Today I had a look on the Jobcentre website to see if there was anything about. I typed Manchester in as my location, gave a radius of 20 miles as a distance I’d be willing to travel and asked for all the jobs which have been advertised today.
10 pages of vacancies came up! A total of 240 jobs! I was delighted!
After looking through them I discovered that 10 of those jobs were advertised by employers, the rest were agencies pretending that they had jobs.
As I had nowt else to do, I have made a list of the lying [zb]and the number of jobs they claim to have available. At the end I will award my Greatest Liar of the Week Award to the agency which makes the most outlandish claim-
Paths 1
Logical 14
Heads 3
LGV Drivers 12
Strike 27
Ultima 10
Drivers4Drivers 7
GI Group 1
Transline 1
Vital People 4
Staff Uk 2
Contact Industrial 1
TRG 4
Temps 3
Concept 1
Pertemps 1
Darren Bell 1
Meridian 1
D+D 11
Proactive 6
Site Contract Personnel 1
Career Makers 3
Crosby and Perrin 3
Search 2
Blacks 10
Polaris 5
FMDJ 2
Abilas 85
The rest are advertised by ‘Company Confidential’.
All of the above are regular contributors to the website and most of them re-use adverts which are months if not years old. They are that blase about it that they often re-use adverts with closing dates from the previous year! The very worse of the lot though are Abilas…extraordinary!
If anyone is still reading this then I urge you to have a look at the Jobcentre website and click on any of the adverts from this bunch of lying charlatans to see for yourselves. It is a disgrace that agencies are allowed to use a government website to advertise their business like this. There is not a single real job on there (other than the ten mentioned). Does any other industry suffer at the hands of agencies as much as the transport industry?
Is there any way that an individual can make a formal complaint about such blatant racketeering? If there is I am going to find it and see what I can do about the lowlife parasites.
I’m just astounded by the overwhelming number of none-jobs on there and more so, by the fact that they are allowed to use a government website to fill their books up and to do so in such a blatant way.
Coogy:
I’m just astounded by the overwhelming number of none-jobs on there and more so, by the fact that they are allowed to use a government website to fill their books up and to do so in such a blatant way.
The Government goes along with it because it allows them to claim that there are numerous vacancies available but the unemployed are too work-shy to take them.
I’ve just looked on their website and even though they do have agencies on there, there seems to be more real jobs on there than the Jobcentre site.
Re indeed, what is a “sponsored” job? Do they pay them to be top of your search list? Around here, Hacklings have recently been “the sponsor”. I was tempted to call them but being “Gloucestershire wages” I doubt the rate is very good.
Agencies, in my humble opinion, are largely nothing more than a ragged collective of amoral, opportunistic and unwanted despoilers of all things honourable. They have initiated a sea-change in many employment markets which has had a severely negative effect on decent, working men and women in this country. They are a viral infection which is virtually impossible to eradicate at the present time, so it is hardly surprising then that they have found their ideal collaborators within the Government. The description fits both sets of lying parasites. What other jobs could these slimy, shallow jerk-offs possibly do? They could not survive in any other environment. There must surely be a high probability that a lot of their rampant, misleading and plain dishonest activities are arguably illegal, or at best, borderline legal. Greater empires than theirs have crumbled into dust, and one fine day, theyll reap what theyve sewn!
I would say that agencies are a result of probably too many employment rights. You can’t alter the cyclical or short term nature of demand so if it’s impossible to take people on and let them go when demand subsides easily you end up with something like agencies with their phoney self-employed filling the void.
The odd thing is that a lot of places probably had a few people they could call on who’d come and do a bit of emergency work cash-in-hand. Cash-in-hand work is cracked down on and then all you’ve ended up with is agencies and their dodgy tax schemes becoming the norm. The irony is the govenrment would probably have been better off financially turning a blind eye to the odd bit of cash-in-hand.
Own Account Driver:
. The irony is the govenrment would probably have been better off financially turning a blind eye to the odd bit of cash-in-hand.
Amen to that. The first thing people do with cash in hand is spend it! They spend it in the pub, in local eateries, they buy stuff from local shops. So yes the Govt get it back that way.
I love agencies. It allows me to pick and choose where and when I work. Agency asks me what my availability is the following week, I let them know, they text me with whats on. If I want a bit of cash I’ll do a 5 day week. If I can’t be arsed I’ll do a few days or none at all. How many jobs can you do that at?
because these jobs are sill on a job site, after 3 months they are classed as long term unfilled vacancy s, so the government can use the figures to say how good we are getting on, most of us know how good these agencys are, that are crap , Now those that are bored , have a look at how many hgv driving jobs are advertised in polish on indeed, , working for a uk supermarket via a agency
Well having read through all the above posts the only one with a good understanding of agencies is Conner.
I used to think agencies were the scum of the earth. But these days especially as there’s so many of them they’re there to be abused. I walked out of full time job to go agency 3 yrs ago and never looked back.
If you want to make good money with freedom to pick and choose, go agency. If you want a normal wage and kid yourself you have security carry on in your so called proper job.
But keep this info to yourself we don’t want everyone doing it!
Isn’t it worth finding out where one actually wants to work, and then establishing which agency is the main supplier of bods for that particular yard?
Turning up at some “we supply anyone” agency and then looking for work at a small yard you really like - isn’t very smart if you think about it.
Agencies that are “driver specialists” are better than “anyone supplied” like warehouse, secretarial, etc. staff. They are only half-hearted about their driver wing of the business essentially.
Agencies who offer you work at a yard you KNOW is mainly supplied by someone else - you might as well not bother. They are clearly subbing to another firm, so you might as well cut out the middleman, and go straight to the main supplier of drivers agency…
It occurs to me that a lot of heartache over being bullcrapped by agencies could be avoided if us, the punters, actually took some trouble working out which one would suit them best from their normal mode of operation. If you ask for crap, you’ll get it in abundance. If you ask for the moon, you’ll get lied to just to get you on the books. Best tell them nowt, and ask THEM what they have for YOU.
Conor:
I love agencies. It allows me to pick and choose where and when I work. Agency asks me what my availability is the following week, I let them know, they text me with whats on. If I want a bit of cash I’ll do a 5 day week. If I can’t be arsed I’ll do a few days or none at all. How many jobs can you do that at?
This is all so true, worked last 8 years on agency no more problems than working direct for a company but always free to say no.
I can only speak for agencies in this area, but I truly get fed up of reading all the fictitious ‘vacancies’ they flood the jobcentre site with usually on a daily basis, exactly the same jobs week in week out which then get regurgitated on CV Library and on Indeed a couple of days later. Steel, industrial deliveries, tipper and tanker jobs that always fail to materialise to be rapidly replaced with ‘golden opportunities’ or ‘prestige blue chip openings’ which inevitably are the crud shop deliveries or home deliveries many drivers won’t touch with a bargepole.
Everywhere I look now I see ‘hgv drivers wanted’. Proper signs on roundabouts, paper ones stick to keep left bollards and traffic light posts, pvc banners on fences and even on the back of a bus this week?? Talk about the goose that lays the golden egg.
