I’m currently unemployed after spending 2+ years on an assignment. Several other staffing agencies have been calling me wanting to present me for various assignments. One in particular agency has a job for me but they are asking for unreal information. My resume is full of contract jobs that go back many years and I’ve just listed the jobs not the agencies I’ve worked for. It’s never been a problem before until now. This agency needs me to give them a list of all agencies and assignments that I’ve worked on for the past 7 years. It took me a few days to gather that information based on the jobs on my resume. Once I gave them that info they now are saying that in order to go further with the assignment that I have been selected for they need my pay stubs and W2s from several jobs that I worked back in 2012. Yes, 2012. How in the world am I going to find pay stubs from that far ago and why do they need that? Again, I’ve spoken to a number of agencies over the past few days and have asked them these questions and they all have said that that’s unnecessary info. If they are presenting you for a job then where you worked in 2012 or even they salary you were making is not that important enough to prevent you from working on a new assignment. Is this a strange request for a new temporary assignment? Again, they are saying that they can’t move forward until I get them my W2s and pay stubs from a job back in 2012.