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If someone wants to be a temp that bad, just find a list of companies and contact them yourself. Offer your services on a temp basis and guess what: there's no agency or commission fees for the company client to pay. Who wouldn't be happy about saving money in this economy? These cheap and overly picky employers make Scrooge look like a Mother Theresa.
If someone wants to be a temp that bad, just find a list of companies and contact them yourself. Offer your services on a temp basis and guess what: there's no agency or commission fees for the company client to pay. Who wouldn't be happy about saving money in this economy? These cheap and overly picky employers make Scrooge look like a Mother Theresa.
Companies that use temp agencies are going to use them. They aren't going to hire a temp on their own.
Companies that use temp agencies are going to use them. They aren't going to hire a temp on their own.
Agreed it is also a shell game. They aren't my employees; they're the employee of Acme temp agency so I don't have to do tax forms, pay benefits, unemployment insurance, Social Security, offer COBRA, I'm not firing them I'm just not renewing the contract with Acme temp agency etc. They have legal shelter by having the temp working via a different company.
I recently sent an e-mail to a recruiter asking her please don't contact me again because you're incompetent. What do you know, the bottom-feeder just called me and left a message "please call me back so we can work through this".
I don't get it, do I have to sue them?
Similar thing in this country, at least in my experience. I was unemployed in the summer and must have had eight or ten phone calls/e-mails from these vermin promising me a job, and whenever I rang them back it would always almost without exception be "Oh, James/Rebecca etc isn't available at the moment, he/she'll ring you back..." - yeah right!
The funniest it got was when I went for an interview for a market research job (not what I ideally wanted, but so close to my house/easy money) in the morning, then they rang me back in the afternoon telling me I'd got the job starting tomorrow, and they'd e-mail the details later. They didn't e-mail me anything at all, but I got up the next morning, got ready for work and rang them first thing asking for the precise address, etc, only for the idiots to tell me I actually didn't have the job after all, and they had sent an e-mail all about it, only they'd sent it to a complete stranger who just happened to have the same first name as me
I just burst out laughing and thanked them for at least amusing me and giving me an anecdote about how ALL recruiters are a bunch of USELESS WANKERS!
I recently sent an e-mail to a recruiter asking her please don't contact me again because you're incompetent. What do you know, the bottom-feeder just called me and left a message "please call me back so we can work through this".
I don't get it, do I have to sue them?
Sounds like your just frustrated with your job search. recruiters ahve to deal with a lot of people and probabyl just didnt realize she keeps calling you, she probably has an auto dialer or a list to go down.
You have no case even if you wanted to sue and since your looking for work you probably shouldn't waste your savings on baseless lawsuits.
Similar thing in this country, at least in my experience. I was unemployed in the summer and must have had eight or ten phone calls/e-mails from these vermin promising me a job, and whenever I rang them back it would always almost without exception be "Oh, James/Rebecca etc isn't available at the moment, he/she'll ring you back..." - yeah right!
The funniest it got was when I went for an interview for a market research job (not what I ideally wanted, but so close to my house/easy money) in the morning, then they rang me back in the afternoon telling me I'd got the job starting tomorrow, and they'd e-mail the details later. They didn't e-mail me anything at all, but I got up the next morning, got ready for work and rang them first thing asking for the precise address, etc, only for the idiots to tell me I actually didn't have the job after all, and they had sent an e-mail all about it, only they'd sent it to a complete stranger who just happened to have the same first name as me I just burst out laughing and thanked them for at least amusing me and giving me an anecdote about how ALL recruiters are a bunch of USELESS WANKERS!
Unprofessional and nasty go hand in hand with many recruiters.
Actually that goes hand in hand with people in many lines of work.
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Originally Posted by ben86
I just burst out laughing and thanked them for at least amusing me and giving me an anecdote about how ALL recruiters are a bunch of USELESS WANKERS!
My first response is that not all recruiters are - between 6 recruiters I spoke with in the second half of December, four of them got me to final interviews - all within three weeks since I got laid off from my last position. So not all of them are "useless".
However, in reading the several threads on here bashing recruiters, I do need to ask a question: For those of you who have obviously had negative experiences with recruiters, what type of positions are these for? I'm wondering if the disconnect between my own (mostly positive) experiences with recruiters (similar to other colleagues of mine) and the bad experiences people are posting about on here may have to do with a difference in the industry that I am in.
Its a sincere question - in discussing my own recent experiences with some of you other posters on the topic, I may very well be comparing apples and pumpkins.
I don't have much problem with recruiters, either. Some handle their jobs better than others. Most that I've worked with are mediocre, but one managed to get me into a final interview, and another is really pulling some strings to get my foot through the door tomorrow.
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Similar thing in this country, at least in my experience. I was unemployed in the summer and must have had eight or ten phone calls/e-mails from these vermin promising me a job, and whenever I rang them back it would always almost without exception be "Oh, James/Rebecca etc isn't available at the moment, he/she'll ring you back..." - yeah right! 
