Agencies to avoid....

[Eirikur]

I have the same feeling and sometimes hard to understand, but this is not the worse, it's the kind of questions they made.

e.g:

Where are you from?
Portugal
Do you have a Portuguese passport or an European passport?
I'm portuguese so I have a Portuguese passport
But i'ts an european passport?

LOOL

Following this, I lost interest to hearing the rest...

LOL I Had some very similar conversations before I had a British Passport

What nationality are you? Dutch. Do yo have the right to work in the UK what visa do you have? I'm EU citizen. So can you work in the UK? Yes according to my CV which you have in front of you and you say is very interesting I worked the last 10 years in the UK -- hang up

[WTFH]

Vector Resourcing Limited.


1. Take 25% off the top
2. Late payments
3. No direct email communication with their staff, only group email addresses (replies never have a name on them)
4. Direct phone conversations are recorded (whether you like it or not) and they will claim you/they said things in them which you don't believe was said, but the recordings sometimes "go missing" when you ask to hear them, or when they are supposed to be presented to court.
5. Misrepresent you to the clientco and misrepresent the clientco to you.
6. Will claim clientco are not paying them and thus they don't need to pay you
7. Will accuse you of a variety of things, mostly false or unproven
8. Final payment will be at least a month later than all other payments, can be more than a year. Clientco will be blamed, you will be blamed, and they'll claim it's within the contract
9. When asked a simple question, will reply with reams of pages of response unrelated to the question but will make new accusations in said pages
10. Accuse you of "bribery" when you ask them to cut their %.


...want me to go on?

[Bee]

Yep. Ive been getting calls from them or another similar company. Staffed by Indians with a very poor grasp of English and using such crap phones every word sounds distorted.

I have the same feeling and sometimes hard to understand, but this is not the worse, it's the kind of questions they made.

e.g:

Where are you from?
Portugal
Do you have a Portuguese passport or an European passport?
I'm portuguese so I have a Portuguese passport
But i'ts an european passport?

LOOL

Following this, I lost interest to hearing the rest...

[SueEllen]

Yep. Ive been getting calls from them or another similar company. Staffed by Indians with a very poor grasp of English and using such crap phones every word sounds distorted.

They call you over Skype (or similar) but have bad internet connections.

Also they are getting more adventurous with their UK phone numbers....

[BolshieBastard]

Sounds like the calls and voicemail messages I had last week. I literally couldn't understand what they were saying and couldn't even work out what the guy's name was nevermind the company he worked for!

Yep. Ive been getting calls from them or another similar company. Staffed by Indians with a very poor grasp of English and using such crap phones every word sounds distorted.

[Bozwell]

Blackapple Solutions Ltd some Indian outfit that call you from a London based number, hardly understandable what they are saying, called me 4 days in a row about the same job, told them the first time the rate was only 1/2 of what I usually ask and they seemed to complete ignore it or not understand it. Second time they called me I told them politely they called me the day before and hung up 3d and 4th time I just shouted at them not to call me anymore

Sounds like the calls and voicemail messages I had last week. I literally couldn't understand what they were saying and couldn't even work out what the guy's name was nevermind the company he worked for!

[Bozwell]

Hello:

This ****ers at <mod snip> don't even tell you that they will be taking a part of the daily rate.

I am ok with them taking a one-off fee for finding a customer, but they deliberately hide the fact that the contract is signed between them and the final customer, taking a good part of our hard earned money.

I think you need to tell us all which agencies DON'T do that as I want to use this charitiy organisation for my next contract!

[Eirikur]

Blackapple Solutions Ltd some Indian outfit that call you from a London based number, hardly understandable what they are saying, called me 4 days in a row about the same job, told them the first time the rate was only 1/2 of what I usually ask and they seemed to complete ignore it or not understand it. Second time they called me I told them politely they called me the day before and hung up 3d and 4th time I just shouted at them not to call me anymore

[NibblyPig]

How on earth is that hidden, you sign a contract between you and the agency not between you and the client.

[eek]

I've snipped the name and allowed this through to let you know that this is how all agencies work. The agency you named is doing nothing out of the ordinary.

They may be taking a large percentage commission which is greedy, but that is a different story.

+1. Also the agency will probably be factoring your invoices and paying you well before they get paid... That costs money and that needs to be included in the x% they are taking...