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Previously on "A Letter to the contractor employment "Industry""
That only works if they only use one agent. As soon as there's any competition the agents would stop f***ing around and get someone in there before they miss out completely.
This agency had sole supplier rights, imposed by client management.
If asking for even a basic level of courtesy is being sensitive then we may as well all take our gloves off and deal with each other with total contempt and rudeness. Really everyone looses with this current culture that has got increasingly worse over the past few years.
Before we get all sanctimonious about this the systems works. If it did not it would change.
It works well enough overall. Of course it may not look like that from the perspective of some suppliers but they should move into another line of business or find a direct supply model. We exist to meet client needs but some folk seem to think it's the othe way round.
If asking for even a basic level of courtesy is being sensitive then we may as well all take our gloves off and deal with each other with total contempt and rudeness. Really everyone looses with this current culture that has got increasingly worse over the past few years.
Only those with contempt for the process get treated with utter contempt. There are good agents, poor agents, good contractors, poor contractors, good clients, poor clients, good managers yada yada yada.
Being sensitive and being a contractor don't go together. Ask Suity.
If asking for even a basic level of courtesy is being sensitive then we may as well all take our gloves off and deal with each other with total contempt and rudeness. Really everyone looses with this current culture that has got increasingly worse over the past few years.
... at the price that the agent told them they could get someone for?
Also, if there are 200 applicants for a contract, the client won't have the time to screen them all, and the agent won't have the knowledge.
Not to mention other factors. One I have seen for myself went like this: in 2009 I spent months on the bench. Eventually I got a contract in Paris. Once inside, I found from the client that they had been looking for months, but their PSL agent told them that there was no-one available. So they hold off presenting anyone remotely acceptable for months, then after client and contractors have stewed for a while, the client will pay a high rate and the contractor will accept a low one. Is that a "market" or is it a con?
I would have thought the agent would want to get someone in ASAP before someone else does.
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