Found a temp job happy for once in my life and then they did this to me

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Started a temp job it was until the end of October, ok all great .

Then after the first week we want to take you on , so November we will incorporate two jobs for you and you will go permanent with us.

I had lots of experience for both jobs the company they saw my set skills and took it on board .

Second week so money can’t allow it for you to go permanently in November

We can take you on permanently January and you do both jobs but until then carry on temping for us , I said ok.

Third week we can’t can’t take you on for either job can you just do this job now the main one we took you on for as a temp.

Long term means we want someone permanent and now cheaper than agency, I was told.

I say ok for how long will the main job be for ? Well we don’t know ? We will let you know.

I don’t want to do the main job had no help no training and when I asked for help they all stood there arguing infront of me the other day as I had a problem with a Rude customer.

And then let me deal with it, I understand customer services but been dumped right in it.

I understand as it’s a temp job but I gave up interviews for this which I was told you now have a permanent job with us.

Tomorrow everyone is working from home , storm etc or either sick , I also was Ill
I went in so they were not short staffed and then this.

I’m expected to go in after this I’m upset I know it was a temp job but why promise a job and then go back on it.

My Dad said it’s not meant to be I’m upset please be kind .

Why can’t I get a break and where do I go now ?

Get another temp job and leave them to recruit. You were contracted til end of October just leave.

Sorry OP, it is never nice to get your hopes up or be let down.

I would job hunt or temp elsewhere. The lesson here is to ask to see contracts immediately when permanent roles are offered and not proceed without. Do not forego other interviews for temporary situations.

I know in hindsight these things are obvious but I would accept this is a non starter and focus on moving on as quickly as possible. Hope you find something suitable quickly.

Despite seeming nice they are flakey as fuck and you have dodged a bullet. Find another temporary position ASAP. You obviously have skills that other employers will value so keep applying and good luck. Hope you feel better soon as well

I had a similar experience with a nutty HR person in my early twenties (called Karen ironically). It's the reason I have never trusted HR people since and why I ended up working for the NHS first time round. Find another job if you can, and when you do walk away, don't look back, and always get everything any HR person or manager says in triplicate (or at least an email with confirmation receipt) from now on. And don't trust anything until you have a signed contract in hand.

In my case the lying baggage told me at the end of the week that they'd make sure they gave me enough time to get another contract elsewhere and I came in the following Monday to find another temp in the office. I walked out in a fury and took great joy in the fact that the new temp stayed less than an hour and they then had the bloody gall to phone me and ask if I'd come back. They even had the brass neck to get one of the managers I'd been quite friendly with to call me to try to persuade me. Er, no, no, no, and triple no.

This wasn't a small company either, think a firm starting with GPT whose second bit rhymes with messy. It really made me realise how nasty and untrustworthy most HR people are and sadly most of those I've met since have been just as bad. I generally refer to it as the Bored Housewives profession with a very few exceptions.

In the medium to longer term though it put me on a much more sustainable track, and I hope you will also get something much better out of the experience. You just need to get past this bit.

In my admittedly not recent experience, your temp agency would probably charge a large one off recruiters fee for them to take you perm, otherwise the agency would just lose staff all over the place. So it's cheaper for the company to recruit someone else. Sometimes you could get around it by say leaving the agency then applying for an advertised post separately but that obviously leaves you hanging and at risk in the meantime. So it's possible the mixed messages may be due to a manager wanting to take you on but then finding out about the fee/being told the company has a policy of not paying fees to recruit permanent staff.

@Ladyaelic funny that. I have found most encounters with HR people to be also really unsatisfactory and unprofessional too.

Op, take action, take control and find another job.

Its tough. I did temp agency work for a company on and off for three years. Lovely references, would love to keep you on if we had the budget. I got on with life / other jobs etc, Eventually a permanent role came up and I got it so it does happen.

@Ladyaelic sorry what has her name got to do with it? Reported for being offensive.

I have never had a temp job that actually went permanent, not even the so-called temp-to-perm ones. I’ve come to the conclusion that they’re mainly a myth, and they advertise themselves as such to get you to stay longer. There was one company that did ask me to apply for it permanently, but it was such a toxic company that I declined their invitation, and I’ve realised it’s a bit of a red flag if an organisation is constantly staffed by temps.

A lot of HR people are toxic AF. I get that they’re there to protect the employer rather than the employees, but still, they are nasty, victim-blaming, backstabbing people who will screw people over to save their own skin. Their dishonesty is on a par with lettings agents.

I temped for years and agree with a PP that it is likely to be due to the agency fees charged if they took you on permanently.

Also once an agency has you temping they sometimes keep you that way and don’t inform you of permanent posts, so it’s maybe an idea to join another one to give you more options.

Can you look out for where the role is advertised externally and apply that way if you want to stay?

Don’t take it personally or get too down about it, your Dad is right.

Hope it works out for you 😀

To the people saying they temped for several years, did this affect your ability to get a permanent job somewhere else? I’ve been temping for years now and my CV is in bits, and I’m convinced nobody’s going to want to employ me. Admittedly I haven’t even started looking yet.

Oh look another hr bashing thread when the op had nothing to do with hr, how nice!

It's cos HR are so very often so very shit and they need to know if.

I've had a temp to perm job which was great. Stayed for a couple of years but got made redundant.

Got another temp job which was for maternity cover and the agency kept telling me they were going to speak to HR about getting me a contract but it was clearly bullshit. In the meantime I kept applying for jobs and going for interviews because I really wanted a permanent role. I got one and the agency were furious because I gave them a week's notice and left. Been in this role ever since and very happy.

I had two perm jobs come out of temping; also one where she wanted to recruit me as a perm but I baled after three weeks because the job was so awful and one where I resigned at the end of probation.

It's lucky escape from a flakey unprofessional company. I was interviewed for a TA job but a qualified teacher beat me by one point. Told me I could have the next TA job, yet they employed another person, didn't tell me there was another job vacancy.

I then went for a TA job at dd school. I was the only applicant,so they extended the deadline and didn't even interview me. I have years of volunteering in my kids various schools and classes. I have been a governor at a sen school for 6 years. I have a stem degree. I worked a science tech in a school and college for years. But the last job said I didn't have enough experience. I think the reality is that my dd has ASD and they don't want me inside school where I might bump into her. So why not just say that?

The only way I could get more experience is working full time unpaid in a school for a few months. I was going to retrain as a biology teacher but just took this as a sign. If I'm suitable as a TA I'd make the dregs of a teacher

But what I meant was, if you apply directly for a permanent job somewhere else where you haven’t temped, will it put employers off if you’ve been temping for years? Would your CV be considered bad?

I also find it impossible to apply for anything where you have to fill in an application form with your work history as I’ve done so many little bits and pieces.

But what I meant was, if you apply directly for a permanent job somewhere else where you haven’t temped, will it put employers off if you’ve been temping for years? Would your CV be considered bad?

I've never had that as an issue because I got the jobs from temping. I don't see why it should - people choose to temp for all sorts of reasons, flexibility, wanting to have time to do other things, health, caring, just wanting a career break...I'd assume that an employer wants to know if you can do the job. Temping isn't really the same as job hopping IMO.

Find a permanent job elsewhere. They are messing you about.

What is a good temp agency to go with??
Do they pay into your pension?
I'm south west london

I temp on contracts.

I never do temp to perm as too much risk for me.

@PositanoBay , they’re all much the same but try Brook Street, Crone corkhill. Reed have been rubbish and so have some smaller agencies.

Most agencies will set you up so you have pay into their pension scheme.

If it suits you, try a longer term temp role in a corporate company.

Robert Half is good for finance IME. Page Personnel/Michael Page have all sorts of specialisms, not just finance.

Usually if an employer wants to take on a temp they have to pay a hefty fee to the agency until 6 months after the placement started, so a flaky company may not have realised that. Of course it could all have been bullshit to keep you from walking once you realised how flaky the company is. I have found that it pays to keep in touch with your worker at the agency, when DD was with Hays they were really good to her, and when she knew placements were coming to an end would actively seek to place her in new ones. It wouldn't do any harm at all to share the situation with the agency.

I’ve personally found Page/Michael Page to be rubbish recently. And when I referred a specialist friend to them for perm work, same.