Client Review on Winston Resources, LLC

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I guess I shouldn't be surprised that this company's ratings reflects poorly on them. I was contacted by Karen and did not think that a singular person should be representative of an entire company. However, I now see that her actions and apparent incompetence is a direct result of a poor company and she is most likely a direct product of her environment.Karen contacted me first; I never made any submission to Winston's website nor had I applied to any jobs that they were involved with. The job in question was with Stony Brook University. I have handfuls of family from both sides that have attended SBU, so I liked that a job role relevant to me was revealing itself. It helped that I have a positive history with SBU as well.The problem was that Karen failed to give me much details. I felt a bit like I was pulling teeth just to get an answer. My main concern was not having a job description. When I finally received one, most of it was redacted. I already wasn't feeling good about the situation but decided to wait to hear more.I was called after the weekend by Karen telling me I had the job. No interview necessary. I've never had this occur in the history of my job search, nor when I was on the hiring side of the table. So I called SBU using the phone numbers on their website. A recruiter there kindly explained some of the information to me.This prompted Karen to call me back and she was highly upset that I reached out to them. I apologized because I had never used a temp agency and therefore did not understand the process in full but she insisted that she told me "ALL" of that already. She didn't. Failure to communicate and there I was apologizing to be nice. I don't know how many times she needed me to say I was sorry but she continued to yammer on about it. I knew right then and there that I would not continue my business with her or Winston Staffing.I wish it ended there but it did not. I told her that I would "Get back to her" about it because I still had the paperwork on my laptop. I called around to recruiters in different companies that I was interested in working with and then finally sent Karen an email simply asking her to withdraw me from consideration for the role with SBU. Earlier, before my email, Karen told me she'd be in the office until 5pm that day. She began to pelt my phone with calls every 20-40 minutes and well past 5pm (I have the call logs on my phone) and she never left a voicemail nor replied to my email. I guess she finally got it through her head that I lost interest because it was close to 6pm on Monday before the calls stopped and it is now almost 1pm on Wednesday and she is radio silent. Finally.Overall I would not recommend anyone signing up for Winston Staffing nor do I think anybody should take their call if they solicit you. It seems like from thumbing quickly through the reviews that there are a lot of other recruiters here like Karen, and I cannot believe that they were even capable of earning what is currently a 2.8 out of 5 rating.