Just so many.... they would email and call me often about potential office work. Usually, I'm already working so I tell them I'm unavailable but there's been quite a few times where I've told them I'm interested only to never hear from them until the next job comes along. There was only two times that they even asked me to come in to the office to apply for the company.
The first time, I was talking to one of the staff members through multiple phone calls and emails about a potential job. She seemed so interested in me and excited for me to come in. This particular staff member has emailed and called me plenty of times about several jobs, and she was always pleasant. I've given her my resume and info quite a few times but when I came in to meet with her, her demeanor completely changed. She was short with me and rude and then told me she couldn't sell my resume to anyone because I have too many short term temp jobs on there and I needed to completely fix my resume. I had no idea how to fix that, so I went home feeling crappy but tried to rework my resume. She called me a day later to offer me a short term temp assignment. I declined as according to her, that was my issue.
The second time I went into the office, I was talking to a different staff member for some time as well. She was so pleasant and delightful and seemed to really be trying to place me into an office job since I started talking her (Same issue of usually when she contacted me, I was already doing a job). After a position I had for a year through a different and much better temp agency, I needed some time off for family reasons and she contacted me about an office job around the time I was ready to get back to work. A few days later she told me about a warehouse position that lasts a week. I was desperate for work and figured they'd get to know my work ethic, so why not go for it. Of course, I got this job and went in to meet her.
While waiting in the office for her to arrive for our appointment (she was late) she walked right pass me not even acknowledging me. When the receptionist informed her, I was the person she was meeting with, she came over and apologized and set me up for tests. She very obviously didn't want to shake my hand and was looking at me like I said something rude to her. This person who has been very personable and lovely to me every time we talked, all of a sudden was standoffish and looked like she just wanted to flee. After quickly meeting me and setting me up for the tests, I didn't see or talk to her again until after my assignment. I did the warehouse job that was not even close to my office assistant/clerical field and then when I finished she asked if I'd be interested in a job that wasn't near me and was less pay than the job I just finished and lower pay that I've had at any job since I started working.
I can only speculate on why these people are nice to me over the phone and email and then when they see me face to face, all of sudden aren't interested. I don't THINK I'm sure an abomination of an ugly person that they'd be so shocked and couldn't even face me comfortably. I don't like to throw the race card out there, but seeing as they knew my info beforehand except for I look like, I can only think to attribute it to something about the way I look. However, perhaps I'm wrong about the race thing and I actually am distractingly awful looking.
Beyond that, I have a huge problem with them telling me that short term temp jobs are an issue for my resume only to offer me only short term temp jobs. I also have an issue with them placing me in jobs outside my field and offering me jobs with insultingly low pay. I would think it's just me, but every other temp agency I've signed up with has been able to get me office jobs (some truly great ones) at much much better pay. So the issue lies entirely with them.
