themselves intoâ.
GMG - sub par recruitment processes
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Those would all be red flags for me.
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Iâm seeing the exact opposite which is exciting meâŚwilling to wait 4 weeks to interview me as we just couldnât get diaries to work⌠Explained my current circumstances around not being able to get into an office until October which they were completley fine with. These type of things have got me excited about the company, from what you described Iâd probably be withdrawing my application.
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Me too! I donât think I would be offered the role but I would have to think long and hard if I would want it, leaning strongly towards the no at the moment. It was a good experience as the role would be a slight change in focus for me, just a shame its not been positive.
Thatâs great. Fingers crossed it goes well!
There is a balance between waiting to interview someone as having to wait too long can be seen as unfair to any candidates who interviewed early who are having to wait for their results (if there are only limited roles). However, it also shows that the company seems to be realistic and reasonable and arenât in a rush to get just anyone in the role as soon as they can.
Keep us posted.
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Starting a new diet and fitness regime. Trousers arrived from the tailor after fitting a month ago and theyâre a little tight. Good job I have over a month before I need to wear them 
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Dog owners who have no control of their dogs on a beach, and then knowingly leave piles of crap all over.
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Anywhere.
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My dog has this habbit of capping in the middle of a Bush that I have zero access too without getting shredded⌠Heâs the goodest of boys
GMG. The apparent national shortage of building materials brought about by a surge in demand, DIYers building sheds and extensions and âsupply chain issuesâ.
But not Brexit. Oh, no. Nothing to do with Brexit.
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Isnât it a global issue though? I know that the US has serious shortages at the moment and prices have gone through the roof.
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It is a global issue at the moment. Containers were stuck in ports or at sea due to container terminals being full all over the world due to the pandemic shut down.
Brexit was a blip for us for around 2 weeks until we got the hang of the new procedures and paperwork, the shipping firms had everything ready to go in that sense. There is still the occasional hiccup but no more than there was before.
We ship out roughly 5-6 containers a week to the EU and probably import 40-50 a week, earlier this year there wasnât a single empty container in the UK at one point and we couldnât get the imports either.
Prices went up from hundreds per container into the thousands overnight. This wasnât the shipping companies trying to make money, they were trying to stop people ordering by giving out obscene prices.
My customer ended up chartering flights as it was cheaper and guaranteed delivery for a while rather than shipping the bits over until it calmed down a bit.
B&Q are starting to struggle at the moment⌠The products come from the far East (British companies produce them over there) a ton of garden furniture is stuck in ever green and the countryâs supply of conduit aswell. The good thing is we have secured more product ahead of Home base so are in a much better position than them.
Also raw materials are super scarce at the min so production canât meet demand
From people I work with who know about lumber apparently production across Europe almost came to a halt last year with very few producers continuing operations.
Means the producers who did continue are able to charge whatever they want for the lumber they have.
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I knew about the container issues - theyâve been well known about.
This is some specific stuff I need - it used to go from Finland to Germany, then the UK. Weâve used them countless times over the last 15years. But everything has now changed. The company are continuing to ship across Europe, but are not going near the UK. Iâve checked two other suppliers, both have said the same. I can import via a third party in Belgium - but the price jumps again.
