This is what happens when you mandate that people buy something from a private, for-profit company. They take the absolute mickey
(call me woke or whatever)
LaSER CheeseGate 
Pointless team meetings when you all spend the majority of the meeting complaining youāre busyā¦
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At least he didnāt put what he thought his password was within the email reply 
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Yeah been there 
I went for a Job, 2 telephone interviews then another 2 in person interviews. Then they contacted my employer for references even though I was still working thereš”
I called them after another month when I was told by my then employer that I was going to be let go in the up coming redundanciesā¦
Oh sorry we with drew that job itās no longer going to exist.
I spoke to someone later who works for them in another dept. And apparently they do this from time to time to see who is out there and maybe looking, if itās someone who has a lot of pluses they will create a job for them
Ouchā¦
I had one application, first interview fine. Made it to last 3.
Called back (by phone) for 2nd interview
Turned up, building empty save for security bloke. He said theyād moved 2 weeks before.
Tried to call them, was told everyone in a meeting (perhaps waiting for me!)
I had another where the interviews were all separate, on different days: HR, line manager, their boss (director) Had to pass all 3. 3rd interview, sat for 2 hours with increasingly agitated HR bod who eventually tried to call the hiring manager / director. Turns out they were abroad on business and had completely forgotten.
Both firms turned into decent clients for a good few years tho.
Iāve clearly missed somethingā¦
(No surprises there )
Thatās not unusual. We did something similar to avoid agency finder fees. Weād run interviews, not employ anyone, leave it a couple of weeks, invite the person we liked the most back for a chat and take them on. Saving us money.
So youād get someone else to do the work finding the candidates, then screw them out of the money they were owed by waiting a few weeks and re-interviewing the candidate. Those actions were almost certainly still a breach of your contract with the agency if they had found out. Why am I not surprised that you are proud of that behaviour?
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No idea about the contract the firm had, we acted under instruction, no more no less. Any way I think itās called business, which isnāt always pleasant. The agency would send all and sundry, the vast majority across all areas were completely unsuitable, looked alright on paper but the reality very different, which our personnel dept moaned about constantly. We once spent 3 days interviewing 9 potentials, non of whom were up to the job and this sort of thing was repeated across the business.
The firm went back to advertising properly which was better, targeted so far less applicants and more like who we were looking for. I have to admit when we were told about the āfinders feeā, it seemed a bit cheeky.
I think itās called business which isnāt always pleasant.
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Fair go, but money for nothing however you look at it.
Staff
Building
IT
Heating
Lighting
I can go on. These people arenāt doing it for charity.
You will also find that the reason you are getting rubbish people through is you are not using the agency properly and building a relationship where they understand your needs.
We have to pay upwards of 2k to take a driver on from an agency, we pay it because in the long run they send us the best drivers they have.
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Also, why would the agency give their best effort for a client that screws them around and seemingly never hires?
I was going to make a comment about the agency possibly needing to do better to understand those needs, but a combination of not portraying what you want well enough and then not following through - why should they? Quality probably diminished over time as they clearly could find suitable candidates but got screwed over each time, so put less effort in next go round.
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Perhaps the agency got wind that your company was screwing them out of agency fees, but couldnāt prove it. So decided to waste days of your time with duff candidates instead?
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Given that at any one time they had at least 80 temps on the site, in various jobs, I doubt it. While I was there I was the budget holder for 29 of them value just over Ā£160K in 2016, when we had to let them go due to organisational changes.
The childminder having to isolate until Wednesday. Blue to decide whether I need to take annual leave or unpaid time off tomorrow.
Couldnāt you develop a persistent cough?