Terrible treatment of co-workers. - Account Manager Randstad Employee Review

1.0
11 Mar 2019
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Pros

I spent two years at Randstad in the Toronto office. I got some great work experience here and was given a solid opportunity to excel. Also had an amazing mentor.

Cons

Hard to know where to start. I luckily got through my two years unscathed and ended up leaving for a much better job. However the way my coworkers were treated by management was appalling . From terrible mind games, crazy pressure, constantly being told you're going to lose your job to straight up racist name calling. Really shocking stuff. Middle management and upper management only care about money. Don't believe all the fake LinkedIn posts about building you up as a person and human forward. They're cold cruel people. Not sure how some of them can go home to their families and look them in the eye and act like they're good people.

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Cons

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1.0
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Recruiter was responsive at first, and the team I spoke with at the client company seemed professional and genuinely kind.

Cons

Here’s a more detailed “Cons” you can use and tweak: Cons: I went all the way through onboarding for a contract role, spent a full day last week chasing down and uploading sensitive documents (including my passport), and was told I’d be starting this week. Then, at the last minute, I got a single text saying I “didn’t pass” a third‑party ID check — with no explanation of what supposedly failed and no formal notice or report to review. As an American citizen using a valid passport, it’s really disturbing to have a job pulled over an opaque automated screening and to be told “other factors” were flagged without anyone willing or able to say what they were. Even after repeatedly asking, I was given no more than a generic privacy policy and bounced between contacts, which feels extremely careless with my time, my livelihood, and the very private identity data they collected. Best‑practice guidance for background checks says candidates should get clear written notice and a chance to understand or dispute issues before a job is taken away; that absolutely did not happen here.

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