Reply to: Reference after two years???

[PAH]

I agree (2 posts up).

I agree too (5 posts up from yours! ner, ner, ner, ner ner).

[Another Dodgy Agent]

If you don't know the answer and how to handle 'your agent' you should return to permiedom asap.

This one works good "I got out of jail after serving 4 years for attempted murder. Now how about that rate rise".

Only served four years for attempted murder? What was the murder weapon a paperclip?

[Cheshire Cat]

Give them the old "J. R. Hartley" reference. Or "Mr Robert Showaddiwaddi".

[expat]

get them to contact your current gig for the reference.

I agree (2 posts up).

[NiceUpNorth]

get them to contact your current gig for the reference.

[Durbs]

And what are they going to do if you dont supply it? Cancel your contract and seriously annoy their client?

I've had my agency pestering for stuff like this numerous times in the past and i simply dont reply to them and they always give up.

[expat]

Have contracted through agency at same client for over 18 months and signed another 6 month extension 2 weeks ago. I have just had a call from the agency saying that they are 'doing an audit' of all their contractors and it appears that they have had no references for me from previous employment.
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Do I dish up the reference? I have no problem with references but I do not want people who have provided this for me in the past to be inundated with sales calls from agency.

Thoughts? (Agency is Allegis)

'doing an audit' = trawling through all possible sources for leads to call.

... inundated with sales calls from agency: yes, that is the sole point of this exercise.

Ask them to contact your current client for a reference!

[TykeMerc]

If you don't know the answer and how to handle 'your agent' you should return to permiedom asap.

Turion for frogs sake change the damn record, your aggression just makes you look like a mammary gland.

[minestrone]

Agency is Allegis

My agent has been trying to do this with me since I joined about 4 months ago, client told me it was nothing to do with them and I have had an extension already. Agent insists that it is the client.

Best talk to the client like I did and see what the truth is, I just said "if you, the client, want it fine but I suspect the agent is fishing"

They confirmed they were fishing.

[Turion]

If you don't know the answer and how to handle 'your agent' you should return to permiedom asap.

This one works good "I got out of jail after serving 4 years for attempted murder. Now how about that rate rise".

[swamp]

Definitely tulipe from the agent, but if they're persistent I can see it could be awkward. My advice would be to fob them off with excuses until Christmas and worry about it next year.

[PAH]

I've heard it all now.

Tell them to refer to your ClientCo (they already have the details!) for a reference, as that's the only one relevant after 18 months and several extensions.

What are they going to do if you refuse!? Nothing at all, they don't make the decisions about your current contract, the ClientCo does.

[EqualOpportunities]

I had this once. Can't remember who it was. Told them to FRO.

[premiere]

Agency is Allegis

[BolshieBastard]

That's one desparate agent! Tell them to feck off. Tell us who the agent is.