IT Recruiters - been ripped off by client - how whould you deal with it?

[Blunderer]

Obviously the wrong forum for sensible discussion about this - I thought a lot of recruitment consultants used this board. Will find one where there are more.

But less of the "shafted" and the laughing. The client has seriously f**ked up.

If he had not stolen the candidate from us (to the guy asking the questions about multiple agencies, the client rejected the candidate and then told us he did not want a contrctor any more. Cut and dried) then his charges to us would have been about 15%, around £1500 for this contract. He now has to pay four times that.

Who says the crime always pays?

[BA to the Stars]

Can we launch a fund "Pimpaid" so that Bluderer can get his cut

[Churchill]

Blunderer, remind your client of the Ts & Cs regarding submitted CVs.

When I get CVs submitted from Pathway et al I have a copy of the Ts & Cs submitted alongside.

Btw Dodgy, we're recruiting staffers again. We're looking for 4 senior software engineers.

[BoredBloke]

Awwww bless. And how many contractors have you shafted along the way. You can hardly expect a load of contractors to give you any sympathy when we have all had agencies pulling a fast one on us.

[DodgyAgent]

Blunderer, remind your client of the Ts & Cs regarding submitted CVs.

When I get CVs submitted from Pathway et al I have a copy of the Ts & Cs submitted alongside.

Btw Dodgy, we're recruiting staffers again. We're looking for 4 senior software engineers.

I will call you in the next few minutes.

[Churchill]

I will call you in the next few minutes.

Ext 4554

[Burdock]

I will call you in the next few minutes.

blood has been sniffed...

[Churchill]

blood has been sniffed...

How about "The scent of blood is in the air..."?

[BA to the Stars]

Obviously the wrong forum for sensible discussion about this - I thought a lot of recruitment consultants used this board. Will find one where there are more.

But less of the "shafted" and the laughing. The client has seriously f**ked up.

If he had not stolen the candidate from us (to the guy asking the questions about multiple agencies, the client rejected the candidate and then told us he did not want a contrctor any more. Cut and dried) then his charges to us would have been about 15%, around £1500 for this contract. He now has to pay four times that.

Who says the crime always pays?

Blunderer - trying to be constructive:

1) - Does your organisation not have a legal department that you could refer to?

2) - Have you spoken to any of your colleagues - have they had any similar experiences?

3) - What is the client worth to you? It could be a commercial decision, if they are never likely to use you again then it could dictate a different course of action then if you have several dozen contractors placed with them

[hugebrain]

Can you pass the guys IP address to the filth?

Sounds like this agent has confessed to some sort of crime involving telephone fraud. Can you pass his details to the police and maybe get a reward?

Concerned contractors will all want to stop these sorts of deceptive practices. What is the maximum sentence?