Like many other Portlanders, I started temping when I needed income while looking for a permanent job. I contacted Depaul after responding to a Craigslist ad for data entry jobs. After interviewing and testing with a woman named Lois, I was sent to a job the next day doing data entry at the county building. The supervisor there was completely rude and condescending and talked to me like I was 8 years old, and told me I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone else there or ask anyone else for help besides her. She also gave us scheduled breaks and lunches (at a data entry job?? give me a break! it's not a sweat shop). I was very frustrated, but I needed the work bad so I stuck it out for a couple days because I didn't want to walk out and burn a bridge with the temp agency... so for 3 days on every break and lunch I would repeatedly call Depaul industries, and the woman at the front desk would transfer me to a voice mail. NOBODY would take my call so that I could tell them I was unhappy and wanted to end the position, and nobody would help me at all. Finally on the 3rd day the supervisor was so mean that she made me cry - i worked out the rest of the day but didn't say anything when i left - when i got home there was a message on my machine from Lois saying she was ending my job and not to go back or contact anyone at the county. I called imediately and was transferred to Lois, expecting some kind of apology - after all, I did the professional thing and tried to contact them about my bad experience instead of just walking out on her - instead I was simply told that she had already talked to the supervisor and they had decided to end the job and that was that. \r
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Use them at your own risk, but if you go into the office be sure and grill them about how they treat their temps.
Cons: Terrible staffing recruiters who don't care anything about their temps
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