Winseer:
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Grrrr!
Good post and very well put.
Just the one question - did I notice just a spot of cynicism once or twice? 
Staff line in kettering, two tarts in there lie continually about rates hours and shifts, When I rang to say my wages were wrong they get all flirty and say you must have miss herd me.
I said ill be down there and and smack you in the mouth if you don’t sort it out. I got the rate i agreed but it shouldnt come to that to be paid properly.
OnlyAlan:
Winseer:
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Grrrr!
Good post and very well put.
Just the one question - did I notice just a spot of cynicism once or twice?
I used to procrastinate all the time, but after getting kicked out of Grammar School I decided to bugger about instead.
darren1000:
Staff line in kettering, two tarts in there lie continually about rates hours and shifts, When I rang to say my wages were wrong they get all flirty and say you must have miss herd me.
I said ill be down there and and smack you in the mouth if you don’t sort it out. I got the rate i agreed but it shouldnt come to that to be paid properly.
get much since then 
commonrail:
darren1000:
Staff line in kettering, two tarts in there lie continually about rates hours and shifts, When I rang to say my wages were wrong they get all flirty and say you must have miss herd me.
I said ill be down there and and smack you in the mouth if you don’t sort it out. I got the rate i agreed but it shouldnt come to that to be paid properly.get much since then
I moved agency and got a temp to perm, staff line ring me every bank holiday offering me work but I always refuse.
worked out well in the end then
darren1000:
Staff line in kettering, two tarts in there lie continually about rates hours and shifts, When I rang to say my wages were wrong they get all flirty and say you must have miss herd me.
I said ill be down there and and smack you in the mouth if you don’t sort it out. I got the rate i agreed but it shouldnt come to that to be paid properly.
Oh yes, would that be the office with the ‘when shall we meet again’ “Witches Three”?
That’s Mrs A, Miss Demeanor, and Miss Take I assume!? 
Mrs A will give you a disease, whist Miss Demanor distracts you with her pert body, ending with Miss Take Karate-Chopping your wages in half with a JSA payment!
Winseer:
(6) “Can you do this as a favour? - We’ve got no one else able to cover it We’ve asked everyone else above you in pecking order, and they all said ‘No’!”(7) “We’ve got loads of multidrop handball in the city center!”
Grrrr!
^ Nuf said.
Carryfast:
We’ve got no one else able to cover it We’ve asked everyone else above you in pecking order, and they all said 'No
i see this as a chance to move up the pecking order
Join more agencies you can pick and choose then
When I first retired back in 2003, I worked agency for three years, only one week in four, to top up the pensions.
I worked for Driver Hire, and Swift, both in Newport, and had no problems with either of them, in any shape or form.
So yes, there were two good ones.
Used to work for all the big agencys who temp for everyone and the lies and shift cancelations were unreal then found a small one sittingbourne based who were good, never no problem with right amount of wages would always tell you what you were doing never had a shift cancelled then when i restarted a couple of years ago went to a new one as the old one had closed and its all back to lies and sulking by them.
franchised recruitment agencys seem to be the worst at fiddling their drivers
It’s a funny old game to be honest.
Having worked as a consultant i can tell you that its in the interest of the agency to find you work, if they don’t they don’t get paid. It’s a harsh balancing game for them, although that’s no consultation to the poor driver on the bottom of the food chain.
What tends to happen is they are offered work with one of their clients. The client claims over 7 days they will need and require 200 orders. Agency advertises such to ensure that they can cover the amount of work predicted. Drivers say they are flexible when 7/10 they are not, some don’t show when the orders do come in. Client then decides that they don’t need so many drivers as first predicted and therefore the work the agency they where promised is not so affluent as they first thought.
As for odd start times and last minute notice it does not take a genius to work out why that happens.
- TM/TP cannot find a driver to cover a bad shift start time. After asking all his drivers then decides to call in the agency
- Agency take order then attempt to fill it
- Agency start ringing down their list of drivers, starting with the one who always says yes first. Down to the dregs who are often ones who refuse because they wash their ■■■■■ at 4am or some other reason.
Its hard for the agencies just as hard as it is for the drivers to be honest. But they place themselves as the middle man, just as much as drivers place themselves at the service of the agency.
What Spacemonkey said, and of course there’s the other side of things;
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Drivers who take on an agency shift, then ring back half an hour later to say they can’t cover it; usually because another agency has offered them a better shift that’s either closer to home or an extra quid an hour.
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Drivers who do the above but simply don’t bother ringing in; these are the most common cause of that 4am phone call.
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Drivers whose navigation is so bad that they couldn’t guarantee to hit the floor if they fell out of bed; they assure you they’ll be there and of course they know where it is, then phone up when they’re an hour late to say they couldn’t find the place so they’ve gone home.
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Drivers who, despite being issued with uniform and PPE, turn up in shorts and sandals and cannot understand why the client has sent them home.
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Drivers who, depite being asked politely to turn up presentably clean, arrive at the client looking and smelling as though they’ve slept in a skip.
I’ve dealt with all of them, and worse; what none of them ever realise is that it isn’t just the agency staff who suffer, but by ■■■■■■■ off the client they’ve spoilt the job for the other agency drivers who have been in that firm giving it their best.
Spacemonkeypg:
It’s a funny old game to be honest.…As for odd start times and last minute notice it does not take a genius to work out why that happens.
- TM/TP cannot find a driver to cover a bad shift start time. After asking all his drivers then decides to call in the agency
- Agency take order then attempt to fill it
- Agency start ringing down their list of drivers, starting with the one who always says yes first. Down to the dregs who are often ones who refuse because they wash their ■■■■■ at 4am or some other reason.
Its hard for the agencies just as hard as it is for the drivers to be honest. But they place themselves as the middle man, just as much as drivers place themselves at the service of the agency.
If they always say yes, you woudn’t be getting to the second one on the list!
Desperation is more likely to make a driver a “yes” candidate than a “no” one. Trouble is, the “desperation” usually comes from having many points on the licence rather than low-confidence to tout yourself to the job market properly!
If someone phoned me at 4am theres a good chance I’ll be scratching my ■■■■■■■■ rather than cleaning my ■■■■■. Either way, I’m likely to be rather cross at someone intruding upon my sleep when I’m on my first day off in seven… If I happen to be at work that night, then you’ll REALLY be for it when my ex T&B TM wife picks the phone up and finds a knob on the other end who doesn’t know I never work earlies! 