These guys suck the big one (Adecco)

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Product:	Adecco
Date:	19/11/01 (400 review reads)
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Advantages: Computer application, Friendly at first, Clean

Disadvantages: Pompous, Poor service, Loyalty

There are two agencies you should avoid if you are not a multi skilled genius. One is Reed personnel, which I have duly slated, and the other is these guys.
They are one of the biggest of the 102 in Northampton. Because we have a vast swathe of cheap asylum seeker labour here, its fairly hard to undercut the refugees who will work any hours or pay.

Adecco isn’t in that line of business though on the whole and creams of the graduates and seasonal workers like me. But the problem is that with these guys you only get one shot to impress when your first contract assignment.

It does start well though as you enter their friendly efficient offices. They allow temps applied to apply on their excellent computerized enrolment service that speeds up the process three fold. You then get a pleasant interview by their professional staff.

But there is an air of ”I’m doing you a favor” from their prim presentation and if I give you a job you wont let me down. It’s almost as if you have been honoured like the Mafia and you should do them a return favour one-day.

Well anyway they sent me to the biggest white-collar employer in town by the name of Barclaycard credit services to a position that seemed ideal until Christmas. But this job they had described so excitedly for a temp position turned out to be stuffing envelopes.

Now I’ve done some sh***y jobs before with equally erroneous lavish job descriptions. But an admin cleric with good computer and communications skills, and good team player isn’t an envelope stuffer.

Now bull s**t isn’t a new buzzword in Britain’s employment agencies as students and mums may well know. But when you tell them that the job isn’t quite what I thought it was and can I do something else two days before you leave, you don’t expect not to hear from them again.

As a big agency that’s well connected and labelled, you woul
d expect them to have a lot of good positions advertised in the windows. But every time I go into ask about jobs I can do with my skills, they look at you like a pariah.
‘Its that guy that only lasted four days with the enveloping machine’ they whisper. Hey I challenge anyone out there to last more than four days with a printer and five thousand leaflets under your toes. That thing was pumping more than Peter Stringfellow, 24/7!.

I read the small print and felt I was correct in the notice I gave to a job that I presume many before have lifted the conk to. Yet they wont even give me the time of day or chance to do something else.
My other agencies ring me all the time and laugh and joke if the position is health and safety officer for the Thalaban.

I’m wondering weather any other dooyooers have been messed around by these guys on a similar rap sheet. If you have I would like to know. These big shot agencies have all the good contracts and you need to be on their side.

Northampton is tough enough on the transient workers as it is with the asylum seekers, any students who rely on work in the summer here will tell you that.
Using refugees as a large pool of cheap labour is why they have been invited, and now chucked out as recession bites.
Agencies like Adecco should offer people work that has the skills and enthusiasm. Yes there are sour grapes here, but at least I have got it out of my system.

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