Tosspots

It’s not a common occurrence for me to be pissed off with an agency I’ve worked through. In fact, this is the first time it’s happened. Then again, this is also the first time I’ve worked for a tin-pot local agency, rather than a national one, so maybe that’s part of it.

As it is, I’ve now finished working for them, and I’m pleased about that. The last four months have been a bizarre journey, and while the work itself has been fine, the agency have been utter cunts.

I’ve had to chase them every month to get paid, and they’ve been utterly disorganised the entire way through. They’ve also contacted the workplace every month in order to get copies of paperwork that they’d already got, and just been an utter nightmare the entire way. In fact, knowing that the contract was ‘ending’ on Friday, they haven’t even been in touch with me all month. Not a word, nothing about another contract, or not having anything available at the moment, or anything at all.

So now I’ve finished with them. I’ve had an email from them telling me that while my technical skills are fine, my “personal conduct fell below the professional standards we expect as an agency on several occasions and we no longer wish to have you on our list of suppliers”. Now I have to say, that’s a first. In fact, it’s fucking bizarre – considering that the company I’m working for has extended the contract, and has now got me privately rather than through Clowns’R’Us, and that I’ve actually never not had a contract extended.

However, I have chased up the agency every inch of the way, and been a pain in the arse to them, because they’ve been so amazingly bad. I’ve had to be, or I’d still be waiting for my first paycheck, let alone my last one. So maybe that’s been where my personal conduct fell down – for calling a bunch of incompetents on their incompetency.

I just have to decide now whether to write a shitty email in response to it. It’s very tempting…