Kelly Services
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Some Indian Call Ceter Woman that could barely speak english called me about a 3 month job opportunity at Intel working as a Design Verification engineer. I can't beleive Intel hires people this bad to represent their engineering department over the phone. If I didn't know any better, I would think its some send me money scam in niageria... I am the King of Niageria... people help me cash 10, 000 check and i promise to pay you back... this is how bad this lady sounded to me... As if that wasn't bad enough... they called me 10 times last week, all of them indian call enter people with unbelievably bad english accients... I finally told them to go away... and then a different indian call center started calling me from some company called colabera and HCL America, and WiPro... these people sound dumb as hell, and they were trying to find engineers for Qualcom and Broadcom, and AMD... Somebody please tell me what the heck is going on?

Was hired by Kelly Services to work on the floor of TG Missouri Manufacturing Floor. All of Kelly Contracts are required to wear GREEN shirts so they can be recognized from any other TG employee. Kelly has set different prevailing wages for the different tasking required on the manufacturing floor. Wheat is known at this point is that Tina and Stephanie do not always give the contract their prevailing wage for task performed. I was told by Stephanie I would not receive the prevailing wage because I would have to be taken back to what I was making previous. The other known facts of this employment is that you are yelled at and belittled by different Leads who have no clue what they are doing nor have the experience to be doing their specific task. Kelly or rather Tina and Stephanie will NOT defend their contracts or make any effort to stop what is taking place with the Kelly Contracts on the TG floor. Supervisors can make up anything they choose and Kelly will go along with it and terminate your contract with them. This is a very poor way to do business. If you are into severe verbal abuse and do not want to get paid what you are worth, this is the place and the company to work for, just ask Tina or Stephanie.

I hired on with Kelly in 2014 for temp assignments I loved my first assignment but it was only temporary until the company found a permanent employee. Ihree months later the same company called me back and got it OK'd with Kelly services to complete another assignment. I loved the position so much that I found the add online and applied for the job directly and I was chosen for the position and offered a career. Well Kelly services will not let them hire me for 90 days and are not even counting the first assignment I did with the company towards my 90 days they are holding be back from a huge raise and health insurance which I am in desperate need of. They are supposed to help you with a career and help you find a job but they hold you back and it sounds like all they care about is a pay check
because I was told the company normally does not do direct hire employees from Kelly because they have to pay Kelly around $6, 000.00. WHAT! If I would of know that from the beginning I would not of worked for Kelly nobody will use me to draw a paycheck. I have thought about calling Kelly and telling them I quit so I can get hired on directly by the company but I don't want to risk the company messing up there contract with Kelly. How can anyone hold you back from advancing in the workplace it just seems wrong to me. I do not recommend this temp agency to anybody.

I applied for a job on Indeed about two months ago, for which I had to apply for through Kelly Services. The next day, I received a call from Kelly Services asking me to come in and interview for this position. When I came in for the interview, which was the following day, I was told that the position had already been filled, but they had another position available and she would submit my resume for that one. I received a call the next day from Kelly services asking me to come in for an interview again the following day (applied Sunday, got a call Monday, interviewed Tuesday, was called on Wednesday, interviewed again on Thursday). This time I interviewed with the department manager for the company that I would potentially be working for. The interview went great- he took me on a tour of the company, had me sit in with someone in the position I was interviewing for, introduced me to his colleagues, and had already alluded to promoting me once my temp time was up. He said that I would hear from a Kelly rep by Monday at the latest to start the hiring process. Before I left, the Kelly employee asked me if I had filled out an application yet. I said that I had only submitted my resume. She emailed me an application and the proficiency tests to take. I didn't hear anything back the whole next week. The following Monday, I called Kelly services and left a voicemail for the rep I had spoken with. She never called me back. A few days later, I debated calling the department manager that I had interviewed with- a risky move, but like I said, the interview went exceptionally well, so I did. I talked to him and he reiterated that the interview went well and that I should have heard back from Kelly and to give it another day or two. He said that he was looking forward to adding me to his team.

Three weeks later, I received a call from Kelly Services, and she apologized for the delay, but said that they wanted to proceed with the hiring process. I still wanted the job, and I said that it wasn't a problem. She said that she just needed to touch base with the department manager to get all the paperwork together and find out the date they wanted me to start and that she would call me back on Monday (this was on a Friday). Monday came and she didn't call. I sent an email, but she didn't respond.

TWO WEEKS LATER, she called me and apologized for the delay once again and said that they were ready to start the process to hire me. By this time, I had just started another temp job, and had pretty much given up on this position. But, I still wanted this job, so I said ok. She said she needed me to come in that day to fill out an application (WTF?) and sign the forms to give permission for the background and drug screens. I explained that I had just started this position and she agreed to email me the forms that I needed to fill out, which was nice of her. I filled them out and sent them back and looked over the list of places that I could go to take the drug test (all of which closed before 5 and were only open M-F). One of them was down the street from my job, so I was able to go down on my lunch hour.

After I took the drug test, which was last week, the lady from Kelly services called me on Friday and said that they were officially offering me the position and that I was going to be starting next Monday. She left a voicemail and I had to call her back but it went to her voicemail. I left a message, but she didn't call me back. Yesterday, I sent an email and today I called again and she finally called me back. I simply needed to know if next Monday was for sure, without a doubt, the day I was starting. I need to let this place know and I don't want to just not ever show up again- it's bad form. So, when she called me back, she said that they wanted me to start on Monday but she had run into some problems. She said that she had been requesting my transcripts but had not gotten any responses. I said that I can call and request them also if she would like (I have never had an issue getting my transcripts). Then she said that they had been unable to verify my work history- I figured that maybe one or two jobs in the last ten years might be difficult, due to closing or whatever, but no. She proceeded to list off EVERY JOB I HAVE HAD IN THE LAST DECADE! She then asked me to contact the IRS and request a wage and income verification to be faxed to her. By Friday, or the offer will likely be rescinded. I said that I would try to get the information she needed on time. I looked on the IRS website and I didn't find a wage and income verification form request, but they will only mail any kind of transcript request anyhow, meaning it won't be here by Friday regardless. I really wanted this job, but I am so mad right now that I am fighting the urge to tell Kelly services that they don't have to bother rescinding the offer because I am rescinding my application. Further, I am seriously considering calling the company directly and telling them that if they want me, I want a direct hire only and I will explain this whole long list of nonsense to them.

The conclusion that I came to after thinking about this all day is that either, A.) Kelly Services wants to save a few bucks by making me pay for the background information that they are requesting, or B.) She didn't do it to begin with and is getting in trouble for it. Secondly, if the situation were reversed and I were hiring a new employee, I certainly would not extend an offer to someone who, for all intents and purposes, doesn't exist on paper! Third, me not existing on paper is complete crap, unless there is a very serious error somewhere that I need to know about. I'm done with my rant- maybe I dodged a bullet. And maybe I just lost out on a great job. Either way, my patience has run out with Kelly Services.

The office staff is a joke! They never return calls promptly. When and if they do return your call they seem to be annoyed that you called in the first place. No one can ever provide you with any details regarding your assignment. The company that they assign you to can't even reach anyone on the phone. The employees should actually hangup the phone before making unprofessional comments about you because you have called numerous of times for specific individual. What happened to the line of communication? When they call to see if you would like to report to an assignment you can't get them off the phone.

Dear Sir,

With deep regret i am sending this mail:
I was working in NSN under Payroll of kelly services from 17th Dec'2007 to 13th Feb'2010. i have submitted the PF withdrawl form for NSN thrice(Feb'10, Dec'10 & Aug'11) as the forms were misplaced first two times;Already 2 years passed, but i have not received my PF amount, i tried to contact the Kelly coordinator through mail/phone, firstly i didn't get any reply, but she is now telling to contact delhi kelly office, nobody is giving any response regarding this from delhi kelly office, kindly support on this issue.

PF DETAILS(NSN-KELLY):

1 PF No: MH/46257/20536
2 Emp ID: 36981
3 Location: Kolkata_CKolkata
4 Designation: NSS O & M Engineer
5 Date of Joining 17th Dec'2007
6 Date of Leaving 13th Feb'2010

I was working a temp to hire within 90 day assignment thru Kelly. I reached day 97, and still no word as to the effective date of permanent status. even the HR rep for the company had stopped to let me know, that with everything going on, that my review was coming up on the 90 day, and would be done. Well, I took them for their word. I needed a better vehicle to get back and forth to work, so I worked thru a local car dealer, and got a vehicle. The dealer checked out my work status, and everything was a go for the loan, provided my permanent placement was done as it was suppose to be. Well, permanent placement never happened, and I had to return the vehicle. They decided to put it off for another month, due to switching around supervisors. The Kelly agent knew my situation, and that if the placement wasn't done, I would have to return the vehicle, and couldn't make it to work. It fell on deaf ears. So I'm out the money I put down, the vehicle, and the job. Kelly terminated me for not showing up to work.

I want to start off by saying that Zappos is a great place to work, it is Kelly services that are the horrible to work for. I was hired as a supervisor for Kelly services to "look after" the seasonal team members. I had a supervisor above me that was very nice to everyone, then one day he was fired. The new supervisor was a very manly woman... I had zappos managers come to me and ask me to have so and so team members fired and she had to do it because she was the night shift house supervisor. I was only a floor supervisor.She literally said, I don't have time to do that, I can't be everywhere at once, I'm not firing no body for these Zappos people. I have an autoimmune disorder ( pancreas) that leaves me on a light pain med. They knew this when they hired me, I showed them the bottle. I passed the drug test. They also knew that I had an appt at a national renowned hospital for a second opinion with my condition. This woman literally harassed me everyday telling me that I could not work here and take pain medicine while I worked there. There was nothing in the handbook that stated that. After I got back from the hospital she wanted to know what the dr's had told me and I told her what they aid...1. take my pain med, 2 get a pain pump, 3 Get my pancreas cut out. She looked at me and said well then its an easy decision you have to get your pancreas cut out. Because you cant take medicine here. At this point I had, had it . I went to the kelly website and wrote an email telling them exactly what she was doing. So fast forward to when we work 2 days later, I am on the floor working she sends me a text message asking me to come upstairs to her evil den and then proceeds to tell me that she is terminating me because I have been sleeping everyday on the job for the past 5 weeks. (Totally untrue) I asked her if this was true why didn't she say something the first time i was allegedly "sleeping" and why it would take 5 weeks to say something. She said she "liked me and was giving me the benefit of the doubt" this is total bullcrap and anyone knows it. If you catch someone sleeping you fire them then and there, no second chances. She then said o.k. well I will watch you tonight and see if you go to sleep tonight. She harassed me everyday because of my health and I don't think it was any circumstance that I turned her in to corporate 2-3 days before this and Zappos Was hiring me on full time next week until this happened. Oh yeah, also she offered to place me in another job with Kelly services in another factory/ office but she saw me TALKING to my Zappos manager and then she said you can't talk to him you're fired. I kid you not, I was talking to him on my break. These people can take the Kelly jobs and stick them up there butts because I will NEVER work for them again and put another PENNY in their pockets.

I was hired on for a 90 day temp position that was supposed to turn into a permanent job. Well, 89 days later I got a phone call to not report back to work...my services were no longer needed. Never was I given a reason why. Then to top it off I was not allowed to go back to get my personal items that were left there (since I was told that I was to be hired on permananently I had to fill out tax info, and other items with personal info such as my social security number, drivers licenses, bank account, etc) - well long story short, I have yet to get any of my belongings back and they will not place me in another position since they claim none are availalbe. However, I received a call from my bank stating that a check had been passed for $900 to Sears and also 6 credit card applications were processed in my name.
Bottom line, I believe it was Kelly Services job to make sure that the company I was working for, which by the way is one of the largest hospitals in Cincinnati, should have sent my items back. I now have to go to court because only two people there had access to my locked desk and I was informed that the applications for the cc's were done on a computer in the hospital.

I had never gone thru a temp agency before and I now definately will never use one again.
If this is how they operate it's bs. I was laid off three years ago and started back to school full time but needed a job to pay bills and now they not only hacked my bank accounts but tried to open cc's in my name and purchased a new washer from Sears. I don't know if it's Kelly I'm mad at or the hospital but bottom line, make sure you double check if you decided to use a temp service because after speaking with a lawyer, I was told this happens constantly.

I hope someone will read this and it will help you avoid the crap I have to now go thru.

I have submit my all document in all document my name is sheela kumari, and kelly provided me offer letter and every thing name of sheela kumari but i have submit my docs are for PF the change my name Themy have mention there sheela jha so I am not able to get my pf. I am suffring since two year so please check my details and revart me as soon as possibale. my hr name is seema sinha is is not picking my call any is not giving information so tell me what should i do.

I've been a temp agent for 2 yrs at a major oil employer. Over the course of 2 years, I am absolutely 100% sure, Kelly Services does not care for its employees.

I've been here 2 years, and over those 2 years its been nothing bad headache. But lately, I'm not sure what to do about this situation.

Our standard chairs are horrible for my back, in my case, I've tried countless emails, I spoke to my other supervisor, the ergonomics agent, and aKelly Services rep for another chair. Nothing, they won't acknowledge me, the ergonomics assessor was RUDE, and prejudice. Kelly Services wouldn't return my emails, I had to hound and keep following up with her. I asked her to send me in writing why I'm not allow to have another available chair that suited better for my back. Never heard from her again, she gets another rep to call me now.

I've spoken to my doctor about this, how any other given temp agent is given a chair, mouse, keyboard, everything, ... yet nothing for me. She provided me a note, to which I brought to the attention of Rep, completely disregarded it and said no.

When I first started this job, its was drilled, imperative that safety and health was the biggest factor here. As of now, I have a pinched nerve in my left shoulder, massive migraines for every shift I work, my joints throb, and carpal tunnel starting.

I did mange to find a free chair that was perfect for me, I used it one weekend, first time in a long time I had a great weekend of shifts. I come in the following week to find out the ergonomic assessor took the chair and gave it to someone else... not a temp agent.

I don't know what to do, when your temp agency, the contractual employer, and ergonomic assessor will not help you.