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Originally posted by valkyrie
Dear stupid temp agency people --
Why call me and tell me you have a position starting Monday and then completely lose interest in me when I say I have an interview on Thursday so might not be able to make it that day? Next time I won't be honest and I'll just call in sick that day so I don't lose two weeks of work.
Then I really liked it when you called back at 3:45 on a Friday afternoon saying that you have left messages for my references but can't send me out on a job until you talk to them. Do you think you're going to get ahold of many people on a Friday afternoon, especially people in other time zones where it's later than it is here? WTF? Why didn't you call them Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday? Why did you call me and tell me all about this job that sounds really great and starts Monday if you knew you couldn't send me without talking to my references and you hadn't even tried to call them yet?
You suck, dumbass.
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valkyrie, hopefully I can shed some light on this for you. First of all YES they are Dumb-asses. I worked for a General staffing agency for 7 years. I guarantee you they haven't checked your references because 90% of the time it can't be done. The majority of companies won't verify anything but dates and position title. That is usually just an excuse used. Second they are afraid that if you take the position, interview on thursday and that company wants to offer you a position, you won't complete the 2 week contract. It is kind of a catch 22. If you don't tell them, call in sick and then don't get the job they would probably end your assignment for missing 1 day in a 2 week assignment. However if they had asked their customer if it would be ok for you to miss a couple hours for an interview they probably would have been ok with it knowing that this was only a 2 week assignment. They are just too afraid to talk to their customer. But to sum it all up they are DUMB-ASSES