Volt... The company that treats you like a number.
I spent years working for Volt and never missed a day on all jobs with them.
I was looking for work with Nintendo in Washington and found out that they were hiring through Volt Temp Services, a company that I had worked for over the last previous 5 years or so off and on. They would discard employee's records after a year if an employee hadn't worked any days in a years time.
I had worked within the last year at the Volt Services Chula Vista office in California within the last year so I gave that information to a staff worker at the Volt office in Tacoma, WA.
She got the records from the office in Chula Vista and called me to say that Volt would not hire me because a staff worker there put on my record that I had two no-shows. I told her that that was a lie. I had only worked one job at that office and talked about where my last check could be sent as I left the state after that job. The report about my two no-shows was for the following week after I had said my good bye.
It sounds apparent that a personnel lady from Volt (the one accusing me of having two no-shows at a time when I was no longer working for them) was terminated for some unspecified reason, but I was told that Volt Services was taking her word over mine because "she worked for them". This is actually what a guy there told me. I started working with Volt Services sometime in the late 90s.
I said the the staff worker in Tacoma that I would call the office in Chula Vista and figure out what the report was about. She told me that it didn't really matter what I found out because it wouldn't make any difference.
I called the Volt Services office in Chula Vista and asked about their report on me for two no-shows. I was told that this incident had occurred at the beginning of the week after Easter weekend. This was after I had taken a 2 or 3 day job with Sanyo which ended on Good Friday.
On Good Friday, I had talked with a lady from Volt Services there whom I had turned my work slip into after work and told her that I was taking off that weekend and going back to North Dakota to work on the family farm. I talked to her about arrangements for getting my check. I noticed on my way back to the Volt office that my boss at Sanyo had not checked any of the boxes indicating whether he wanted another worker to return or not. I pointed this fact out and said that she might want to call them back because my boss had offered me more work (which I declined because of my commitment to return to my brother's farm after that weekend.)
I ended up going down to La Bufadora, Mexico that Easter weekend with a friend and returned Sunday afternoon. I started my trip back to North Dakota around noon a couple of days later on Tuesday. I was around the house where I was staying after my return from Mexico that weekend and there were no calls from Volt after I arrived Sunday afternoon up until tuesday afternoon at the time I left. The answering machine was always on as usual.
The personnel guy from Chula Vista told me that the no-shows were for the Monday and Tuesday after Easter weekend. As I said, there were no calls from Volt on those days and there shouldn't have been any as I told the lady that I talked to on Friday that Friday was my last day and I made arrangements to either get my last check early or have it sent to the address that I was going to.
So around 8 months later I am telling this personnel guy in Chula Vista that I could not have any no-shows if I never got any calls from them and I had informed them that I was no longer available before the no-shows. He said that what I said didn't matter because the lady that listed the no-shows worked for them so what she said was the truth. I then asked to speak with her so that I could clear this up. He said that he couldn't do that because she no longer worked with them.
I suspected that what this was about then was that Sanyo likely wanted to hire another worker permanently and that this lady from Volt never called back to verify that they wanted another worker and got in trouble for not checking back with them and then she conveniently put the blame on me knowing that I had left for the Midwest.
So, I then asked the guy from Volt to call the warehouse boss at Sanyo and talk to him as I had talked to him about leaving that Easter weekend. He said that he couldn't do that and basically decided that I could not work for Volt Services again no matter what proof I might come up with.
I drove down to Chula Vista, CA later to talk to them personally, but the Volt Services office is no more in Chula Vista.
My situation here is that I have been trying to get my foot in the door on some type of alternate employment away from working on my brother's farm in the spring and summer. I work for years building a solid work history only to have the company I have worked for flush all of my dedication down the drain on the say of one of their office staff people making up a story to cover her ass and Volt Services telling me that they have to take her word over mine because she worked for them.
This essentially wipes out my work history with Volt and also destroyed any chance and hopes of getting hired with Nintendo after I put in a lot of time filling out Nintendo's application and tests.
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