Never trust recruitment agents 100%!

Had a 'good' job offer but will not be taking it up. The agent who linked me up is a liar, totally unprofessional and so desperate to close the deal, that not only am I pissed, I am pissed enough to want to complain about him to whichever government body is in charge of recruitment agents. 
 

So foolish of me to think just because he has a name from the Bible, he'll be honest and Christ-like. Oh boy am I never so wrong! Geez, I should have been reminded of that arrogant pompous punk Christian from season 2 of Master chef USA.

First time this agent called, he told me part of the job scope was to represent my company to bring travelers on board cruises to Europe, promote the facilities, and each trip would be 3 to 6 mths away from sunny Singapore. I thought the time away from SG was ridiculous, but let him send in my resume anyway.

Second time he called to let me know I'm short listed, I asked him to clarify the traveling times, because 3 to 6 mths IS ridiculous. He called the MD of the travel company, before he told me it was min 3 days and max 10 days per trip, and my job on board was to just PR with my travelers and ask hows everything and were they having fun. Simple no?

When I went for the interview, turns out my job scope was to promote cruise packages at roadshows, be in office to assist walk in customers, and the traveling part is only once a year to regional areas IF they think u are worth giving a free trip to. The European cruises? Yeah, maybe in a year or so time. And there's a queue for it. And no comm when you sell cabins. Only a yearly incentive IF sales target is met. Not very attractive anymore eh? 

How the hell can this nincompoop get the job details so wrong, when I can understand it within a 30 min interview??? Is he that stupid or am I too intelligent??? Or is he so desperate to close sales that he actually dares to put wrong information in the job portals to trick people to apply for the job? 

Boy was I pissed. But the MD is a really nice lady and I thought since I like the industry, I'll take up the challenge and the offer. Oh, did I mention he kept the fact that she can't pay my asking salary from me until she told me? He just wanted to get my butt to the interview asap.

Then today, she called me to confirm my start date next week. And told me Fri AND Sat was dress down days. I was like: "Sat?" And she goes: "Yes, Sat is alt half day". Which, the agent, has conveniently not bothered to tell me! AGAIN!

I declined the position. I explained that this agent has been painting the wrong scenario since day 1, and still dare to bug me to take it, when I've specified that the reason why I applied was because according to HIM, part of the job included traveling! And when I found out it wasn't so, I still felt I'll do well in this industry, even though I really dislike the working location. But I really don't like working on Sats, even if it's alternate Sats. And the main purpose why I applied for this job isn't there anymore to begin with. I told her I like her, and it won't be fair to her if I took up the job, and then resign after 2 months. 



Now she's pissed with him for wasting our time, and I'm pissed enough to tell her to inform him never to call me again or I might just swear at him.

Thanks to this imbecile, I have to job hunt again, I need to pay my phone bills and even if I starve, I have 2 cats to feed. Damn you, Isiah from Fesco. You better pray hard to God that I don't file a complaint against you. Idiot.