Oy... Where do I begin? Let me say I've never worked with a shadier agency than Aerotek. In the last two assignments I've completed through them, I was told the positions were "contract to hire" when the hiring managers at both client companies said otherwise. At my last assignment, I kept my options open and continued looking for a permanent direct hire position. My recruiter, Emily appeared to be somehow monitoring my online activity and saw in a "newsfeed" I was applying for jobs while still on my temp assignment. I applied on my time on my own computer in my house, so this is a wanton invasion of my privacy. Emily calls me in the middle of work to berate me for doing so. I explain to her that I'm keeping my options open until I am permanently employed, whether at the client company or otherwise. As long as there was "no guarantee" I was to keep looking. Emily takes this personally and proceeds to berate me about my "negative attitude". So in the world of Aerotek, the desire to survive is a negative attitude, if it doesn't favor Aerotek. Excuse me, Emily, but I've been in my field since you were probably in elementary school, so don't get high and mighty with me. She lectures me on professional attitude, yet she has a spaz attack on the phone. Not my idea of professional behavior. The snooping is what angers me most, and is most likely illegal. read more