This could make me unpopular

O.K, this may be a little bit of a rant but it really has to be said...

I deal with some fantastic recruitment sites who really have on the ball marketing teams who are damn good at what they do, when they ask for something to be done it gets done and when I ask them for the same courtesy it is reciprocated.

So why, in the name of god do, so many people decide to hire in ad agencies who don't know their arse from their elbow? I can think of 2 really great ad agencies that I deal with (just in case you were wondering I don't deal with any recruitment advertising agencies... breathe a sigh of relief) and I can think of at least 4 who's staff would be better employed in the window of Marks and Spencer as mannequins. To cap it all they manage classic mistakes like double booking, sending entire schedules over (thanks for that, I now know what ALL my competitors are charging and I'm sure you've done the same to them, what happened to discretion?), forgetting ads are running and using phrases like "really? I didn't know we were using you". Come on people, it's not hard.

Sorry, rant over. Normal service will be resumed shortly.