Primesource sucks! A friend of mine worked for them for 2 years at the same company and when she was laid off Primesource is refusing to give her unemployment saying she was fired when she wasn't.
Anyway. I finally found a real job but I had something lined up with Addeco before I took this job. They were very helpful. At least the Westminster office, I can't vouch for the other offices.
I haven't tried Adecco yet. I'm blacklisted with Primesource, btw. Last time they pulled their bait and switch shit I finally told them exactly what I thought of them. Mind, sometimes job ads pop up and they dont state which agency it's with--I respond to them and then they call me which is a little awkward!
Great to hear Ranstad are morons across the country. They kept insisting I had to be charged local tax, erroneously assuming I resided in the city- but I never have. They were like "well our map says it" and I was like "my map doesn't"..idiots.
Yep. then there was the time I had told them I'd needed specific hours/bus accessible but they kept calling about stuff outside my hours/not bus acessible.
If it's any consolation at all, recruitment agencies are like that here on the other side of the world. Back home in the UK, you'd apply for a job with an agency, tell them you ONLY wanted permanent work and were only applying for *this* specific job - but noooo, they "HAD" to have you come in and go through the rigmarole of filling in their forms and doing their computer literacy tests and going on their books. And then OOPS! That job you applied for doesn't exist - I mean, it was JUST FILLED! But look, we have these other jobs that aren't even remotely in the field you're interested in/are part-time/are temporary/pay far less than the minimum you've stated will work for you! YAY!
Here in New Zealand, it's kind of much the same. I recently registered with an agency, took about an hour filling in their massive online registration forms, and eventually three days later got a standard "Thanks for registering, we'll be in touch if we have anything that suits your skill set" email. Yeah. I'm not holding my breath.
I spent nine months in New Zealand, and I saw how rough things are starting to get there :( Someone should tell Key 'Stop trying to make NZ like the US!'
I was to have my old job back upon coming back to the US, but it was outsourced to India :( Hence, me hurry-scurrying around to find work. My partner lives there and she's in dire straights, so we're trying to get her over here with me.
God, yes. It's NOT the US, it's NOT Australia, maybe you should just be trying to batten down the hatches and get through the CURRENT economy right now instead of trying to completely change it to someone else's model? Jerk.
*is dragged off by NZ Secret Service goons for pro-Key re-education*
Typical of agencies anywhere you go. Dealing w/ them is a PITA. About the only exception is if they've got a LARGE contract to fill, then the odds in one's favor increase a fair amount. But, how's an applicant to know that (unless they post it in their ad
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I have nothing but hate for employment agencies in metro Detroit. My husband has dealt with a few of them in his 2 years of unemployment hell, and it's always the same crap. They dangle the carrot by assuring him they've got TONS of jobs they could send him to Right Now! But they're lousy jobs, so they're going to try getting him a Real Job first, but if that doesn't work they really will send him on temp assignments and whatnot in just a few weeks!
So he goes off on interviews for a few weeks, gets our collective hopes up, and then... nothing. Then the agency stops returning phone calls. Temp jobs? What temp jobs? Oh gee, did we promise to get you work of some sort - any sort - within a month? Oopsie, so sorry!
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Anyway. I finally found a real job but I had something lined up with Addeco before I took this job. They were very helpful. At least the Westminster office, I can't vouch for the other offices.
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Here in New Zealand, it's kind of much the same. I recently registered with an agency, took about an hour filling in their massive online registration forms, and eventually three days later got a standard "Thanks for registering, we'll be in touch if we have anything that suits your skill set" email. Yeah. I'm not holding my breath.
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I was to have my old job back upon coming back to the US, but it was outsourced to India :( Hence, me hurry-scurrying around to find work. My partner lives there and she's in dire straights, so we're trying to get her over here with me.
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*is dragged off by NZ Secret Service goons for pro-Key re-education*
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So he goes off on interviews for a few weeks, gets our collective hopes up, and then... nothing. Then the agency stops returning phone calls. Temp jobs? What temp jobs? Oh gee, did we promise to get you work of some sort - any sort - within a month? Oopsie, so sorry!
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