Badenoch & Clarke...

[northernladuk]

My first gig was with B+C.

I was offered the contract at 200 per day to which I agreed, only to be called a day or so later by the pimp to say the client has reconsidered and is only offering 175 per day. He then went on to say - all is not lost , I've pushed hard and got the client to increase their daily rate offer to 186 per day. Being my first contract, I was nervous and reluctantly agreed.

As time has progressed, I've discovered the minimum rate B+C offer for a gig at said client is....you guessed it... 186 per day.
so..pimp robbed me of 14 per day by slieght of hand.

Weasel-faced little f***er.

Grrr

Here is the key line. So the client is offering 175 which is going to you... The agent is doing it for free then? Should have told him to shove it at that point and mentioned it to the client.

[Sumutai]

My first gig was with B+C.

I was offered the contract at 200 per day to which I agreed, only to be called a day or so later by the pimp to say the client has reconsidered and is only offering 175 per day. He then went on to say - all is not lost , I've pushed hard and got the client to increase their daily rate offer to 186 per day. Being my first contract, I was nervous and reluctantly agreed.

As time has progressed, I've discovered the minimum rate B+C offer for a gig at said client is....you guessed it... 186 per day.
so..pimp robbed me of 14 per day by slieght of hand.

Weasel-faced little f***er.

Grrr

[Sausage Surprise]

Hmmm...an old thread of mine resurrected. As it happens the role I took with B&C turned out to be the worst role I ever took on. Should have realised on day one, when sat at my predecessor's desk and asked what happened to him.....no one replied.



They did pay me on time though (when I managed to get a timesheet signed by the "Project Executive Delivery Manager" aka twat)

[icstemp]

Not the best. I found a role and started. The client pulled the gig after two days. B&C wont go after the client for fear of losing future business. B&C equally wont compensate me in any way saying they have a clause in the contract that states if the client pulls the rug then they have no liability. I am looking at taking B&C to Tribunal! There legal team made an offer to settle then pulled the offer the day after having "reviewed the contract" Best bit is the contract is with an umbrella and not me but they have failed to ever send the contract to the umbrella or get the contract signed off by the client. They totally messed up big time!

I feel you pain, they did something similar to me. I received nothing but deceit from Badenoch and Clark and lack of support, throughout the contract. Even the contract itself ether had incorrect location details for my main office base and missed out vital information for mileage and traveling within the role, to aid full control to their client. Which in my case was the NHS I.T. 'Badenoch and Clark'. Con merchants.... I learnt the hard way.

[buddy6990]

Badenoch and Clark

Not the best. I found a role and started. The client pulled the gig after two days. B&C wont go after the client for fear of losing future business. B&C equally wont compensate me in any way saying they have a clause in the contract that states if the client pulls the rug then they have no liability. I am looking at taking B&C to Tribunal! There legal team made an offer to settle then pulled the offer the day after having "reviewed the contract" Best bit is the contract is with an umbrella and not me but they have failed to ever send the contract to the umbrella or get the contract signed off by the client. They totally messed up big time!

[TestMangler]

Never worked for them but used to get phone calls insisting that, due to ISO 9000, they required two references before they could talk to me about roles

[Zippy]

After accepting the role they have sent me mountains of forms to fill in...BEFORE....they will send me the contract.
Inevitably they want last 2 years of references but they also want to do a credit check. The only time I've been credit checked by an agency was for a role in Finance which is understandable, but this role is definitely not financial. I have ticked the "No" box on the form giving their permission to credt check me. Wonder what will happen.

I'm sure it will be fine. Some of the questions are only applicable to their PAYE employees anyway and it wasn't a problem when I said I wasn't going to answer them.
They'll scan all this stuff so you won't have to supply it next time.
They cough up weekly and on time, and are generally pleasant to deal with.

[Sockpuppet]

After accepting the role they have sent me mountains of forms to fill in...BEFORE....they will send me the contract.
Inevitably they want last 2 years of references but they also want to do a credit check. The only time I've been credit checked by an agency was for a role in Finance which is understandable, but this role is definitely not financial. I have ticked the "No" box on the form giving their permission to credt check me. Wonder what will happen.

Tell them they can credit check your company all they want. If they insist as for their personal details so you can credit check their office staff.

I used to work through B&C and a lot of the paperwork was rubbish. If you ignore it they don't ask a second time and just let you get on with it.

[Wobblyheed]

After accepting the role they have sent me mountains of forms to fill in...BEFORE....they will send me the contract.
Inevitably they want last 2 years of references but they also want to do a credit check. The only time I've been credit checked by an agency was for a role in Finance which is understandable, but this role is definitely not financial. I have ticked the "No" box on the form giving their permission to credt check me. Wonder what will happen.

[TheFaQQer]

Only time I spoke to them, they had no knowledge of the role and suggested that for some of the "less lucrative work", they would just palm it off to someone else and have them at the top of the agency chain.

Shame they missed out on 2 1/2 years of margin on that one, really.

[Old Greg]

They were the first agency I worked through. Very efficient and pleasant and no problems with payment.

[northernladuk]

Can't comment directly put slap this in google and you get 48 forum posts about them for you to peruse.

badenoch site:forums.contractoruk.com

[Wobblyheed]

any good?

Edit: Sorry chaps that was very lazy - have just done a search and they seem OK by the looks of it.