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

Fantastic summary Jim. Sad, but true.

>
> 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.