Recently Ive been turning down a few offers of work from my agency.
Im doing some serious work on a house with my uncle for my parents. They will let me live there free(ish!!! to cover bills council tax and my gardening services) in return for doing the work. He can only help for a week or a few days at a time as he lives in the west country. So I have to turn down work when he’s up.
This weekend Im off to his to work on his new house as a labour swap so he can still work on ours. I would have considered coming back early monday/tuesday to work after hearing the regular guys at a job are on triple time (task and finish) but found out id be only on time and a half (hourly, normally six hour shift) and it doesnt seem worth it.
Im just wondering how tolerant a good agency would be of me before bumping me down their list. Feel free to tell me Im an idiot for turning down work, but I feel my bank hols are worth more than £75 when I can work towards my new house.
You have to do what you feel is right & best for you at the time & if you feel that you are worth more than that well that is up to you as that is best for you
you’ll slip down the list of blue eyed boys
its the way of things most wont take offence
but you’ll have to do the usual, ring them if they dont ring you routine
so you move back up the ladder
thats what they do with their clients
I’d have thought working for an agency is a two-way agreement. Agency has no work for you, no call from them. You have work, no call to the agency. I’m sure there’s nothing to concern yourself about or do you have to be or are you contracted to them only?
With agengies you arnt even as good as your last job …human traffican [zb] arnt worth a scrap of loyalty,so dont ever lose sleep over them cos they will crap on you at a drop of a hat
when i have been in recruitment all i ask for is some honesty if you cant work then fair enough to me that why when i am driving i work on agency so i can decide what days i want to work, the only time i get sick is when a driver takes say a weeks booking on then tosses it off for something better.
What are the ‘working across olympic’ deals with the big contractors so far then?
Does anyone want to be working anywhere near London when all this is going on?
Planning a holiday around then to get out of it?
Whatever the plans of most, you can’t run the tight ship necessary over the olympic period without doing it properly and right - and that just doesn’t mean flooding the market on the day with el cheapo drivers because they’re all you could get for the limited funds being offered.
‘Sunday pay on all olympic days’ don’t cut it with me, but you all might have a different opinion so let’s hear some of them!
The same applies across this weekend with regards to inner London work. I would hope that no one is doing it for normal pay that’s for sure! We’ve got a stiff end to keep up down here after all!
Arrangement I have with mine is May to September I’m not available unless they’re short of a driver in which case I’ll cover it if I can, at the moment I’m turning down 2 shifts out of 3.
On the other hand I accept that they needs to keep their full time drivers going so they get priority, even when I’m available full time from Oct-Feb. The arrangement suits both sides.
zeddman:
With agengies you arnt even as good as your last job …human traffican [zb]arnt worth a scrap of loyalty,so dont ever lose sleep over them cos they will crap on you at a drop of a hat
I must admit if a agencey get lippy I accept the shift and don’t bother to appear for it,serves the right for being tools and serves the client right for not taking on there own staff
zeddman:
With agengies you arnt even as good as your last job …human traffican [zb] arnt worth a scrap of loyalty,so dont ever lose sleep over them cos they will crap on you at a drop of a hat
+3
They don’t bat an eye when they drop you at the last minute, or tell you bollox whilst feeding the current flavour of the month all the work, sod 'em.
Make sure you get it in email/writing what the hourly rate is - else you might be offered whatever you want to hear, only to find it was actually £7ph after all.
“We offer £20ph on wed-fri bank holidays, or if you have no driving hours left and cannot take it”
If you do take it, normal terms and conditions for tuesdays apply in these hard times (for you!)
