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

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mummypig6 · 01/11/2023 21:39

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 ?

OP posts:
NigelHarmansNewWife · 02/11/2023 10:05

Recruitment costs money however you do it. A company that doesn't want to pay the agency fee for taking on a temp as a perm member of staff is very short-sighted. A bit like refusing an existing member of staff the pay rise they deserve then when that person leaves for more money elsewhere having to pay more to someone with no experience of the company when they have to recruit externally!

Management in companies make all sorts of stupid decisions then get HR to mop up their mess.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 02/11/2023 10:06

It wouldn't do any harm at all to share the situation with the agency

Agree 100%. A good agency values its temps and doesn't want them to be unhappy or in the wrong job - and they appreciate feedback about the company, as well.

daisybrown37 · 02/11/2023 10:10

And the comments on this thread is why I will never provide HR advice on here.

I will go back to my bored housewife job, where I only protect the company, despite the fact I have already stopped management treating an employee unfairly today and it is only 10am.

backtowinter · 02/11/2023 10:14

Ladyaelic · 02/11/2023 04:04

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.

What's ironic about the HR person's name?

Manadou · 02/11/2023 10:14

DD was placed via an agency with a Civil Service department as a temp for 6 weeks, they said. Then it was 12 weeks, then 'we'll see'. After 6 months they offered her a fixed term contract, and that was eventually made permanent and now she's an HEO.

PinkPantherPrat · 02/11/2023 10:28

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 02/11/2023 10:06

It wouldn't do any harm at all to share the situation with the agency

Agree 100%. A good agency values its temps and doesn't want them to be unhappy or in the wrong job - and they appreciate feedback about the company, as well.

Not sure - I was working on a contract which I hated, recruitment agency were nice and knew I hated it, but the company kept extending my contract behind my back without asking me first!

That came to abrupt end as I was getting screamed at and I thought 'enough' and walked out.

Company threatened to sue me as they hadn't realised I'd opted for PAYE rather than an umbrella company/my own company!

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