Hell yeah
I was resisting the temptation to have a bit of a rant about recruitment agencies, but I'll put a few things here now.

(Incidentally, are the vast majority of people with the word "Agent" in their job title useless fecktards? For Recruitment and Estate, it definately seems so.)

You're very right about the paying no attention to what you've actually done, and instead following their own little tickboxes about 'experience'. For example, for a long time I struggled to get office work, despite the fact I can use Word, Excel, Outlook etc., and am capable of typing large amounts of data into a spreadsheet accurately, so could do lowest level data entry at the very least. But because I didn't have 'Office Experience', I'm only good for manual jobs.

Also, please don't lie to me. "We're sending you to [wherever], it's for two days initially, but they say they may well take you on for longer." At [wherever]: "What? No, we just needed you while x was off ill." I don't mind covering when there's nothing else, I do mind you lot lying and making me look a bit of a tit for (apparently) completely misunderstanding the nature of the employment.

Finally: If I have told you (repeatedly) that I am limited to public transport, no I can't get out somewhere random not on the train network, or give someone a lift.

Oh, and if you want me to do a 6pm-6am night shift, fine, but please call me before 5:45pm. And then do the same thing the next three nights running. You twats.

As a disclaimer, the agency that got me my current job do seem to actually know what they're doing.
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