I agree with one earlier post about Elite Staffing leaving him high and dry. I should have composed a review late November when I was let go or December 2024. Elite Personnel VP contact NHG and manager EH contacted me about a Contract Travel Accounting position for a large union International Brotherhood Teamsters IBT near the Capitol downtown DC. It was a temp to hire staffing assignment and looking to start Monday August 12. Interestingly, I just relocated from NYC July 31, 2024. I had to work 500 hours to become permanent. I already interviewed three other staffing recruiters and a Silver Spring MD direct hire HR employee which they were stalling with pending next steps in the interview process so I prioritized my time and took IBT staffing agency to survive. Although the pay rate was $29 hour and it was non-negotiable per NHG so I had no choice. She “lowballed” me since my salary was $65,000 from my previous NYC local employment for nearly seven years. My duties include verifying and auditing employee travel expense reports and applying LM2 schedule for accurate coding using SAP Concur software and processing travel-related vouchers on Microsoft Dynamics XL formerly Solomon Edwards software. I was grateful to learn two new software SAP Concur and Microsoft Dynamics. I loved data entry processing travel related vouchers since it keeps me busier than verifying expense reports which caused me to doze off occasionally. Travel Accounting manager TB I thought I worked well with signed my weekly timesheets mostly. This racist Travel Accounting supervisor JF was and is arrogant and indifferent toward temp employee as a Black male and normally out of the office a lot leaving less work for me to do. JF and I were not on the best terms. The other four other Travel Accounting employees trained me a certain way to verify and audit expense reports. I explained to him during two performance evaluations September 17 and November 1 for the reason for my swift delivery and attempted to avoid careless errors and I acknowledged my breakdown to him and to TB. JF applauded my data entry and admin related work with limited and no errors. I expressed oftentimes sitting at my desk unproductive and idle for a long time whether I am working slow or fast. He and TB admitted about some down times which expense reports aren’t coming regularly. Staffing agency RHI sent a black woman temp to handle back logs for both Vietnamese permanent employees out of the office in late October. She and I share the same birthday, and she has extensive accounting background including travel accounting experience from a large NW DC university. JF asked me to train her on processing travel expense vouchers and she acted pompous and kept interrupting me in the process. She asked some of the questions repeatedly and cosplaying from making careless mistakes and she did tasks her. She implied JF and another white female temp employee explained the best way opposed to mine so I just ceased training her and talking to her. Their ice was and always colder than mine. I refused to work in a spiritual and gender warfare toxic environment feeling disrespected by her and the co-workers. I am beginning to feel uneasy working with the temp and how she tried to undermine and sabotage me along with JF especially with my 500 staffing assignments are set to expire November 25. I addressed my concerns to TB. Finally, NHG called to inform me Wednesday November 27 to confirm my last day since the Accounting Manager TB and/or JF informed her I was “frustrated” with the lack of consistent and regular work and my refusal to accept permanent offer since they pay once a month according to TB and other employees. Also, I refused to work in a toxic environment feeling disrespected by HR, cafeteria staff, “raccoons” security, and many union employees.

Disappointing. I started off with Elite Personnel in April of 2019. I had been out of work since December. After a long evaluation and short Skype interview with this Temp Agency, they started me off doing Data base entry with Wellness Corporate Solutions in Downtown Bethesda. The job was very tedious. Hours and hours of endless scanning and counting through hundreds of papers. After 3 weeks I was suddenly let go from the job position without any notification. Elite Personnel just pulled me out of the the job saying “it wasn’t good fit” for me anymore. In less than a week they started me off with another assignment in Cyrstal City VA working in Facilities Department. Job was great but only lasted for two weeks. I was filling in for someone going on vacation. A staffer from AIR in Crystal City was leaving and were looking to fill the position temporarily. Elite Personnel offered me the job but at last minute they notified me saying that the job had been cancelled. Since then I have tried to call them several times and just get a response saying “We have not yet found a job that matches your skill set sorry for inconvenience.” It has now almost been 5 months that I have been out of work and have not heard anything regarding job opportunities from the Elite Personnel Temp agency. Be careful working with them because eventually they will just leave you “High And Dry! Very disappointed.

I have worked with several temporary agencies in the Greater D.C. area since I finished graduate school and have found Elite to the best in terms of finding temporary positions in Maryland and the Greater D.C. area. They helped me find several temporary and a temporary-to-permanent assignment in the fields of human resources, administration, and marketing. They are a great company with a wonderful staff and have the best follow up of any agency that I have worked through. They are highly recommended, especially for those individuals that are very early in their career and need work experience or for those individuals interested in trying out a new career path.