machine operator

assembler

forklift operator

production associate

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Qualified Staffing

A typical day at work begins at 6am. If you arrive at 6:01, that is an occurrence. An occurrence is a mark against your attendance and you will receive these for everything. Surgery to remove pre-cancerous cells? Occurrence. Court date? Occurrence. Hit a deer on the way to work? Occurrence. Leave early because you or your child is sick? Occurrence. House burns down and you miss work? Occurrence. These occurrences add up quite fast and it does not matter to them whether you have paperwork to prove you were in the hospital or at court or whether you had just cause. It is an occurrence. And once you have 6 of them, you will be written up and sent to the Saginaw office. After that, you are put on probation and unable to get bonuses, raises, etc.. Yes, you are covered head to toe in a clean room suit wearing the most uncomfortable pair of $95 steel toed boots that your money can buy. They must be the kind they offer...for you to buy. You also wear mono-goggles to avoid the shrapnel known as poly from getting in your eye. Which still happens, quite often. I have watched some people go to the eye wash station three times in one week to remove the burning, stinging poly from their eye. It's not the clothing or attendance that I have a problem with, it is how you are treated. It is the most degrading place I have ever worked. Supervisors are condescending and not confidential. Foremen are barely capable of staying awake and have no idea what is going on. And the table leaders that you work with directly vary from production work horses to incompetent people. Many of the coworkers are rude and miserable. Females always have harassment issues. So you want to hire directly in to HSC? Then avoid this place and take classes at Delta for Chemical processing. QSS says that you can directly hire in and promises of advancement but this is untrue. HSC has not ever hired someone directly in. We do not even work with or even near HSC employees. And the only "advancement" is making a parallel move to one of QSS's other buildings. Same job. No raise. No advancement. The overtime they offer ends and then you work one 12 hour shift a week around spring-summer. But they continue to hire at this time. Some people should be prepared not to collect unemployment. They did lay off a few but did not call them. These people came in to go to work and were told to go home because they did not work here anymore. You are locked inside for the entirety of your shift. You may not go to your car for any reason. There have been "chemicals released" multiple times and we have never been told what we were exposed to. You will be inhaling dark grey poly-silicon dust, you will see it all over your nose. They offer something similar to a surgical veil which this dust will collect on but they will not let you get new veils. You must continue to use a dirty one if you are even allowed to wear one because they are "very expensive". So they are almost useless to wear since the dust collects on it and you begin inhaling it there.

To summarize, the training week is full of half-truths and whole-lies. You are put into a place that does not care about you, your safety, of your well being. You are surrounded by terrible people. And there is not a chance of getting directly hired. Avoid this company!

The schedule is nice because you work 2 or 3 days and get 2 or 3 days off and you get 36 hr and 48 hr paychecks, however, you are working 12 hour shifts and if you miss one day it is a huge chunk of your paycheck. Your hours can be cut at any time with no notice, and for a period of 2 or 3 months we only worked 12 hours a week.  Also, there are strict rules that sometimes change on a daily basis, and half of the rules don't make sense. There is more drama than middle school or high school, and I have never met more two-faced people in my life. Management needs to learn what communication is because no one is ever on the same page, and sometimes tell the same person to do opposite tasks. In my personal experience, we were always told if we have any sort of problem to take it to management, and when I did I was either scolded like a child for "whining" about it, or was flat out told there was nothing anyone could do. We have had meetings about "work place violence," yet when a problem actually comes up, there is nothing really done about it. When I recieved a work related injury I was refused medical treatment because the safety reps didnt think I was hurt bad enough and they get talked to when there are a high number of reported injuries. 

You are absolutely treated like a number at this company with no regard to your personal life. They can lay you off at any time and not give you a reason for it, and they will hire in new people at a lower wage to replace you. You start out at $9.50 an hour and are maxed out at $11.25 an hour after about a year with no hope for a raise for the remainder of your time there, even for cost of living.

All of the negative reviews sum this place up. Qualified staffing is a terrible place to work for. They make it very difficult to file for under employment (Things get extremely slow in the spring but they'll bring you in for 4-10 hours a week) and when you do file for under employment they fight it. They told me that I needed to take use my day off to go to their "workshop" on how to file under employment. According to QSS I was over filing, but when I sent my records in to the State of Michigan they said I was doing it right. Therefore I refused to use my day off to go to their "workshop" (45 min drive one way to get to their office, they would not tell me and estimated length of this "workshop", I would have to get a babysitter, and I would not get any compensation). They followed that up by flagging my badge (not allowing me back to work) and threatening me. They told me that I had 2 day (my 2 days off) to take their workshop or they would file me as a voluntary quit. I used those 2 days to find a new job.

Last week I received a letter in the mail from the State of Michigan. The letter reads:
"You were terminated from Quality Temporary Service for alleged insubordination. The employer has failed to provide adequate and sufficient documentation to establish misconduct in connection to work.
It is found that you were not fired for a deliberate disregard of your employers interest. You are not disqualified for benefits under MES ACT, Sec. 29(1)(B)."

The people working for this place are extremely shady. Don't trust what they have to say. They are only out for themselves, not their employees.

This is a terrible staffing agency. They tell you basically nothing. Going in blind. They make you fill out a ton of paperwork. (understandable) Then tell you where and what hours you will work. However when you get to where they assign you, you get a completely different schedule. I worked one day at a warehouse and quit the next because of my schedule was "set in stone." Ashton said that the warehouse schedule was to train me.....Then why didn't ashton tell me BEFORE I went into work?! Also the recruiter said to get to work 15 minutes early, then at orientation they say to get there 30 minutes early (unpaid)  They also say, if your position requires work boots, that they will pay for up to so much, $59. What they DON"T tell you is that you have to work for 30 days. They tend to lie just a little bit. And had I not called them out on paying for the work boots, they never would have said anything. Sneaky sneaky sneaky! You have to watch them with both eyes. Keep in mind this is only for the Calhoun location. I cant review the other places, but im sure they are just as bad. I have used them twice now. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, bad review.

12 hr shifts 6pm - 6am ;  they don't give you but 6 days a yr.  if you off.   They are certainly not a family oriented company.  They preach safe working conditions, but when violent behavior takes place they look the other way.     Its a good place for young people to hook up with their new baby daddies.  Most of the workers are lazy and foremans seem to turn their heads and not notice, because the older mature workers there pick up the slack.  I was  required to listen to the most horrible radio stations and you couldn't turn down and even wearing earplugs and earmuffs you still couldn't here some one when they asked you a question....huh?   huh?  huh?  was my vocabulary.   Breaks are only 30 min.  but by the time you take off the suit and get out , you get about 15-20 minute breaks 3x in a 12 hr. shift...but the foreman take around 4 1 hour break a night and "pit crew"  gets 3  one hour breaks every night...which they are not suppose to ;  but then again foremans don't say anything and then the regular employee has to do 2 jobs to cover them...Worst company ever worked at..pays decent; mandatory overtime  up to 72 hrs a wk. for most of the spring, summer and fall.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Helping people find jobs was rewarding.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
The company was driven by metrics; people were just a number. Corporate had unreasonable expectations of how many calls, interviews conducted & job placements you made during the week & the lack of resources and tools made it even more difficult to meet their quotas. If you worked hard, non-stop all week & only ended up placing 3 people, instead of being proud that you helped 3 people find work & 3 clients find employees, you felt defeated because corporate’s expectations was 8 placements. The stress level was unhealthy.

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Team dynamic, competitive, unattainable goals, stressful.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
Phone rings  non-stop. Pre-screening online applicants, & walk-ins, conducting interviews, reading/sending emails, putting out fires, checking references, chasing down employees who no-call no-show for work, terminating employees, returning calls, documenting every action in the database.

A&G are THE most professional temp agency I've worked for. Big, big props to them. They are always courteous, easy to work with, polite, and most of all, they will call you with a job instead of you having to call them constantly. I love that part about working for them especially. Very nice to have a call out of the blue for a job when you need work, and all you need to do is show up.:) 

For example, I registered with them..they didn't have anything for me right away (for several reasons), but nearly 3 MONTHS later(!!!), I received a call from them with an offer. That alone blew me away.

The most frustrating and disappointing moment I had was when they called me for an offer that was directly related to (that started immediately and was temp to permanent) my previous work skillset, and there was a slight delay in confirming me for it, because of timing of phone calls, and when I received the call back, it had been filled. It happens.

Most frustrating part is not becoming permanent at any of the jobs, but maybe that's meant to be.

I worked there for about 6 months. Since the beginning I noticed it was a chaotic, disorganized, hostile and unprofessional environment and that, unfortunately never changed. I managed to tolerate this situation until I got pregnant and received pregnancy discrimination so I decided to get away from that place immediately after. If you work here, you will answer phones, help people (candidates), help with payroll, input information into 2 systems, perform urine drug test, clean disgusting bathrooms, do Spanish or English orientations, plus all the other clerical duties. Most likely you will have to go to the warehouse they are working with (because they never want to hire on site/on call personnel for this). On top of that you will also take terrible attitude and condescending behavior from the “manager” who loves to talk about himself for hours during “meetings” and also hateful attitude from the only other old lady that has been working there for a while. All for $12-$14/hr. That is why that office is ALWAYS short staffed. Worst experience ever.

On a typical day our shift will make quota for the day one of the best things about my particular shift is lots of the Table Leaders work together when one table is struggling to make that quota.  We break poly silicon down to customer spec, size and package it up to be shipped out. 
As a form of management I have learned how to deal with multiple personalities, how to get along with and train multiple people at a time. I have learned how difficult it can be to encourage others to work. Most of my co-workers are hard workers and when they see someone struggling they do their best to help or re-explain how to do the task properly. 
As for management some of them are hard to deal with at times. 
The hardest part of the job in reality is the hours. Working 6pm to 6am takes a toll on you. 
My favorite part of the job as a table leader is training someone on how to do the job. Teaching them how to find the defect and seeing them realize that they got it. They understand what they are looking at and how to take care of it.

I enjoyed the work - the environment was clean, people were friendly. HOWEVER - I felt that some where dis-honest in evaluations. Things change from day to day, which is acceptable, however when you are directed to be more detail oriented, and you do so, only to be told that you just need to rush people through - it's not acceptable in my opinion. My integrity was to do the job right the first time with minimal mistakes. The environment encouraged rush through, we'll catch the mistakes later. When my employment ended, I was given little reason as to why my hours went from 30 hrs a week to 40 hrs a week to being let go when all along was told what a great job I was doing and how much potential I had. There are too many variables - and the branch manager indicated that she "likes chaos". If you enjoy that type of environment, you would do well there. If not, this isn't the place to work for. I found dishonesty in treating clients and not being direct with them.

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