Temping assignment got terminated without any valid reason!

geek84

Hi folks

I have been temping as a credit controller, through a recruitment agency, for a large organisation for about a month now. Everything seemed to have been going fine and the agency was getting good feedback regarding my work performance etc.

However, today I had a day off work (I booked the day off last week), and this afternoon the agency rang me to say the company has decided to terminate my contract. They did not give any specific details as to the reason why.

I have still got my team leader's email address (where I was working) and was wondering whether or not it would be a good idea if I contacted my team leader to ask the reason why my role was terminated.

Any advice offered would be greatly appreciated.

Tiglath

I wouldn't personally, but I'd ask the agency for an explanation - the organisation must have given a reason to them.

PlutoinCapricorn

I think that in your position I would send an email, provided that I could do it without coming across as angry or too upset etc.

It is reasonable just to say that you would like to know why this has happened.

SCOYA

I would contact the company directly as I honestly don't think you'd get an honest answer from the agency.

sunflower_2

for me it would depend on whether or not they have taken on someone else to take my place?

it could be just they did some re-shuffling and didnt need you anymore?

where I work decisions like this are made in 5 minutes by the people who live at the top.

MissSarah1972

If you are temping the contract is between the company and the agency so if they have terminated you it was with the contract with the agency. The agency would know why and you need to ask them what the reason was.

Tiglath

If you contact the company directly and it gets back to your agency, you may well find they won't offer you any future roles - they can be really tetchy about client contact and keeping things on a professional level with them as the intermediary. I fell foul of something similar to this more than 20 years ago.

geek84

Hi Folks

Many thanks for your kind replies.

I know this may sound a bit rude - but do you think the agency would tell me the 'real' reason for the client teminating my contract?

Thanks

Tiglath

I would think it would be in their interests to do so - if you've done something 'wrong' (and I'm not suggesting you have), they would surely want you to know so that it wouldn't happen again and they can offer you other contracts (as that's how they get their fees). If an agency wouldn't give me honest feedback, that would ring alarm bells for me. It may well be that the work got rejigged and the company decided they no longer needed you, through no fault of your own; maybe they saved up notifying your agency until you were out of the office on your pre-booked day off to avoid awkwardness.

Notmyrealname

geek84 wrote: »

However, today I had a day off work (I booked the day off last week), and this afternoon the agency rang me to say the company has decided to terminate my contract. They did not give any specific details as to the reason why.

They didn't terminate your contract as your contract is between you and the agency, not you and the company. The company decided they didn't want you there for whatever reason.

I have still got my team leader's email address (where I was working) and was wondering whether or not it would be a good idea if I contacted my team leader to ask the reason why my role was terminated.

Any advice offered would be greatly appreciated.

Pointless. You're a temp on zero hours. Part of the reason for having temps is the ability to lay off staff with absolutely no notice if there is no demand for them, they're under performing or whatever.

Emailing a team leader at a company you don't work for is likely to see your card marked and not asked back.

If you're wanting job security then don't go temping.

Tiglath wrote:

If an agency wouldn't give me honest feedback, that would ring alarm bells for me.

The day an agency tells a worker the truth about anything is the day the world ends.

CCFC_80

MissSarah1972 wrote: »

If you are temping the contract is between the company and the agency so if they have terminated you it was with the contract with the agency. The agency would know why and you need to ask them what the reason was.

THe problem is the agency will probably take a diplomatic stance and will lie through their teeth about the reason. They will be too far up their clients backside.

Good suggestion I think for the OP to email the team leader as they have their email address and might get the truth.