office team is horrible

Displaced Legal Professional in Denver, Colorado said: My recollection may be wrong, Unemployed, but I recall that being a Kelly Girl was a big deal. That is was prestigious to be a Kelly Girl, that Kelly Services were the Cadillac of temp services, etc.

I think the connotation of the kelly girl with "prestige" existed in the 50s-60s, when women were largely at home making babies and being a kelly girl was associated with being the new, liberated "working woman." Schools like Gibbs Secretarial turned out Kelly Girls left and right. My grandmother was the definition of a Kelly Girl, if not the actual thing; because as a debutante living in Georgetown, DC, the expectation and the norm was that women got married and lived to throw lavish parties once a month! But my grandmother had professional training and worked for much of her married life.

I'm shocked at how LITTLE most administrative jobs are paying these days.

In 1986, I was earning $9/hr. as a temp secretary. They're not paying much more (if at all) than that today!

And candidates have to have a much higher computer and multitasking skill level!

Actually, although the cost of living has risen in the last 20 years, the pay for any job that is of a administrative nature is lower in relation. Just a few years ago, the dept. of labor listed entry-level administrative jobs from low-to-median at between $6.00 and $20.00 per hour. Worse, where I live in NH, and while the minimum wage of most states has risen, the minimum hrly wage here is still sitting smack at the lowest end of Fed guidelines ($5.85). That's why so many companies have come here to set up the administrative side of their businesses, but also why NH's unemployment coverage stinks. Companies lay off/close down when manuf. is hit by economic slides. The result is a joke. People now know they only need to work for a certain number of weeks before they can go back on unemployment. So they work it so they can stay home and let the state continue subsidizing their living expenses. It all tracks easily back to temp agencies and that lack of loyalty I mentioned in one of my earlier posts.

No, actually. I listen to NPR most days, but just not yesterday, so hadn't heard this broadcast. Thanks for sharing.

I know about Gibbs because one of my father's ex-wives graduated from the school in the late 60s.

I was a Kelly girl and graduated from a private secretrial school. Those were the days!! You held your head high and was proud to work for a temp agency. We would dress up to the "hilt" with nylong with the seams in the back, high heels, hats even and well gloves were tucked into you little purse and you'd snap it shut with the glvoes hanging out on one side. You were in fashion that way lol.Ahhhh those were the days!! Kelly was THE company back then. Don't think we have THE company aroun any more, most are bogus temp places and only want to get the numbers in for the month. I recall Gibbs but don't remember from where. Any in NY?

Opps make a typo ! Should be nylons not nylongs Is Ryan looking??

Unemployed Property Manager in West Palm Beach, Florida said: I was a Kelly girl and graduated from a private secretrial school. Those were the days!! You held your head high and was proud to work for a temp agency. We would dress up to the "hilt" with nylong with the seams in the back, high heels, hats even and well gloves were tucked into you little purse and you'd snap it shut with the glvoes hanging out on one side. You were in fashion that way lol.Ahhhh those were the days!! Kelly was THE company back then. Don't think we have THE company aroun any more, most are bogus temp places and only want to get the numbers in for the month. I recall Gibbs but don't remember from where. Any in NY?

Gibbs: They were in Boston for a while before integrating with a vocational/trade "school".
You're experience makes me think of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's; just in terms of dress and pride in attention to detail. Well, my age doesn't permit me a "real" recollection of that era, but I think of it as a mode, a cultural art form long gone from this "brave new world" (apologies to Aldous for the link with this forum). Our world has more in common with a caste society now; all either exhorbitantly over-paid techno-weenies, Wal-Mart soccer moms, or out of work administrative temps. Sad.
Is it any coincidence that the breakdown of a civilization coincides with the demise of an appreciation, understanding, and education in the high arts?
I think I'm a little jaded at this point.

Sulynn in New Hampshire said: Gibbs: They were in Boston for a while before integrating with a vocational/trade "school".
You're experience makes me think of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's; just in terms of dress and pride in attention to detail. Well, my age doesn't permit me a "real" recollection of that era, but I think of it as a mode, a cultural art form long gone from this "brave new world" (apologies to Aldous for the link with this forum). Our world has more in common with a caste society now; all either exhorbitantly over-paid techno-weenies, Wal-Mart soccer moms, or out of work administrative temps. Sad.
Is it any coincidence that the breakdown of a civilization coincides with the demise of an appreciation, understanding, and education in the high arts?
I think I'm a little jaded at this point.

As long as we're calling out our own typos, I made one, too: "You're experience" should read: "Your experience."
And Property Manager: Ryan plunking on you for a small typo is like, like, well... I don't know what- but it's just so wrong.

To be quite honest with all of you, and this may sound extremely harsh, but I'm not worried in the slightest bit about what you think about me. YES. I AM a receptionist. YES. I do have a sort of OCD about spelling. HOWEVER, I am NOT the one on here saying I'm OVER-qualified to work for a temp agency.

Maybe if you spent your time looking for a real job instead of worrying about me or what I think or trying to make me look like an idiot or posting on an "OfficeTeam is horrible" forum, you wouldn't be "Unemployed in Your Hometown".

nomore officeteam in Jacksonville, Florida said: Their staff here in jacksonville sux! They never return calls when you have situations at the job they gave you. I'm glad I'm done with them

Their staff in Cleveland OH 'sux' too!!!!!

Ack! And the formerly dead speak! *cue ghosty noises.* Ryan dear, I really appreciate your comments, mostly for their unintended humor and the little chuckle they give me. You're so darn innocent in the ways of the world! It's refreshing; but oh so funny as heck, too. Yet, alas and alack, I can't commiserate now, for I've got to START "looking for a REAL job."

Again, thank you, Ryan, for your sage advice. We ALL should be ashamed of ourselves for not having taken advantage of the wisdom of Mr. Fitzpatrick's years and the warped and parochial viewpoint those years have thus far afforded him. (Ryan, feel free to chide me over any typos or dangling particples you find, herein). We all now how much of a turn on the hopelessly pedantic can be, yessireee!

Ryan Fitzpatrick in Happy said: To be quite honest with all of you,...Unemployed in Your Hometown".

Okay, I do feel a little badly about my last post, directed at Ryan. And, as much as I HATE to admit it, I do have to give him "props" as some say, for coming in here to what must seem like an upturned barrel of agitated scorpions, aching to bite. I think his original intent was to offer advice, and while that message got a litle sidetracked in the subsequent biting frenzy and uninvited spelling lessons, I can appreciate what he attempted to do.

I think it's refreshing to see a younger person (regardless of his/her occupation or status) coming to the defense of his employer. For that matter, it's nice to see the younger generations coming to the defense of anything that doesn't involve an iPod or video game. If I were RHI management, I would want to know about this person. The problem is, Mr. Fitzpatrick will probably NOT get the notice he deserves, because big corporations floss their teeth with people like him everyday. I just hope he keeps a resume updated; for the day when RHI deems him a superfluous resource, and sends him to the unemployment line with nary a care for how he came to its defense on these big, bad boards.

That said, I remain stodgy and stalwart on all I have said about temp agency/recruiter evils, and the harm they do by whacking our already KO'd economy over the head. Economies thrive on security; agencies like RHI ultimately create more insecurity. Consumer confidence flops, the Fed goes all flip-floppy on interest rates, housing starts tank, and Santa flies right past my house again, laughing his jolly-old ass off. I just can't take another year of coal in my stocking, people. I'm a woman. I need diamonds and other glittery stuff; and maybe a puppy.

Displaced Legal Professional in Denver, Colorado said: Sulynn in New Hampshire: "I do feel a little badly about my last post, directed at Ryan...."

In any event, Mr. Half-Receptionist, you are playing a tough room. If you want to swim in this ocean, expect the sharks to bite you.

Valid points, Displaced. And admit to not bothering to read every one of Mr. Fitzpatrick's posts; but I got the gist and so why bother? I'd find it too easy to get mired and insulted, begin textually shouting all sorts of innappropriate things at him that I know I'd regret later. I find it a waste of my time to argue with his brand of illogic and generalization. Do I care what he thinks? No. But I'd rather admonish with a little schtick and hope he gets it. Call me the Great Admonisher Behind the Curtain.
You're also right in your remark that he's not engendered anyone to RHI, but 90 percent of the posters in here weren't exactly "engendered" in the first place; it's why we're here! Ok, as long as RHI and it's affiliations choose not to hear the bleets and screeches of people who post in this and other forums (and those who file BBB complaints, and Dept. of Labor claims, like I did, against the company) it's on its way out of business. Our complaints are actually clarion calls to action; that RHI improve and conduct itself fairly, or prepare for even greater troubles ahead. That's the point Ryan and those like him should be getting out of this forum.

Ryan, I was going to say something nasty but changed my mine. YOU are not worth it!

Wait,Can I call RHI about Ryan? Probably a madeup name but they can trace his IP addy. He is representing a company that already has a bad rep and he is making it worse. RHI would love to know about this I'm sure!! INDEED has a "REPORT" area around there someplace, right?

Unemployed Property Manager in West Palm Beach, Florida said: Wait,Can I call RHI about Ryan? Probably a madeup name but they can trace his IP addy. He is representing a company that already has a bad rep and he is making it worse. RHI would love to know about this I'm sure!! INDEED has a "REPORT" area around there someplace, right?

Huh??? Oh come on now. You're inviting all kinds of silly into a negative situation. Indeed won't give up IP addresses without cause. Mr. Fitzpatrick stating his opinions certainly don't rise to that level.

On another note, I found out that my state's employment office is funding a relatively new program where it supplies its candidates with paid training, and personal apptitude career assessments. Part of my background includes work in website and graphics development; that's where I'm looking for work, but I need training on the new software that's come on scene since I was laid off. Under the program, if I can show that I'm being turned down for jobs because my software skills in these areas are lacking, I can get paid training in the specific software, which will make me a much more marketable candidate. If you haven't already, then you all may want to check with the employment offices in your respective states, to see if they have a similar offering.

Huh??? Oh come on now. You're inviting all kinds of silly into a negative situation. Indeed won't give up IP addresses without cause. Mr. Fitzpatrick stating his opinions certainly don't rise to that level.

Sulynn, are YOU on the same rung of the ladder with Ryan? I mearly stated MY opinion and I'm challenged by you. SILLY? maybe to you but not to me. I did read his posts. So with that said SULYNN
have a nice day and I will not longer be a part of the debate. YOU SULYNN Can take a flying leap and take Ryan with you!! Displaced sorry this is not a reflection on you. I've always enjoyed your posts and they were never to the level of Sulynn and Ryan. Sulynn I never gave you any negative feedback nor have I ever commented on any of your posts but you found it fitting to do that to me.

Unemployed Property Manager in West Palm Beach, Florida said: Huh??? Oh come on now. You're inviting all kinds of silly into a negative situation. Indeed won't give up IP addresses without cause. Mr. Fitzpatrick stating his opinions certainly don't rise to that level.

Sulynn, are YOU on the same rung of the ladder with Ryan? I mearly stated MY opinion and I'm challenged by you. SILLY? maybe to you but not to me. I did read his posts. So with that said SULYNN
have a nice day and I will not longer be a part of the debate. YOU SULYNN Can take a flying leap and take Ryan with you!! Displaced sorry this is not a reflection on you. I've always enjoyed your posts and they were never to the level of Sulynn and Ryan. Sulynn I never gave you any negative feedback nor have I ever commented on any of your posts but you found it fitting to do that to me.

Nope. I'm not on any rung with anyone, and I don't take anyone's side. I'm sorry if there's a miscommunication/misunderstanding somewhere-that can happen in this type of forum (I wish there were emoticon graphics to help in that regard). :) :> ?*&(@^! Oh well, I guess it is what it is. Peace.

Ryan Fitzpatrick in West Haven, Connecticut said: They are NOT allowed to discriminate. We are not allowed to take job orders that ask for a secific "type" or anything. As a matter of fact, staffing managers are not allowed to know your age or background or anything. You are strictly graded on how you present yourself. The only people who ever see your date of birth are the admin.

[2 points from parts of Sulynn's post]:

This is patently UNTRUE.

You live in a dream world if you think that agencies don't discriminate.

My response:

I have to agree with Sulynn. Besides, just because workplace discrimination is NOT ALLOWED, it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen. There are plenty of things in this world that are deemed ILLEGAL, but they still happen.

I know that I was discriminated against by an agency called Monarch Staffing, LLC. and their client...a client which you would think would know better. The client was a local county government organization that deals with the home health care needs of the elderly.

The owner at the temp agency was too concerned that I would sue her client over my health issue, in terms of workplace injuries. But this didn't even occur on the job. The agency owner didn't even know the difference between workmens' comp and being discriminated out of a job based on health. She does not have any business running a temp agency or anything else. She cared too much about the client end. After all, they pay her for the temps she places. Temp agencies don't care how they treat temps...even when it is blatant discrimination. I was told to my face that I had lost my job solely due to health reasons...even after my doctor gave me written permission to return to my job. I gave the document to the owner, where it was immediately dismissed, as if she had a medical license to do basically diagnose me as "too unhealthy to work."

Am I getting justice for this? No. I went to the EEOC...that's another post.

It's quite apparent that one Ryan Fitpatrick really needs to take his own advice and actually work his little job as an irreplaceable receptionist (if that's the truth) instead of constantly bereating us little people here on this board for simply exercising our human right to free speech regarding Office Team.

Sorry to report to you, Ryan, that we all have the right to say what we want about Office Team (or the scam temp employment industry in general) whether you like that or not.

What place keeps you employed that you're constantly on the computer belittling people who have a serious problem with (non-existent) jobs being dangled in front of their faces for days, weeks, possibly even months, making that person lose money as they wait for these jobs that don't exist to materialize?

I'm seriously beginning to doubt everything Ryan has put on this board regarding who he is and what his job is. There is no way on earth a lowly receptionist job is "secure" and I am personally beginning to think he's a Robert Half International exec (or a company gopher trying to score brownie points) trying to intimiate people into not sharing their Office Team horror stories.

Whatever the case: Don't let this jerk keep you from sharing and discussing your Office Team experiences here.

Anybody who hasn't (yet) been a victim of Office Team's unscrupulous hiring practices can take a casual glance at these pages and see there's a problem - and it's not with the *many* people who have taken hours out of their lives (myself included) to do everything Office Team/RCI requested of us - only to be left in the dust with no job and being ignored and given nasty attitudes by O.T. reps. This is happening at O.T. offices around the country and if the company can't produce jobs for people, then it's way past due to close the doors of this obvious scam.

I'm sure there are RHI and Office Team employees posting stuff for Public Relations purposes (damage control).

Maybe it's time they learned "what's goes around; comes around!"

Do not RELY or WAIT for any temp agency to find you a job. You're better off looking yourself. And if you find something, do NOT tell them the company name. They will contact them and try to get a new client.

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From a former RHI'er...

For those of you that have decided that you hate the recruiters there, PLEASE take into consideration just how bad we had it there. I can't imagine worse working conditions in this day and age. Here's a short list of awful things that we put up with on a daily basis

(1) Monday morning recaps, constituting various threats on our employment, accusations that we weren't doing everything we could and thinly veiled criticism of our personal lives. These got worse as the market started to turn. People were starting and quitting within weeks based on these alone.

(2)No lunch breaks when on "desk" Put simply...desk is the part of the "rotation" there where you are glued to your desk with no expectation of getting up bc you are filling these awful jobs with candidates who are either not interested, not qualified or not appreciative of the jobs you call them with. Worst of all...managers expected you to either not take a break or eat lunch at your desk in a 20minute period. Lunch was frowned upon altogether there.

(3) "Motivational" emails on a regular basis that we weren't doing enough on the phones. Constant harrassment picking on individuals and just making us more miserable than we already were. This was a CONSTANT. The equivalent of a dude cracking a whip on a slaveboat in spite of the fact that everyone there is on against their will and beyond miserable from the word "go."

(4) Long work days. 7:30-7 was common at our office. And this for pay between $35-$45k in OfficeTeam. They lied so often about how much more we could make there.

(5) Managers are beyond corrupt there, and egotistical beyond belief. One manager I had drank the kool-aid early and was actually a very, very sweet girl but they caught her right out of college and she didn't know any other way. Everyone above her pushes the hell out of her and makes her cry on a daily basis. Her direct manager is a filthy human being and was a huge cause of t.o.

I can't say enough about just how bad three managers there were in particular but I have to imagine they're already miserable people so...what can I do?

(6) Poor treatment of candidates. I have so many horror stories of us being told to fire candidates for being ill, having a death in the family or various things beyond their control. Just miserable things ordered by miserable people.

(7) Candidates themselves were so unreliable it made me sick. Some of you on here are just complete trash. Many of you are not but the ones who are made my job even worse than it already was. I did everything in my power to give a good, realistic view of my jobs and discuss the job with the candidate and help them to make a decision. I went out of my way to help these people and many of them would just no show no call on me for jobs I worked HARD to get. Awful. I can't blame people for not being interested but it's unacceptable to screw me over after the time I took to find, describe and assist with the job.

(8) Constant back-biting, back-stabbing and gossip. I had a manager that would say the most unprofessional things about our fellow employees there. She would talk about their personal lives and go out of her way to escalate spiraling situations for these people with negative comments, often public. She attempted to do it to me on a couple occassions when we were out in a group setting. I deflected it well but lost even more respect for her than I had at that point.

(9) On the topic of respect...they show none to their internal employees. You don't have any idea what disrespect is until you've seen the internal emails they send, or hear the comments the managers make behind closed doors about their employees. They treat people like children. I am young and was fresh out of college but I felt particularly bad for those who had experience and had been around the block. Can you imagine having YEARS of sales experience and being urged to "buy in" or do more by a person...

(cont.) half your age? A person who believes they are advancing their career for the "raises, and trips and stock options" they're supposed to throw at them? Empty lies, all of them. Managers get turned against their employees. Such a toxic place.

(10) And due to all of this B.s. listed above was the biggest joke of all...the turnover. It was unbelievable. In a little over a year, in an office which was supposed to contain between 20-30 people in the sales force, I saw a total of 28 people turnover. 28!!!! Unbelievable. Almost all of them quit. The two firings that come to mind were completely political and due to the whims of the tyrant working above me.

The code on the door changed constantly, CONSTANTLY and we used to have these asinine meeting discussing that these people just "werent cut out for RHI" or "werent really buying in" "didnt believe in the model" and various other nonsense.

I have never heard of people taking less responsibility for their actions. This may have been the biggest problem with management there. That they failed to own the toxicity of the work environment and take responsibility for the fact that people couldn't tolerate the nonsense.

So, all in all...from a guy who did a helluva lot of work there and left on good terms for a much better gig...I will forever be bitter toward that place for the lack of respect it showed myself and many of my friends. It's a place I would not reccommend working at or for. Stay away from it, and be patient until you find something better. Unless you are planning on using RHI to launch you into another industry and you are going to take advantage of them...stay away.

Thank you for sharing you side of the story.

Displaced :-)

aeneas in Libertyville, Illinois said: From a former RHI'er...

(2)...filling these awful jobs with candidates who are either not interested, not qualified or not appreciative of the jobs you call them with.

(4) Long work days. 7:30-7 was common at our office. And this for pay between $35-$45k in OfficeTeam. They lied so often about how much more we could make there.

It is interesting to here your side. But here is what I have a problem with. If we aren't interested, it's because the job doesn't match our skills. I can't tell you how many times I have gone to interviews at temp agencies and tell them what I am looking for and what I'm not. What happens? The recruiter calls me to ask if I'd be interested in a job that falls under what I clearly said I didn't want. So of course, I don't appreciate it. I don't appreciate the gas wasted getting to the interview where what I said was ignored. I don't appreciate my time being wasted, or my skills and education being ignored by recruiters. My education and my computer skills go way beyond $8 data entry. These recruiters know the answer already when they call to ask someone if interested in something they say they aren't interested in. If I say at the interview I am not interested in data entry, what is so hard to understand?

The other thing is this. You mention that 35-45K salary. Try working those $8 per hour jobs, and being over-qualified for it. It must be nice to complain about 35-45K, when in some cases, recruiters don't do their jobs correctly. They don't place people correctly for one. Why should recruiters care, when they make so much more money?

And as you said (I saw in your follow-up post after this) that recruiters are told to fire people for health. Finally someone on the other side admits that there is discrimination. Someone should tell that to Monarch Staffing in Springfield, PA. That's exactly what they did to me.

aeneas in Libertyville, Illinois said: (cont.)

Unless you are planning on using RHI to launch you into another industry and you are going to take advantage of them...stay away.

I should mention, I did once work for RHI...just one position. I was working at one place, when the recruiter out of the Wilmington, DE office called me about an entry-level programming position. At the time, I had a data entry job and was looking for a technical computer job. Entry-level programming...I thought I finally had a door opened to me. This was back in 1999, and I was newly trained for the IT world. When I went to the Wilmington office to finalize everything, and my current job knew I was leaving, the idiot recruiter at RHI Wilmington had his hand covering something. When he moved his hand, guess what he had been covering? The job description...and it did not say "entry-level programming." It said "data entry." It was too late to go back to my old job, and it paid less anyway, by $2 an hour. I stayed at the RHI job for 3 months, with 5 others that the same recruiter misplaced into that data entry job. All of us went to the supervisor at the job site and told him "we were trained for the IT field and were misplaced by the recruiter you used."

While I was there, one person placed there by RHI Wilmington was there for a day and walked off the job.

That was too extreme for me to do, and especially on day one, but temps are tired of the way temp agencies treat them.

Not to mention temps have to slave away for 1200-1500 hours to be eligible for med benefits. Then the job "ends" just before eligibility. If they don't find more work at their current agency, they agency hop, start back at ZERO, working for med benefits, only for the same thing to happen. The system is designed so temps NEVER get coverage. A temp gets a health problem, can't treated. Depending on the problem, a temp can die.

Displaced Legal Professional in Denver, Colorado said:

I take great exception to that statement. You headhunters may regard some candidates as "trash," but your denunciation of them is no excuse to treat them that way. You headhunters are supposed to be the "professionals." You are supposed to be above that and act better than that, but you don't. Headhunters have lied to me, have been rude to me and have broken promises to me. I'll write you the stories if you are interested. In the meantime, don't traipse around acting so noble when some of you act as "trashy" as the candidates you criticize.

Otherwise, Aeneas, your comments present another side and were interesting to read.

You shouldn't take exception as I don't believe you are the type of person I'm talking about. I'm not calling people like you trash. People like you were the reason I DID like working with candidates. You clearly have some analytical ability and appear to be an honest person. The people I am calling trash are the ones who would have children screaming into the phone, ordering McDonald's while I was offering them a job and accepting and then not showing up. I never had a problem with people who turned down jobs like you mentioned. In fact...I preferred working with candidates who DID turn down jobs that they weren't interested in. It was the liars that I considered trash.

I Never acted noble or stuck-up or any of that. I was constantly complimented by the candidates on treating them well and being a genuine person with them. The ones who didn't give that back are trash, not people like yourself. (Unless you were one of the people that did that to me. ; )

SouthernPAer in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania said: ... The recruiter calls me to ask if I'd be interested in a job that falls under what I clearly said I didn't want. So of course, I don't appreciate it. I don't appreciate the gas wasted getting to the interview where what I said was ignored. I don't appreciate my time being wasted, or my skills and education being ignored by recruiters. My education and my computer skills go way beyond $8 data entry...

And as you said (I saw in your follow-up post after this) that recruiters are told to fire people for health. Finally someone on the other side admits that there is discrimination. Someone should tell that to Monarch Staffing in Springfield, PA. That's exactly what they did to me.

Southern PAer. I agree with everything you said. And from the other side, this happened all the time. Many of the people that worked at RHI were under the gun and desperate for candidates. Trust me...those $8/hr d.e. jobs were insanely hard to fill. Anyone who did them for me was usually rewarded with a good permanent job soon after. I respect the effort on a gig like that.

I have worked with Office Team in the past and let me tell you, they are utterly stupid. One of the recruiters called me and was very rude, saying that I was released from a position due to attendance. I told him I would call him back. I tried to contact the lady I worked with and when I called her she was equally rude, telling that I was getting upset and rude. She was plain nasty. Honestly, if I had a company and heard that any one of my staff was rude for any reason, they would fired on the spot. Where to these idiots get off being rude? A letter to the president is in order. L T and GM look out.

Randi Vasha in Chicago, Illinois said: I have worked with Office Team in the past and let me tell you, they are utterly stupid. One of the recruiters called me and was very rude, saying that I was released from a position due to attendance. I told him I would call him back. I tried to contact the lady I worked with and when I called her she was equally rude, telling that I was getting upset and rude. She was plain nasty. Honestly, if I had a company and heard that any one of my staff was rude for any reason, they would fired on the spot. Where to these idiots get off being rude? A letter to the president is in order. L T and GM look out.

Randi, it's too bad you had a bad experience with OT.
I worked there as a full-time temp and had a great experience.
I was in St. Louis, though. I agree if a staff member is rude to a potential employee - something should have happened.
Sorry to hear you were treated so badly.

I just read this ENTIRE topic thread - it pains me to see how horribly employees are treated. I've had three hellish work environments, none of them related to Office Team.
I guess I was lucky - again, sorry you all had such painful experiences.

P.S. - Ryan (I think that was it?) screaming and yelling really doesn't reinforce your attitude, it just looks like you're angry because people are poo-pooing the company you work for.
If you're going to defend yourself and your job and your company - do it diplomatically.

If it makes anyone feel any better, look at their stock. This company is going down the absolute tubes. I'd love to see what the RHI "future retiree" is doing with all that stock they have after this unprecedented $15+ share dip over a year.

They are in TERRIBLE shape right now. I love it.

I used to temp for them up until two years ago when two assignments were ended abruptly. One was supposed to be long term to perm. My recruiter blew a lot of smoke about how excited they were about my resume and how these managers wanted to sit down with me, etc. All lies. My assignment ended in two days without me even knowing how to do my job. I was not even given the chance to perform.

The second one was cancelled within two hours without any reason given. All of this was within the same week. I wanted to know if I was doing something wrong and not known about it. I have no idea what happened. Although I was told that
the client I described above was eventually dropped by Office Team because they were just impossible and sent back every temp without cause. However, four or five months of going around with them with this made me stop checking in with them as I have others to work with. So I am glad I am not the only one who had
a terrible experience with them. Half the time I got sent to places I had no business being there because I did not have the skills they wanted and I was
not told I would need those said skills. Folks, do not use Office Team. I work for a good agency now.

To know that their stock has dipped and then some? THAT definitely makes me feel better! I guess people are finally beginning to realize what a bunch of incompetants these people are.

FreeFromWaMu in Wheaton, Illinois said: I used to temp for them up until two years ago when two assignments were ended abruptly. One was supposed to be long term to perm. My recruiter blew a lot of smoke about how excited they were about my resume and how these managers wanted to sit down with me, etc. All lies. My assignment ended in two days without me even knowing how to do my job. I was not even given the chance to perform.

The second one was cancelled within two hours without any reason given. All of this was within the same week. I wanted to know if I was doing something wrong and not known about it. I have no idea what happened. Although I was told that
the client I described above was eventually dropped by Office Team because they were just impossible and sent back every temp without cause. However, four or five months of going around with them with this made me stop checking in with them as I have others to work with. So I am glad I am not the only one who had
a terrible experience with them. Half the time I got sent to places I had no business being there because I did not have the skills they wanted and I was
not told I would need those said skills. Folks, do not use Office Team. I work for a good agency now.

I know that sometimes the crummy agencies like Office Team will put their "employees" on hold; tell them there's a job (in advance). If the client fills it another way, poof, the job is suddently gone.

I have had some shady experiences with Office Team. I have a college degree and extensive experience. The only positions that I was offered by Office Team were B.S., $10.00 an hour customer service positions and data entry positions. I initially took assignments to generate an income and establish a record of reliability with the agency. The quality of the assignments offered never changed. I also noticed, as a minority, that they only sent minorities to certain assignments and projects. I may contact EEOC about it. The government needs to improve employment law regarding employment agencies.

Hi, Lynn

First, I just have to agree with you that the hefty experience AND the B.S. degree definitely is worth more than getting $10 per hour jobs.

About the minority issue and if there is any discrimination going on, I hope things work out for you. I went through trying to pursue a discrimination case against a temp agency. One lawyer, who I only had a consultation with said that 9 times out of 10, the EEOC will side with the employer. The EEOC in my area...well, they could not see that I was discriminated against. I was let go solely due to health, despite even getting a doctor's signed consent-to-work form. My job was not physically demanding, and the health issue was not serious enough to not work. Anyway, hopefully the EEOC office you deal with will be better. I hope they are and I hope you can go far with your situation. You'll be winning one for all of us. And you're right...there should be improvements made regarding employment law and temp agencies. All of us on here should find some way to file a class action suit, since we seem to have a lot of the same problems with them.

Paper Box: I see now Office Team has gotten to the point where they don't even have people come in and waste their time going through the motions - they're just shooting people down via email.

How sad this company really is. It's time to put them out of business, but the saddest part is that they seem to have a stranglehold on the job websites - every other job comes through them.

Four pages worth of complaints (and there are other Office Team pages with still more complaints on this website alone!) and all the local BBB's can say is that dealing with complaints about them is not in their domain.

Office Team is sad and ridiculous little people.

These people are terrible. I get a call from one of them a few weeks ago. And I'm still applying to jobs without noticing some are from office team. I get an email saying i am not qualified enough for any jobs. Then another email a week later from a guy saying he is trying to get a hold of me. I told that man how i received an email from someone else saying I'm not qualified.

How dumb are these people? I don't think they are qualified to have those positions.

I went to two different staffing agencies in mass and i have not recieved a call back from either of them. How do these people make money?

They don't do anything!!!! Now if i get any calls from staffing agencies I'm not even going to bother. I don't have enough gas money to waste to drive out and meet with any of this people.

Lynn in Elmhurst, Illinois said: I have had some shady experiences with Office Team. I have a college degree and extensive experience. The only positions that I was offered by Office Team were B.S., $10.00 an hour customer service positions and data entry positions. I initially took assignments to generate an income and establish a record of reliability with the agency. The quality of the assignments offered never changed. I also noticed, as a minority, that they only sent minorities to certain assignments and projects. I may contact EEOC about it. The government needs to improve employment law regarding employment agencies.

Office Team DOES NOT HAVE BETTER jobs -- the better jobs don't need to use agencies to fill them. :)

I'm going to repost my story here because while it was on-topic, it still somehow got deleted.

I applied for several jobs through this agency, mostly office work, and have experience from many different types of jobs I've held as well as as a college degree. I can type about 100 words a minute and I've been typing and using a computer ever since I was young.

After filling everything out on their page and including my resume, I received an e-mail the same day I applied saying that OfficeTeam would not be a good solution for me at this time and that once I gain more experience in the field of administration that they would look forward to speaking with me.

They didn't ask me to take a skills assessment test, so it really puzzled me as to why they felt I was not qualified, when they wouldn't let me give them a chance to at least try to prove to them that I could do the work.

Paper Box in somewhere in the midwest said: I'm going to repost my story here because while it was on-topic, it still somehow got deleted.

I applied for several jobs through this agency, mostly office work, and have experience from many different types of jobs I've held as well as as a college degree. I can type about 100 words a minute and I've been typing and using a computer ever since I was young.

After filling everything out on their page and including my resume, I received an e-mail the same day I applied saying that OfficeTeam would not be a good solution for me at this time and that once I gain more experience in the field of administration that they would look forward to speaking with me.

They didn't ask me to take a skills assessment test, so it really puzzled me as to why they felt I was not qualified, when they wouldn't let me give them a chance to at least try to prove to them that I could do the work.

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They probably have too many applicants right now given the job market. I would call them and follow up.

Marie in Littleton, Colorado said: ******8
They probably have too many applicants right now given the job market. I would call them and follow up.

They posted another data entry position in my area on careerbuilder today. I went ahead and submitted my resume again along with a cover letter, and a few hours later, received an e-mail from the same recruiting manager as last time with the same message telling me that after reviewing my experience and skill set OfficeTeam would not be the best solution for me at this time.

I think this is just a form letter that's being sent out to a lot of people via e-mail regardless of one's skills. And since they're not providing a skills assessment test (in my area), I'm not sure how they're able to tell who is qualified for office work and who isn't.

Hey try applying at Caremark.com.. They have jobs listed there. I wish you luck. I know what it's like being a temp. Also you could try applying with Medix (I think that's how its spelled.). They work with Caremark and getting people assignments there.

In 2000, when I graduated from undergrad, I was hired within a week and began working for a huge utilities company in Virginia. It was a temp to hire position and I was hired full time in less than 3 months. Of course, the job market was completely different and at the time, many people thought that using a service like Office Team was beneath them. At the present time, I am an administrator working on my Phd. Eight years later, I believe that they are flooded with resumes and are not sensible enough to hire staffing managers in their offices to fulfill the need for the explosion. Which also makes you wonder if they do hiring, why wouldn't they hire more office personnel?

I would be upset if I had applied and received dishonest replies that instill hope to people that really want to work. Instead of constantly calling, I would recommend showing up each day you are not working, which would force people to get annoyed with seeing your face. Your persistence is actually a great job quality and in turn, you may find it an advantage. Leaving voice mails simply annoys people to the point where they delete you as soon as they hear the sound of your voice.

Be cautious if the people in the office are arrogant, as if you owe them something in this job market. As I mentioned to a few other people, as the market now requires people to be more customer service oriented, people with jobs need to realize that they can lose their jobs to people who are actually willing to treat people with dignity. They MUST learn that or risk losing reputations and paychecks. Much luck to all of you :)

The Fort Collins office is terrible. Full of those fake ads!! I check career builder every other day. I called and said - "I registered with you two months ago and was wondering if I could be considered for the posted position. One time they said that that was an old listing and it was already filled (it was one day old) another time they told me that they would forward my information but I wasn't what the company was looking for (I'm in my late 30s early 40s) and they said I had to be in my 20s to even go interview for the job. Isn't that discrimination or something? UGH!

I'm still seeing jobs online for Office Team and I just want to re-enforce that they are a horrible place to work for. They cheated me out of a job and they are a dishonest bunch of pricks.