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Contreras replied

9 January 2015, 10:04
Originally posted by psychocandy View Post

Ummmm.....

Assume they're all tossers and to be avoided. Better plan would be to list the good ones - would be much shorter.

Ummmm..... let's see.....

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...s-avoid-5.html (5 pages)

http://forums.contractoruk.com/busin...g-through.html (2 pages)

You're right!
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Contractoid replied

9 January 2015, 10:02
Originally posted by david1888 View Post

Hi all
Thought to start a thread on the dodgy agencies/agents that you encountered during your contracting careers and to try and make a list to everyone who we should doubt and even stay away from.
Try to attach story or example to the names ,this can show on a consistent pattern of an agency and help us all in the future.

Understand the emotional need to do this, really I do, but its just not practical or meaningful. Agencies are just a random collection of individuals, some of which you can build a working relationship with and an element of trust, the rest are just ego tripping toss bags. The industry likes to think its a professional regulated setup but the truth is its an employent option for gobtulipes that can't cut it in Industries that have proper standards.

I try to spot the rare gems that routinely behave with integrity, get you leads and interviews and more importantly conversions. The agency they happen to be working for is frankly irrelevant.
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psychocandy replied

9 January 2015, 09:20
Ummmm.....

Assume they're all tossers and to be avoided. Better plan would be to list the good ones - would be much shorter.
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cojak replied

9 January 2015, 06:25
Originally posted by david1888 View Post

Hi all
Thought to start a thread on the dodgy agencies/agents that you encountered during your contracting careers and to try and make a list to everyone who we should doubt and even stay away from.
Try to attach story or example to the names ,this can show on a consistent pattern of an agency and help us all in the future.

Good grief, not another one...
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EternalOptimist replied

9 January 2015, 01:00
Originally posted by david1888 View Post

Hi all
Thought to start a thread on the dodgy agencies/agents that you encountered during your contracting careers and to try and make a list to everyone who we should doubt and even stay away from.
Try to attach story or example to the names ,this can show on a consistent pattern of an agency and help us all in the future.

Far be it for me to call you a cretin. even though you are obviously a cretin.

I had a bad experience once with an agent called Ivor. Ivor Bollockoff

Of course, I knew he wasn't real. It was a nom de plume, or a nom de guerre

who fckng cares ??

same agency , a few years later, I got a job via T.Scrumptious

who cares ??

are you really suggesting a register of transients or made-up names ?

cretin
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stek replied

8 January 2015, 23:41
Originally posted by david1888 View Post

Hi all
Thought to start a thread on the dodgy agencies/agents that you encountered during your contracting careers and to try and make a list to everyone who we should doubt and even stay away from.
Try to attach story or example to the names ,this can show on a consistent pattern of an agency and help us all in the future.

I can't be bothered....
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david1888 replied

8 January 2015, 23:35
the 3 months became 18 after saying no but no

Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

Nice that you've come back after 17 months and 'liked' the answers to the 'offer to go perm' thread. Are they still waiting for an answer?

the 3 months became 18 after saying no but no
Hard to get makes the trick
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mudskipper replied

8 January 2015, 22:12
Nice that you've come back after 17 months and 'liked' the answers to the 'offer to go perm' thread. Are they still waiting for an answer?
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AtW replied

8 January 2015, 22:09
4 ..........
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DodgyAgent replied

8 January 2015, 22:06
Originally posted by FatLazyContractor View Post

Dodgy Agent
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FatLazyContractor replied

8 January 2015, 21:57
Dodgy Agent
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SueEllen replied

8 January 2015, 21:55
Oh dear.
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david1888 started a topic dodgy agencies/agents

8 January 2015, 21:49
dodgy agencies/agents

Hi all
Thought to start a thread on the dodgy agencies/agents that you encountered during your contracting careers and to try and make a list to everyone who we should doubt and even stay away from.
Try to attach story or example to the names ,this can show on a consistent pattern of an agency and help us all in the future.
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