I need your advice/sugestion re: Temp to Perm Job.

I would cut my losses and keep on temp working while job hunting...Temp jobs are great and quite often they will hire you on if they have an opening...hang in there!

I worked Temp a lot of years, so I understand what you're talking about. First I think you should reread your contract/agreement or anything you put your signature on with the Temp Agency. They are still your employer right now. It might even be in real small print on the back of your time sheet. The temp agencies I worked for did not have ANY time limit on their hiring procedures. Where after you've worked 12 or 18 weeks for a company that company can then hire you without having to pay the agency's fee! I personally get bad vibes when a company is trying to go around having to pay out the agency fee. The agency placed you in there. The company hasn't yet had to look at resumes or interview people or pay out money in benefits for the position you're working. There might be liability towards you as well if you try to go around a legal clause the Agency has in place, regarding payment of their fee, if a company wants to hire someone from temp to perm. I think you can still approach whoever you report to or whoever told you you'd have to wait 12 weeks, by calmly inquiring what you're status is. If they give you a negative or put off answer, don't tell the company you're planning to move on, if they don't hire you. Then you can make better decisions based on that answer, but right now you don't know one way or the other. If you decide to move on, check with your agency first. Make sure they've got other jobs to send you on. If things are slow for them though you still have income coming in if you do stay at that company for awhile. Or you might need to sign up with more than one temp agency, and increase your options of available jobs. You also mentioned you weren't happy about your co-workers complaining. That should also tell you something. They're not going to change, if you do get hired there full time. So then you have to decide if you can cope with or ignore or adjust to their complaining if you do get hired there. But if you're not that happy about it now, are you going to be happier about it later?

It sounds like you need to talk to someone in Human Resources about this to see where you stand. Maybe they just assumed that since you were there six weeks longer than expected that everything is fine and there's no reason to rock the boat. In any event, it wold be in your best interest to get in touch with someone to see what the deal is.

Well if I were you I would start looking for another permanent job now. If this company weren't prepared to take you on immediately and pay the Agency fee, which they would have agreed to when they contacted the Agency in the first place, then it saounds like they may be a bit dodgy anyway, - otherwise why try and get out of paying the agreed fee? Sounds like they are stringing you, and the Agency along, and I wouldn't want to work there permanently at all. By all meas say there to earn some cash while you are looking for a proper, permanent job, but then as soon as you find them, then I would walk out of there, and tell them why. Good luck anyway!