I'm home sick today, but I can answer questions about ours.
I've subbed for two different companies, and I can assure you that KES is by far the better choice. Our local office takes care of problems immediately, actually requires everyone to attend a training sessions before sending them into the classroom, and is very good at advocating for the sub when needed. Our pay is the same as the going rate, though Kelly managed to get us payraises this year, which was surprising to say the least.
As for their computer system, it's fairly easy to use, and if you refuse to use it, you can talk to a real person if you call their 800 number for the scheduling team. I've always had good luck with that.
I've been their employee for years now, going into my fourth school year with them, and I've been a writing coach in an alternative high school, a long term sub, a regular sub, and now I'm a teacher finishing up my teaching certificate in one of the areas I teach in (I'm salary for the hours I teach what I'm certified in, KES for the hours I don't). KES has helped me with all of that, gotten me good pay, and they even offer benefits (too expensive for me, but many subs get them).
As for the other company I worked for, they were flat-out incompetent and had no fracking clue what they were doing. It was scary, and when the county was looking at switching to them from KES, I raised all holy heck. Thank goodness they listened to me and other subs who had experience with both companies.
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