Spherion Staffing Shady Staffing Firm lies to their employee, then calls and harasses them! Sterling Forest New York

I got laid off from spherion with zero notice. Nobody returned calls or emails, but there was a reason. The last 3 contacts, including the region account manager got s**t-canned because they lost the ExxonMobil account. They use 20 vendors and laid off 30% of the contractors. All vendors were asked to reduce their rate including Spherion. They didn't drop the rate, so me and several others got the axe. I was also told I was on the so-called "redeploy" list. That was months ago. I have in my Spherion contract a clause stating vacation time would be accruded as I went through the year. In my 11th month, I got canned and Spherion refuses to give me my accruded vacation time. I knew I was up s**t-creek when Spherion sent me to the wrong Exxon location for my interview and had me fill out gobs of paperwork over 5 trips to the local Spherion office. Then I went through Spherion recruiter after Spherion recruiter because they keep firig these people. In fact, I have went through no less than 3 payroll admins at Spherion. At least I got to sleep with the first one! That was the only Spherion perk I received.....

As of today, 5/30/2008, Spherion still has not sent my last paycheck. I also have not heard back from the wage and hour department of NY State.

I did file for unemployment, but since I worked in NJ , I would get more $$ filing with NJ, then I can file with NY later if needed. I do not think I was a security risk, but something was definitely fishy. All I wanted from my manager at IBM was to at least say "I'm sorry" for giving me wrong information. I did a lot from them and I feel they owe me that much.

My main point is this: If I were a black employee and they did this, I bet it would have been on the news that night.

Don,

I used to do a lot of contract and consulting work, much of it for large corporations. First, I learned to never count on temp-to-perm. It is nearly always temp-to-unemployed-without-notice.

In many of the larger companies there is a prejudice on the part of the full-time employees against the temporaries, consultants, and contractors. The full-timers often resent the fact that outsiders are often given the "fun" jobs, like designing and implementing new systems. The full-timers do what they can to sabotage the temps.

I suspect that someone at IBM accused you of being some sort of security risk. You will probably never know who it was or what they said you did. Their corporate culture is apparently that the word of a full-time employee is so convincing that there is no need to give you notice or hear your defense.

Perhaps the only way you will ever find out what happened is to apply for unemployment insurance and hope it is denied. Then you can have a hearing where the employer will have to state what you were accused of.