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by RIAA. linky


The rest of that story concerns a "remove copyrighted material" order that was made in error to a professor.
But that is unimportant.


What concerns me is the apparent disdain for temporary employees, as a whole. The contradiction inherent in hiring temps has always bothered me, and I have steadfastly refused to work as one. From a certain point of view, any job is "temporary," but I'm referring to the thousands of abused, "disposable people."

To me, RIAA is saying "look, this person was a temp. A temp for Pete’s sake, are we surprised there was a screw up?"
This attitude bothers me. If a temp is presupposed to make more mistakes, wouldn't it make more sense to hire permanent employees? With them, maybe the work quality would be improved. Companies are always screaming about quality improvement and cost cutting. How can the costs be cut, in the long term, by people who couldn't give a shit less? How can a manager speak while looking in the eyes of a person s/he treats as a placeholder? The inhumanity here is startling.

I hear the propaganda that temp jobs can be useful for the employee who is looking for "variety." Stupid question, but has any one here had a positive temp experience? Does the theory work out for anyone? I'd like to hear about it.

The theory I'm supporting is that companies should cut this temp crap. I'd actually support making temp work illegal. I think temp work has such a number of negative aspects that it crosses the line into human rights violations.

They have created an entire class of worker with no loyalty, no care at all for the work, no regard for one's work as valuable. They destroy self respect, and stain the employer / employee pact.

A human has the inherent right to explore and improve oneself through his work. It is the responsibility for an employer to support that, temp work doesn't by its very nature.

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and the best bit is, temp workers are ideal to the company. you can hire them when there is excessive amounts of work, and fire them when you don't need them. plus they don't get those annoying benefits that normal staff get.. job security, holidays, sickies, etc.

guthmund

I was a temp worker for a number of years. It wasn't about 'variety' I assure you, it was more about getting a foot in a door and find a permanent job.

I think all workers are held in such disdain. Upper Management looks to Middle Management with loathing. (Thisis the best we have?) and Middle Management, in turn, holds the rest of us peons in contempt.

Today's motivation in hiring seems to be the excessive amount of workers out there to fill any one vacancy. Hire Idiot #1 till he screws up, which he's bound to do, then hire Idiot #2....repeat.

I know when I was management in fast food, God, that was terrible, the idea was any idiot can fry a burger. Don't worry about keeping them happy or content, there are 30 more applicants on my desk from today alone.....

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Shokan

Im currently working as a temp, in order to get my foot in the door. Its difficult to find work as it is, and this is the only way I can pay my bills. I, for one, care about what I do. Its called a strong work ethic. And if you dont care about what you do, theres 50 more temps that are more than willing to take your place. Its just stupid not to try to do a good job. The place where im at only hires through a temp service anyway, and Im looking to get fulltime work.

The reason places hire temps is because its cheap. Say thier regular employees make 15 an hour. They give the temp service 12 an hour for a worker and that worker gets 9 an hour out of it. Its about cost cutting, and like I said before, the temps that fuck around and not do thier work, arent there for long. Theres people where I work now that view the temps as "worthless", and its the most annoying thing ever. I personally work harder than most of thier regular employees, and thats why they keep asking for me specifically whenever they need a worker.

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alpha phi

I started at my job as a temp.
It is the only way to get hired at most places worth working at.
After 5 monthes of working like a robot, I finally got hired.
Most are not so lucky.
I've seen many excellant workers get laid off.
Discarded like trash is more like it.
Promised a chance of full time employment "if they do good enough"
In the last 3 years my employer has laid off fulltime union workers
3 times. we have hired only 2 people from over 30 temps a year
Useing temps to weed out the desireable workers from the losers in a union shop is most nessasary!
Not hireing the good ones is a shame.
the current economy plays a huge role in all of this.
but big buisness could play more fair, or at the least honest.

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Cynthetiq

Temps are a necessary evil. There are whole companies that provide it as a service, and some of those companies have temps that are full time employees of the temp company. I know because I was one. I had full benefits after my first 120 hours of service. There are some temp companies that have you come into their office at 8:30am and wait untiil 11:00am and you get paid a full day, just to be at the ready in case someone needs a temp.

I was an executive assistant temp, hired only for SVP and above positions. Places where not just any temp can fit the bill. I tried this to get my foot in the door, but it did not do anything but get me some networking for consultant stuff setting up networks for their homes. So I did benefit from it.

As a hiring manager, temps are somtimes needed for workload issues. It takes too long to go through the process of job position proposal to HR, signing off from management, then the hiring process. This could take weeks if not months. A Temp company has already done that I can pick up the phone and have a quallified person come here within 20 mintues.

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hrdwareguy

I have had 3 temp jobs. 2 of them were temp to hire, the other was for the state and they had a hiring freeze and couldn't hire anyway. The 2 jobs that were temp to hire were both I.T. related jobs.

We hire temps every year for our busy season, about 3 months. Just about everyone that works here has started as a temp in this time and we decided to keep them on. That how I got this job 5 years ago.

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