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elSicomoro · 06-02-2002, 11:38 AM

Thanks man.

My main suspicion for not being hired is poor thinking on IBX's part. They might think they're saving money on temps. At the time I put the application in, I had only been a temp for 2 months. The policy with my agency is that you cannot be a perm employee for a company until 6 months have passed since your first day temping there. Well...you CAN become an employee, but if it is before the 6 months is up, the company can pay a separation fee to the agency. Another alternative is that you continue to work for the agency at your new rate of pay until the 6 months is up.

As I figure it, the separation fee would have been around $6600. Given that I'm low maintenance on the insurance tip, and you figure in intangibles like employee happiness, not having to train someone new, and what not, I feel that I would have been well worth that separation fee. Not to mention, the $6600 is what I would have been paid in the first 3 months of this year anyway.

What's worse, the temps can't work overtime. Only the perms can work OT. My thinking is if you actually hired some of the temps, you wouldn't have to pay out that OT, and it would balance out.

Maybe their current way of doing things makes sense to them, and there's no doubt that I'm a disgruntled employee. But just from my background in running a business, keeping all these temps is a huge money and time waster.

06-02-2002, 11:38 AM	#3
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	Thanks man. My main suspicion for not being hired is poor thinking on IBX's part. They might think they're saving money on temps. At the time I put the application in, I had only been a temp for 2 months. The policy with my agency is that you cannot be a perm employee for a company until 6 months have passed since your first day temping there. Well...you CAN become an employee, but if it is before the 6 months is up, the company can pay a separation fee to the agency. Another alternative is that you continue to work for the agency at your new rate of pay until the 6 months is up. As I figure it, the separation fee would have been around $6600. Given that I'm low maintenance on the insurance tip, and you figure in intangibles like employee happiness, not having to train someone new, and what not, I feel that I would have been well worth that separation fee. Not to mention, the $6600 is what I would have been paid in the first 3 months of this year anyway. What's worse, the temps can't work overtime. Only the perms can work OT. My thinking is if you actually hired some of the temps, you wouldn't have to pay out that OT, and it would balance out. Maybe their current way of doing things makes sense to them, and there's no doubt that I'm a disgruntled employee. But just from my background in running a business, keeping all these temps is a huge money and time waster.