New hires are rarely hired in direct as a Title Source employee. 99% of the time you are hired by Aerotek Temporary Staffing, a temp agency in the same building as Title Source. You are then placed at Title Source, usually into a position you have little to 0 experience in, because Title Source's processes & computer programs are so specific to their products.
Temporary employees make up at least 75% of the workforce. And even though most of the employees are temps & paid on avg. a low low $11.00-$12.00/ hour, you are never told when you will be eliminated.
If orders are low at some point during the workday & your department Team Lead is made aware of it, everyone starts to worry about who will be cut. Employees start gossiping about who they think is out and who they heard was fired the day before. Opinions on who is out, are formed by the amount of orders you did that day, compared to co-workers. Everyone knows how many orders you did because a report is emailed out every morning, to everyone in your department, with everyone's volume of work performed.
Absences suddenly do not matter. Dedication suddenly does not matter. The weeks you worked 80 hrs. and didn't get to see your family cause work was slammed, does not matter. Your knowledge of the business & the amount of effort you put in to understand the in's & out's of Titling, does not matter. The average orders you have done per day, compared to the others, MATTERS. It is the sole decision making tool.
Recently Title Source over hired, beginning in Dec. 2012, continuing into Feb. 2013, with 100's of new hires coming in each week, apparently following an unplanned rather large increase in orders.
But oops, 8 months later, after employees have dedicated themselves to Title Source, sometimes working 70+ hrs./ week or more, taking on more work by voluntarily training in other areas....you get a call from Aerotek stating that due to lack of work, your assignment has ended.
Sorry, please mail us your security badge & oh don't worry about your desk items, please don't come in & try to retrieve your personal items. We will ship it to you. Did I mention we cancelled your direct deposit too so you won't be paid this Wednesday as expected. Pick up your check next week at Security please. Don't you dare try and get on that elevator. Your not one of us any longer.
Thanks for the memories, have a good life!
