Pros
-Very nice coworkers (two staffing specialists [including me], the location manager, and the salesperson) -My manager, while kind of crazy and also severely overworked, was also generally supportive and did her best. -Had a work fridge to hold your lunch. -Most of the lights worked in the building.
Cons
-Severely understaffed on purpose by corporate. There were 2 of us handling several counties of workers. -PeopleReady primarily receives two kinds of workers: people at the lowest point in their lives, and people that are too incompetent/awful to keep a job for more than a week. (there were about 4-6 workers total that didn't fit into either of these categories. They were great.) Unfortunately, the latter group of people are more common, so the people in the former group have a harder time getting any work. -You will also be told to lie to workers, saying that there are plenty of jobs available when there actually aren't. You will have to give them false hope, some of them being people that can't afford their electric bills or feed their kids. You will (metaphorically) have to lead them along with a little fake carrot on a stick. What I did in these situations was NOT standard PeopleReady procedure, but if a worker brought up that they were in this kind of situation, I would direct them to community resources that could help them in those regards (food banks and the like). -If I recall correctly, there's a policy that workers are to be paid within 72 hours of completing a job. This isn't a secret. You can try as hard as you'd like to make that known to new workers, but there will always be plenty of people that don't get that. I finally quit when one of the workers called ~60 times during my shift, asking and threatening me for payment for his work performed the previous day, when I simply couldn't release the payment yet because I hadn't received confirmation from the client company that I was good to do so. That worker then drove over and sat outside my office window, glaring at me as I worked alone in the building. -The app that they have workers use is a total mess that hardly works, and they provided little training for our over-stressed branch when introducing the app. Our branch was also so overworked and understaffed, that none of us had time to even properly take the training on it, so it was a lot of investigation and trial/error when teaching new hires on how the app works. -With the stress we were under, we unsurprisingly got sick. Then it would be only ONE STAFFING SPECIALIST HANDLING DISPATCH AND JOBS FOR SEVERAL COUNTIES. The manager would generally step in when this would happen, but the manager was only human and had other responsibilities that needed to be addressed as well that would make taking over for the missing staffing specialist an impossible task, so there were times where there was only 1 person.
