Can I add Manpower to the list of agencies to be keel-hauled with great prejudice?
This bunch of wankers were not so wankery in 2010-2011 - I managed to have work for about half of each of those years. None lasting for longer than six weeks though, of course.
Then mid 2011 they moved all their centres to London. Now the uppity arrogant twats who answer the phones have no idea who I am, what I'm looking for or where I am - every time I ring to ask for work, half the time the number rings once then goes 'number disconnected' or they sniff and go 'oh we have nothing to match YOUR experience!!' Their emails keep offering stuff in SURREY. For minimum wage.
And since then only one person I know has actually received anything of worth from them - my Housemate. The same day they tell me they have nothing they're able to turn around and offer her yet another long-term full-time admin job in our home city. Fucking pissy liars. Housemate isn't pleased when I bitch because she feels bad that Manpower are giving her preferential treatment - she's tried to ask on my behalf before, especially for roles where they've been asking for more than one person, only to be told 'make her call us instead, in this world you need to be selfish!!' - then when I call less than a minute later, oh no, no jobs there, not had any for weeks.
*shoots*
I don't trust agencies. Manpower can go and DIAF. All the others are either completely useless or require ridiculous amounts of concurrent experience before they would even accept you, ignoring the vicious cycle of experience which they are helping to propogate. Housemate has found a small local one; I've told her I'm not trusting them until or unless they actually do something.
This bunch of wankers were not so wankery in 2010-2011 - I managed to have work for about half of each of those years. None lasting for longer than six weeks though, of course.
Then mid 2011 they moved all their centres to London. Now the uppity arrogant twats who answer the phones have no idea who I am, what I'm looking for or where I am - every time I ring to ask for work, half the time the number rings once then goes 'number disconnected' or they sniff and go 'oh we have nothing to match YOUR experience!!' Their emails keep offering stuff in SURREY. For minimum wage.
And since then only one person I know has actually received anything of worth from them - my Housemate. The same day they tell me they have nothing they're able to turn around and offer her yet another long-term full-time admin job in our home city. Fucking pissy liars. Housemate isn't pleased when I bitch because she feels bad that Manpower are giving her preferential treatment - she's tried to ask on my behalf before, especially for roles where they've been asking for more than one person, only to be told 'make her call us instead, in this world you need to be selfish!!' - then when I call less than a minute later, oh no, no jobs there, not had any for weeks.
*shoots*
I don't trust agencies. Manpower can go and DIAF. All the others are either completely useless or require ridiculous amounts of concurrent experience before they would even accept you, ignoring the vicious cycle of experience which they are helping to propogate. Housemate has found a small local one; I've told her I'm not trusting them until or unless they actually do something.
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