In the past, I had been working for them, off and on, for the past 6-7 years. I mostly worked in a temp to hire position and I would get hired on by the employer for a few years each, and they did manage to get me in a permanent position, that went really well until the company had to downsize; fine, so of course, I immediately called them and they reassured me that they would always have work for me, which they always did.
They're lucky to have gotten one star from me. The only way they even got this star is that the system requires at least one star for a rating.
They then had me placed me in various positions, including one where it took literally ten times asking one Office Team employee (who is no longer there by the way), what the specific dollar amount was of the perm position would be once I was hired.
This is where everything on their part went south fast. So, once the salary was established, I went to work, worked hard, and got screwed, not only by the hiring employer, but Office Team. You see, this is the case, and there were many, where hard work doesn't get you any sort of reward, you just get squeezed all the way out of the picture; in this case both by the agency and the client. Then, each of them had the nerve to play the victim. Once that happened, it was war. I made absolutely certain that neither of them would get away without sending me some sort of a written apology; it may have been an empty one, but at least it was something.
After that, they really didn't have much for me. Gee, I wonder why? Maybe it was because I wasn't willing to be their doormat? Every time I'd call, (which by the way, the operator is probably the rudest human being on the planet, she should never have been hired for that position) and keep in mind that when I wasn't working, I called them once a day, everyday, and their reply was always "call back later, you never know, we might have something for you tomorrow", which of course I always did.
Finally, after all of this, a friend of mine said, "don't waste your time with such a poorly ran agency." Go to Apple One. They're far better and plus, it'll show Office Team how you really feel about the way they run their business. So, I went to Apple One, was placed in a job within a few days; a permanent one which, by the way, that paid enough for me to live in this current economic crisis and have been there for the past four years.
Office Team only cares about its clients and itself. Its candidates as well as their skills and talents are expendable. All they want is to get you into a position, any position, whether it works for you or not, so they can get their checks from the employers. I would never recommend Office Team to anyone for any position.
And as of now, it is to my understanding that they are now running on a skeleton crew and don't have any positions that pay more than minimum wage due to the economy. Good, what comes around goes around. A company finally got what was coming to them. read more
