i was singed on to the poole one they wer very good to start off with gave me work ... they over me one job told me what it was and that got there and got told i was sitting next to a toilt for 12 hours a day ... i didnt not end up doing the hole week .. they said it not your fault you left and that .. they said they would have work for me agen ... waited next thing i no they said my fuckin v5 or wat ever it is in post didnt ring or nothing to say i was fired ..... i would nt rekon mend working for them and they still owe me money

i joined the manchester branch of best connection last when i joined the staff were very rude and did not seem to know what they were doing anyway i was offered work and accepted i worked night shift with them for 9 months sometimes doing 60 hours a week without a day off i was phoned a 4 hours before a shift a week before christmas (december 2012)and told not to return to the job when i asked why i was told not to go back they said theydidnt need a reason totally pathetic. i was very close to going to my branch and commiting multiple murders but decided not as was not worth it luckily i had another part time job feel sorry for the other people theydid this to. DO NOT USE THIS AGENCY STAY AWAY!!!!

I registered with Best Connection in Newcastle for Industrial work and it was a shambles from start to finish. I was interviewed by a 'consultant' named Paula who seemed more interested in herself and telling me how young she looked for her age, very professional start!! (She looked OLDER than her age!!) but she dressed like a 20yr old, embarrassing. I was offered work a week or so later and took the job, I was told a pay rate and when the money would be in the bank (The following Friday which is the norm with agencies) When I finally did get paid 2 weeks later the pay rate was lower than I had been told, I called the office to speak with Paula but she was not there, I got to speak to Eric the Branch Manager... WOW, MANAGER?!?! He couldn't manage to fart on a diet of baked beans!! He was hopeless and didn't have a clue. The whole experience was terrible from my interview with Old Paula to my converstion with squeeky Eric... DO NOT USE THIS AGENCY!!!!

I Signed up with Best connection Chesterfield after seeing them Advertising Jobs on the Jobcentre website.They sign you up & tell you about the Job,though when it come to sending you to do it,its a different matter.The (so called Consultant) Byron Scott should write fiction Books!,he tells you a compendium of Lies and pretends to care,when really he just wants you to be another number for him to ring when he's desperate.Unless your wanting to get messed about and sit at home waiting for the phone to ring.....STAY WELL AWAY.

Their office in Portsmouth is terrible. The way they responded to me was absolutely unacceptable when I telephoned to find out about my pay slip and the miss-payments. I started working in Royal mail for this agency from 15/12/2011 and didn't have any night off. 3 nights 8 hours and 4 nights 12 hours. the first 4 nights I worked on Thursday (15/12/11) 8 hours, Friday(16/12/11) 8 hours Saturday(17/12/11) 8 hours and Sunday(18/12/11) 12 hours and I was just been paid 22.5 hours. The lady who I talked to today neither admitted her mistake in my payslips nor she provided me with any evidence or proper explanation. the just didn't pay me. as simple as that. ====================

Absolutely AWFUL!!! this agency is terrible! the staff are horrible and unprofessional! this agency should be renamed THE WORST CONNECTION. If you plan on going to the Earl's Court branch, DON'T BOTHER, the people there are morons! especially the manager Tom Meakin, he's a con man, he will smile in your face for you to sign up to the agency, but once you've signed up and start working, he calculates what you are suppose to be paid all wrong, basically he steals your hard earned money, he pockets too much money and gives you little. When you try and ask him about it, he gets very angry and doesn't want to know. DO NOT GO TO THIS AGENCY, THE ARE FRAUDSTERS!!

was called out to cover a shift. was told that there could be more shifts available. did what was asked. did not hear from them, then when I rang up to ask why i had not been paid, i was told they would ring back, they did not. I rang a couple of days later and they were rude to me saying it was my fault, (they do the time sheets) I have not been paid so will not do any more work for them they have riped me off.

The couldn`t care less , it appears you need to have points on your licence before they will even speak to you . A total waste of time , they don`t appear to have any jobs,just speak about them !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I worked on several contracts with the Birmingham branch of Best Connections and found the whole time (about a year and a half) to be totally stressful.

On starting the staff was polite and professional and seemed keen on getting me in to work I at this time put this down to them having my best interests at heart but soon learned I was just a money making machine for them. There was several times when I was told that a contract would be 3 months plus only to get on the job and find out it was a day or two when calling to question my advisor during these contracts he would not return my calls and would get staff to say he was out of the office. There was many times where I would be out of work for numerous days and weeks being told to call each morning at 9am to see what work was available if there was work available I was expected to locate and get to a job within an hour often most of the work was on the other side of town and being from Birmingham they was not easy to get to. I finally lost my will to be treated like this and when telling my advisor that I no longer wished to work for Best Connections I was greeted with being told I was lazy and that I would not be offered another contract followed by some very vulgar language before he hung up. It surprised me when 3 days later another advisor called me back saying I had been recommended by my advisor and would I like to start work tomorrow... As you can imagine I turned this offer down. If you work for Best Connections expect to be mistreated.

the warrington branch in particular andy are very rude on the phone not to mention very unprofessinal, was told i would be starting on sunday following fridays induction then i was told it will defo be tuesday and to come down to the agency on monday to recieve my hi viz vest etc , i called on monday to be confronted with an extremley rude Andy who ended up hanging up on me because i accused him of being unproffesinal and not liking his tone,this agency is by FAR the most unprofessinal i have ever encounted i would never work for them nor would i reccomend them to freinds or collegues 0/10

i have worked for the agency for a couple of months, and to be honest with you i have never worked in an environment with full of nice people, the staff at the best connection in Staines are just fantastic and they will help anyone in need of a job.
i have read alot of reviews regarding this agency and i 100% completely disagree.
i had been unemplyed for a while and i spoke to the agency and i got offered a job straight away. I have already recommend the agencies to my friends and i would recommend to more people. if you need help they will give it to you straight. once again it's lovely working with people that care.
Sophie

I worked for this agency in a warehouse environment with the bristol office. On my first day, i was placed in a team of about 8 people all of which were non english speaking. I was told that i would have a minimum of 37 hours a week there as the pay was poor i could just make ends meet. Without any warning the hours dropped and i found myself doing 2-3 days a week. On 1 or 2 occasions i drove the 40 minute drive in only to be told that the agency had been informed that there was no work and was sent home. The pay was somtimes wrong and they never even mentioned that i was entitled to holiday pay. I only found out that the contract had run it's course when i turned up for work one day and the shift manager sent us all home. I went back to best for some other work and they offered me 1 day a week, so i was better off on the dole. The agency rang me up and asked me to do the odd 1 day a week, when i informed them that i was on jobseekers allowance and needed full time work to come off the dole, they replied " NO ONE EVER CHECKS. YOU WON'T GET CAUGHT". Very aggressive office staff as well as they were not happy at the fact that i had said no.

I met a guy standing outside the office who claimed that he had not been paid for 5 WEEKS.

Do not touch this agency with a barge pole.

I have worked for the best connection for 10 months with the same comapny on a more or less permanant basis never been in trouble then one morning i had a call from best telling me that the company no longeer wanted me and i was not to go there again I know its not because there is no longer any work because they are still advertising in the local job centre I asked what i had done wrong and i was told they were not given a reason i know the managers of the particular company and they did not know why i was no longer required and they were fed up with non english speaking staff being supplied one night out of 40 agency staff only 2 were english speaking

Got offered a job in a Food Produce company, processing the waste, and was told that if I didnt like it, I could cancel straight away with no notice needed. I thought OK, I'll do it then as long as I can cancel if I wish. After 1 day shuvveling peelings all day, and realising that I would be doing 55 hour weeks doing this due to faulty equipment that always breaks down, outdoors in rain, snow or shine, I decided to cancel. They got snotty on the phone, even though I apologised and was genuinely sorry, and refused to offer me work again. I never got paid for that day, even though they stated that they would, and every phonecall I made got nothing but excuses from them.