[AccessD] I told you of this one before....."wrong direction"

I worked for such an agency for years. 

Many clients would quit the agency and then call me up a year after their
last assignment as that was the date limit for legal repercussions. I found
out that in many cases agency would farm me out at some ridiculous fee and
would pay me a small portion. 

When I was working for some of these old clients, the agency found out and
tried to sue me for some breach of contract. One of my clients, a large one,
went to bat on my behalf and the pending court case disappeared. The agency
of course had no ground on which to pursue redress but they knew they had a
lot deeper pockets against any defense I could afford to mount.

I was lucky but many other systems techs, especially foreign, would find
themselves locked in these contracts, for years, at substandard rates where
they would be cheated out of hours, additional expenses and would know of no
one to turn to. I went so far as to start some preliminary steps to form an
association but many of these other techs were scared of their own shadow.

I can not describe in polite terms what I think of these agencies,
especially the ones I have been associated with. They are little more than
abusive pimps.

Jim

-----Original Message-----
From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Mark Simms
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:36 AM
To: 'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
Subject: Re: [AccessD] I told you of this one before....."wrong direction"

You're very sharp Susan....as you picked-out a very powerful weapon used by
the agencies.
It was a onerous 1 year agreement. The count-down BEGINS the day after no
longer do any work for that client.
Since the client used this agency for other personnel fill-ins as well, they
did not want to chance a lawsuit over breaking this agreement.
The agencies get away with this because the downside EFFECTS of such an
agreement are never made known. It's the agency's "big secret". That's why
this is such a great story of CAUSE and EFFECT. Here is a clear cut case of
the clause causing harm to the client. You never hear or read about the
stories related to this, do you ? I can see it now....
"Greedy Agency Harms Own Client Over Onerous Non-compete Agreement"



> ========The non-compete was 100% binding? Most will have a clause that
> restricts you for a certain number of weeks or even months, so how long
> were you there?
>
>
> Susan H.


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