You are analyzing this job thing too hard. Of course they will pay you. Take the job, go to work, find out if you enjoy it, quit worrying that they are messed up, and if despite "acting as if" everything will be fine it isn't, then just quit. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It is not your responsibility to get the placement people off their backs, nor is it your responsibility to go to bat for the people that located the job. They can sort that out themselves.
Good luck T. Sorry for being Mr. Fix-it, but you need to look at this job like you look at a R. Nothing is perfect, but you can still work to make it better.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. Theodore Roosevelt
