Reply to: Recruitment Agents/Agencies why are they so useless

[SQLSwerver]

Dear SQLSwerver,

I am totally agreeing with you mate, I might be from Eastern Europe perhaps I didn't even go to school or perhaps I am just like you born bread English and value the country I am living or perhaps I have been living in this GREAT COUNTRY for avery long time.

However by reading your COMMENTS that shows me and us all who's the most educated person. I think you are a type of man who has chip on his shoulders or perhaps you are a type of person who's a bully at work but that's not enough you would like to spread your wings want to do your bullying here too.

By the way if you don't like my threads just don't read them mate and be COOL .

I think it will be boring continually re-reading just three threads.

On the chance that you still care enough post-ban to read this, I agree that IT agents are largely scum. I suffered a lot at their hands when I first started in IT, and at the time, and I didn't have the shared knowledge this site existence gives. At least you had a place to air your grievances against agents.

However, for your own good, the fact that they are vermin is a fact which henceforth you had better learn to work around, not against, otherwise you will never succeed.

I daresay, when or if you are well-established, the chip on YOUR shoulder will be a very light one indeed.

Good luck.

[TykeMerc]

Obvious sockpuppet is very obvious.

[cojak]

Nope SORRY DUDE. I am just like you mate staying here where I am. I can see right now your disappointed face...

Not as disappointed as yours is, matey.

[Lastlonger]

And he may be going out the way he came in...

Nope SORRY DUDE. I am just like you mate staying here where I am. I can see right now your disappointed face...

[cojak]

And he may be going out the way he came in...

[Lastlonger]

As you have said

The fact that he feels so strongly about pimp incompetence/dishonesty that he made two separate threads about it in his first three posts.

Working "Freelance" for 10 years? Nahhhh. Maybe on eBay or whatever, maybe. Honestly, after a decade in this business, who the \\ck still rails against pimps?

I suspect, given his writing style and sense of affront, he's some East Euro who went to school and/or college during that first post-Communist decade, did a further decade in IT, now he's made his way to the UK and expected the agents here to be as tightly regulated as they are back in Mother Russia/Poland or wherever.

Dear SQLSwerver,

I am totally agreeing with you mate, I might be from Eastern Europe perhaps I didn't even go to school or perhaps I am just like you born bread English and value the country I am living or perhaps I have been living in this GREAT COUNTRY for avery long time.

However by reading your COMMENTS that shows me and us all who's the most educated person. I think you are a type of man who has chip on his shoulders or perhaps you are a type of person who's a bully at work but that's not enough you would like to spread your wings want to do your bullying here too.

By the way if you don't like my threads just don't read them mate and be COOL .

[cojak]

The fact that he feels so strongly about pimp incompetence/dishonesty that he made two separate threads about it in his first three posts.

Three threads - I deleted the 3rd...

[SQLSwerver]

He's been working as a freelance for 10 years. What makes you think he's a "noob"?

The fact that he feels so strongly about pimp incompetence/dishonesty that he made two separate threads about it in his first three posts.

Working "Freelance" for 10 years? Nahhhh. Maybe on eBay or whatever, maybe. Honestly, after a decade in this business, who the \\ck still rails against pimps?

I suspect, given his writing style and sense of affront, he's some East Euro who went to school and/or college during that first post-Communist decade, did a further decade in IT, now he's made his way to the UK and expected the agents here to be as tightly regulated as they are back in Mother Russia/Poland or wherever.

[Lastlonger]

As requested by YOU

Could you write that again in English?

Here is my moaning about Recruitment Agents/Agencies.

Why do you think they are useless?

I believe I and many of my contractor colleagues must/could find dealing with the recruitment agent is kind a fighting in the battle field of WW1 when soldiers didn’t even know what was the purpose of this WAR. I am not sure but there must be people out there hate dealing with them every time their contract comes to an end or when no extension offered.

This is because we will have no choice but to start talking to those idiots who says your Job Title is Designer not an Architect or you have done consultancy but title I am looking SME.

I am not singling out Recruitment Agencies only the small ones many of us experienced this with mainstream recruitment agencies, and they are as BAD as each other in the recruitment business.

However they know this and they know we need them to find our next contract. What does this gives them a right to treat people who are need a work but be so UN-HELPFUL and DIFFICULT people to deal with???

I hope this explains to you a little better than before even though as pathetic as you are I wouldn’t be surprise you will find few more grammatical errors, rather than looking at the point I am trying to make LOL. :

[Lastlonger]

Perhaps

Your choice of analogy is fighting in WW1 - perhaps agents don't take you seriously.

As you have quoted, "perhaps they don't take me seriously" do you think they do take anyone seriously, also would you actually say they do take you seriously.? If they do what do you do for them, and let us all know? besides I have my own list which agents are good and which are worst to work with. I have began that analysis in the last 2 years and I am determined not to work with those who are not worth working with "Unless if I am so desperate for work I might actually use them and work with them but this means I need to be so desperate" .

What they say What goes around come around. when I work for a company and be friend with people and tell them the ones who are bad apple not to bother working with them and most are taking credit for this type of info. Perhaps I told you too, never know who we are talking with in this small world...

[Lastlonger]

Thanks for this quota

Well in the battlefield you have to dehumanise the enemy, so just do that with agents. Then selectively rehumanise the ones that are OK.

I have began that analysis in the last 2 years and I am determined not to work with those who are not worth working with - Dehumanised them , "Unless if I am so desperate for work I might actually use them and work with them but that doesn't mean I will re-humanising them" , I am gladly saying that I have been doing my Re-Humanising Agent and the companies.

What they say What goes around come around. when I work for a company and be friend with people and tell them the ones who are bad apple not to bother working with them.

[I just need to test it]

Personally speaking far too much of my contracting life has resembled 1917.

[tractor]

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Somme can be a pain, but I wouldn't Ypres them all in together. That would be going over the top.

Somme are bad and somme are I Magin no worse 2

[tomtomagain]

Agents are commission based salesmen.

The client is the buyer.

You are the commodity product.

And that's business. If you don't like it. Get a permie job.

[SQLSwerver]

Well in the battlefield you have to dehumanise the enemy, so just do that with agents. Then selectively rehumanise the ones that are OK.

Wise, albeit creepy.