Awful recruitment agency or am I just too sensitive 😢

So?

If you wanted to know, ask. If you are unemployed, then who cares what the rate is on a temp job. You take the job, prove yourself, and negotiate for a higher salary on the next one.

If I were your work coach I would be sanctioning you for being too picky and not biting the agencies hand off when they offered you this role.

Sorry I would have declined the call but immediately texted to advise him I was in an interview/job centre. And ask could he text/could he wait an hour to speak. I don’t understand why you wouldn't do this given the job market is so poor and you’ve been looking for 4m? Especially given you have restrictions on hours you are available. He probably spent a considerable time persuading this client to consider you given the latter and you couldn’t be bothered with a polite holding text?

I’m not surprised he was annoyed and told you so [odd how so many people interpret that as being rude, when it was actually you being rude].

Yet another AIBU thread in which the OP obviously doesn't think they're being unreasonable in the slightest.
You say in your second post that you've dropped this agency so you'd already made your decision about them.

There should be a "Looking for Reassurance and Positive Strokes" board; I think it would be very popular.

Most people using temp agencies are desperate for work. There are more people available than jobs so its a bunfight when something comes in and the quickest responder wins.

If you have been working for a long time & are highly skilled, you are better off going to a more specialised recruiter or head hunter, where the quality of the candidate is more important & so the recruiters want to woo the best.

What industry is your expertise in?

You still seem fixated on the recruiter and determined to paint him as the 'bad guy'.

Why do you care about the hourly rate for a job you're clearly not interested in? Perhaps you should focus on the 4 other interviews you claim to have, rather than spending your time complaining about someone you will never contact again.

He probably would have, if you'd returned his call.

To answer your OP, you sound too sensitive, and have an outdated / unreasonable view on how it works with temp roles and recruitment agencies.

To answer your original question, yes you are being too sensitive. If I was the recruiter I would be dropping you at this point anyway. Sure he was rude at the end, but you sound difficult to work with, and your responses so far in this thread make you look pretty inflexible. If you’re looking for temp jobs you need to be responsive. Sounds like you’re use to the process for permanent roles, expecting a detailed job description and longer time scales, but this isn’t usually the case for temp.

He was rude but you’re expecting too much from a recruitment agency. They receive their commission from the employer so at the end of the day will be working for them.

Red flag? You’re not having a relationship with him. You wouldn’t be working with him. He was rude but I expect he is exasperated with you. You should have answered the phone while you were waiting for the interview. You could have quickly told him where you were so the conversation would have been brief.

Yo weren’t being harassed. I think you let your mask slip here. Yeah he could have been straight and told it like it is but if you were really looking and wanted to work you would be doing everything to do so.

I don't believe for a second he was as rude as he is being painted to be, based on the OP's general attitude towards the whole thing.
It's like when people post someone 'screamed' at them; ridiculous.

One of my sons works in recruitment. It is a high-pressure sales environment driven by bonuses and the recruiter gets the money when they fill a post. His interest is in finding someone to fill that post before someone else does.

When I had temp roles, I was never supplied with a job spec, only a basic overview from the agency of what the employer wanted me to do.

There were times I missed out on a job because I missed the call - I didn’t blame the agency for that.

I have not voted because I think both sides sound a tad unreasonable. He should not have shouted. Your post sounds a tad entitled in your expectations.

It is good you left the agency. I'm sure you will find an agency with a better personality fit for you.

So why bother posting as you clearly think you were right?

Well that's OK, because as you told us, you are a busy woman with many job interviews.

To be fair, when you said that to the agent, he may well have been put off you totally..

As that busy woman with many interviews, it won't be any skin off your nose, so... all good.

I’m a contractor and I work through recruitment companies and I can tell you jobs move very quick indeed, when I’m out of contract or my next one is coming to an end, I do answer or at the very least get back to them that same day.

I think I would have prioritised a bird in the hand - the temp role. The jobcentre literally want you to find work so would have been over the moon if you said I'm really sorry I need to take this in the middle of signing on.

My experience of temp agencies is that they prioritise reliable people they have worked with over unknowns so it's hard to get that first job through them, then easy to get the next ones. And I've NEVER had a job description for a temp role.

He sounds very rude but it also sounds like you think the recruitment agents job is to find you a job which it isn’t, that’s not how it works. Good luck with the job hunt!

When my kids joined a temp agency - I told them to prioritise communications with their recruiter, never be the blocker - make it look like you’d be a dream to work with. When you have a job you have more leverage - currently you have none.

You wouldn’t be working with him! He gets his client some candidates, they hire one, they pay him the fee, he moves on.

Unless we have misunderstood what you mean by ‘recruiter’.

Well, that's one way to ignore all productive responses.

In what way do you believe you will be "working with him" if they land you a job? Surely you'd be focused on the job itself!