Following the thread about owning up to a bump with a new employer, it got me thinking about other things you may want to ‘hide’.
For me I’d be very wary about fessing up to being an agency driver. I’ve always stretched the start and finish dates to hide the fact on application forms. But how do you career agency drivers do it? Could you say you’ve been to prison, or ill?
There is a massive stigma around agencies. My company and 3 others I’ve worked for simply won’t use them, due to the massive damage rate. Not sure I’d want to own up to working for one, seeing as a lot of agency drivers are unemployable in the eyes of a proper haulage company. Obviously the bean counters at plc’s (plastic logistics companies) don’t see further than columns and numbers, as many of their drivers have come temp to perm from the agency.
When I stopped working for an agency (a life style choice), I arrived on a push bike, and pretended to fall off outside the gate, to explain my embarrassing limp. I nearly gave the game away when I started talking to the Bluetooth when answering a question at the interview, but managed to explain that by pretending to be a schizophrenic…
The fact they are career agency shows they have no ambition or self respect and a bit like those who smoke dope all day and sponge off the social they brag about the fact that they are unemployable. The sad thing is they see nothing wrong with being the lowest of the low and wear it like a badge of honour, therefore they wouldn’t try and hide it.
Even if they did try and creatively cover it walking in to the interview with a hi vis, earpiece and smelling like last week’s arsecrack would give the game away.
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I’ve done most of my driving as an agency driver and to be honest I’ve gained more experience doing it that way than I’d ever get as a permanent employee and to boot a lot of employers just let you get on with the job, maybe the Gump in me works, those bosses that try to throw their weight around are usually brought back to earth with a bump when they realise that I can walk into the next shift pretty quick, we don’t have to sit and say yes sir, no sir and worry bout disciplinary situations and can leave with our dignity and self respect instead of scurrying away and asking how high the TM wants us to jump…Just one of the many perks
Adonis.:
The fact they are career agency shows they have no ambition or self respect and a bit like those who smoke dope all day and sponge off the social they brag about the fact that they are unemployable. The sad thing is they see nothing wrong with being the lowest of the low and wear it like a badge of honour, therefore they wouldn’t try and hide it.
Even if they did try and creatively cover it walking in to the interview with a hi vis, earpiece and smelling like last week’s arsecrack would give the game away.
If you have been with one agency for some time then you have a verifiable record, but if you have flit around between half a dozen then it’s a different matter. Not quite so bad as admitting that you have deluded yourself into believing that your one-man limited company, with a labour rate of £1 hr more than the company is offering you as PAYE, is anything more than a tax dodge
