tempo-team.nl

Untrustworthy Agency

I applied through them almost 10 days ago and the recruiter Alexandra reached out to me by phone and as usual with these agencies the position was not available and proposed other positions for you which kinda seems like their offers on their website are fake and they just want to lure people and put them in positions that THEY want because if a position is not available it should be removed immediately. Anyway we agreed to proceed with a picking packing position without even having a video call and I was sent some papers for signing along with some flyers regarding the accommodation. However the papers weren't clear in some places and asked for clarification due to the fact that it wasn't mentioned during the phone call and she reached out to me 4 days later and clarified and told me that the papers had to me signed today otherwise she wouldn't be able to reserve the spot for me. I was told to contact the accommodation manager if I had any questions regarding the location and even though I did she never replied or reached out to me, she never even went online for days on WhatsApp which caused me to have some thoughts regarding the whole ordeal, also I was told that I can only arrive on Sunday for some reason and within a specific time frame of 09:00-17:30 and then I received a different email from another department of the agency telling me that the check in time was until 13:30 which is odd because what kind of accommodation department has one employee only? That meant that there was absolutely no way I could be in the location within this time frame because there was no direct flight for the Netherlands on that day which meant at least 5:30hr flight with a layover and given the fact that I already live 3 hours away from the airport it automatically meant that the earliest flight I could catch was the 11 which was not available because it was Sunday and everyone knows how flights work during weekends plus they're like 2 or 3 times more expensive. It seemed really odd to me that they have these demands regarding the check in times given that it's not a hotel or Airbnb that we're talking about but a regular staff accommodation and the very fact that this meant that if there was a delay regarding the flight or train/bus from the airport to their location meant that I'd have to stay a night without accommodation seemed really unprofessional to me because I've never heard of such a thing before in my life. Given the fact that the location was on the other side of the country closer to the Belgian borders and given the fact that they know their employees have to travel from another country to get there they should be more accommodating regarding the times and not expect you to travel from the day before and pay a flight of 900euro for a flight within Europe during Sunday and go through all this trouble just because they want you to be there until 1:30 or 17:30 as their emails were different. Something nagged me with this and I went online to check their reviews and i saw that more than 70% of their reviews were negative with current or former employees complaining about issues like not getting paid on time, working in a toxic and unprofessional environment, having money withheld from the agency which is not something I was looking for because the role of the agency ends when the deal is done with the employer and you should get paid from your employer and not the agency or being the agency's amployee basically, I wasn't informed about all this on the phone which is insufficient communication therefore I decided to heed the warnings of all these people and trust my intuition and not proceed with their offer as it looked like I was only going to have the same problems.

Date of experience: Oct 03, 2024