I've worked for RPh On the Go off and on since 1996, and the last time was the job I had in the summer of 2011. I have never had to sign a non-compete clause, and in fact have worked at places that hired through them, using the agency as a way to see if a person was a good fit for the job. Other agencies may not do it this way.
And if you can fog a mirror and have an active license, ROTG will hire you. I have heard some doozy stories about other pharmacists who have worked for them.
The best was the critical access hospital whose per diem before me was a 50-something woman who had only one tooth and a peculiar body odor the techs couldn't identify, and constantly talked about Julia, who was back at the hotel. They assumed that Julia was her girlfriend, which didn't matter to them, but then they found out that Julia was her dog! 😳 After I had been there several weeks, they told me about her, and on the first day, when I came in, they had said to each other, "She has all her teeth!" 😀
There was another at an independent rural pharmacy where the owner, who was a divorced dad himself, said that their previous per diem asked to be paid in cash so he wouldn't have to report the income to the child support authorities. This owner said, "I am not getting involved in your personal problems" and did indeed pay him through the agency. I had followed this guy enough times (although I never met him) to know exactly who he was talking about. On a very sad note, I recently Googled that pharmacy owner, who is now about 70 years old but still owns that store, and found out that he'd been arrested for, shall we say, associating with teenage girls. His biggest defender was his ex-wife, the mother of his children, who wondered if he maybe had early Alzheimer's or something like that. 🙁
I made sure to tell my BFF, who lost his job on Friday along with 3 other Wags pharmacists in his area, about ROTG. If the interview he had yesterday doesn't amount to anything, he may sign on with them if they have any work for him.
p.s. My own favorite ROTG story involved myself. I lost my job at the hospital in March 2010, and several months later, I got a call from ROTG asking if I could work overnights at that hospital, starting immediately. My guess as to which overnighter was fired, BTW, was wrong.
