A staffing agency just royally screwed me, what should I do?
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December 10th, 2010
So I interviewed and got a job out of town. Its through a staffing agency, so I will lose my current benefits (medical, 401k, etc), but the pay rate would go from 18.30/hr to 25/hr, and it would move my career forward and get me out of my current city… So I took the job on the spot. Then I checked out some apartments in the new town and told friends/family… and this morning I told my boss and put in two weeks and gave him an official resignation letter.
Well then I get an e-mail from the staffing agency lady. Apparently she “misquoted” me on the 25/hr… and its actually supposed to be 16/hr. Needless to say, this is a big f*cking problem. I e-mailed her back and told her there is no way I can accept 16/hr, and that at BARE minimum I would need 20/hr, and even that would be hard to accept (I would need at least that to pay my bills). I further explained that to walk away from all my current benefits and move 3 hours to a new city, the pay rate definitely has to make up the difference. She e-mailed the actual companies HR department directly with the issue and will be in contact with me.
What would you suggest doing in this situation? I’m wondering if maybe she’s just dicking me around, saying “Oh its actually 16”.. so then she can offer me 22 or something and I’ll be excited about it. What would you do about this?
And furthermore, I JUST gave my boss notice I’m leaving. So now even if this job doesn’t pan out he knows I’m looking, but it puts him in the awkward position of knowing he needs to replace me but me still being there if he’d even keep me now.
Life finds yet another way to f*ck me…........ suggestions?
(NOTE: Mods, I made a previous post that is pretty much exactly this, but my title was too vague and it attracted few responses…. please delete that one if you feel the need to take either off)
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Wow, I really keep thinking of things to say here but I don’t wanna sound like captain hindsight…staffing agencies are bloody soul sucking sheisters, and apparantly are even being more horrible and abusive given the unemployment situation of the country….I say the next thing you get from them get a detailed fax with a signature…because vultures they are….
My appologies in advance to anyone who works at a staffing agency that may be offended by what I wrote…but its true
Not sure if you are aware but staffing agencies are puppy mills, they sublette workers out to companies so those companies don’t have to pay benefits and in addition skim off the hourly wage the company pays you (a staffing agency that finds someone a job for$ 9 an hour really finds$ 11 an hour job and skims$ 2 an hour off each worker for themselves) its deplorable and should be illegal….and its even more prevelant right now as people become more desperate for jobs in our economy, staffing agencies are making a killing, stepping on the working man all the way up….ok im done my rant
At this point, I would not trust anything this agency says to you. Can you contact the actual Human Resource dept. of the actual company and talk to them about what you were told and what you agreed to? I would get on this quickly and stop your resignation as soon as possible. If not today, then tomorrow.
Did you quit your current job without a written offer from the agency? If so, then it’s not ‘life’ screwing you, dude; you need to do things the right way – the write way. “If it isn’t written, it isn’t true.” If you didn’t have a signed offer on paper with all of the terms… then you didn’t really have ‘an offer’. You apparently had ‘notice of an offer’ or ‘a promise of an offer’ or some such. But the offer has to be in writing to be valid. And if it is, then you can take them to court to honor it; it’s a contract.
Otherwise, if you shot yourself in the foot here, then talk to your boss and withdraw your resignation. Assuming you get along well with him or her, there’s no reason for them to be upset about you taking a new job that you reasonably thought would pay you 30% more than your current position. Your boss would probably go for a deal like that, himself. So there should be no hard feelings over this.
Next time be sure that the offer is in writing and that all of your questions are answered before you quit the job you have.
@CyanoticWasp I consider me going to their office and filling out half of the paperwork, picking up drug test stuff, shaking hands and them telling me that the job is 25 an hour and should start the first week of January… pretty damn official. No offense but very often I find your answers to be offensive/attacking.
Well, if you “shook hands” on an offer (how am I supposed to know what’s in your head? was that included in anything you’ve written here?) then you have “an oral contract”. And it might be enforceable… if you can prove it.
A written contract can be easily proven, which is why we rely on them so much.
No offense, but I find a lot of your postings here to be juvenile. Are we square now?
@CyanoticWasp Nope not really. But thanks for the actual pertinent info in the last two posts.
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