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Originally Posted by El Blanco

Temp agencies suck. They have you by the short hairs and let you know it.

And since all the fine upstanding white people are leaing the major cities, does that mean the property will be cheaper?

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Temp agencies -- 2/28/07

This may be the biggest scam of all time. Temp agencies. Offices that hook you up with crappy jobs, get $25/hour for your work, and then pay you $11/h. You still have to interview with the company who has the job opening. And for the privilege of this interview? That's right. A shitty office with three people in it jacks you for 60% of the money that your work brings in. And for what? The right to "network" (remember when "networking" was just meeting people and getting to know them, like... 10 years ago) with people who are offering shitty jobs that an ape could do. Fuck that, apes are above most of these jobs. Take an ape, get it all liquored up, put a football helmet on its head backwards, and watch it miraculously get the job done.

There are so many fun parts of a temp agency to shit on that I don't even know where to start the diarhea fest. One, no benefits. Oh sweet, so... in exchange for getting jacked for 60% of my pay, if I get sick, you basically tell me to go fuck myself. How about constant hounding if you need a day off. If you get sick, they want proof because they assume that you're going on an interview. Yeah at my first temp assignment this dude Sean sprained his ankle and of course our temp agency representative Pam (think Charles Barkley with a blonde afro) is calling him asking him if he was really at an interview. Yeah cause it's that important. Let me wear a cast to work so I can interview for all the REALLY good jobs being thrown around in today's job market. But this isn't close to as fun as the way they want you to act about the job. Look, you're paying me $11 for filling in a spreadsheet with info, and you're getting $15 for having 3 employees in a shitty office with phone numbers to HR departments. When I get the job done, I'm not gonna ask you if there is anything else I can do. At a job making 60K at a law firm? Sure. At your shitty temp job that pays a fifth of what a garbage-man makes? Blow me.

What's especially hilarious is how they want you to act about the miniscule pay. The last assignment I got paid $11/hour and the lady tells me that on the phone, which is fine, she's being honest. Then she busts out with "but when it goes permanent the pay is excellent." So obviously unable to breathe due to the excitement I manage the words "oh yeah, what is it!?" (Think Ike Clanton in Tombstone). To which she replies, "When it goes permanent it pays 30K!" Like someone is shooting gallons of helium through her ass with rocketgun. She was so excited I almost wondered if her boyfriend paid her a visit while she was calling me. 30K huh? Is that what a B.A. from a Big Ten school and 2 years of law school gets nowadays? Don't knock me over with so much money that I start to feel pressured about living up to such an opportunity. To put this in perspective, the average high school graduate in 1973 made 42K in today's dollars. It's hilarious to think that with my education in 1973, I'd probably have started at about 200K in today's dollars and I'd be fighting off the job offers. Today? 30K from a temp agency and they want me to be ecstatic about it.

Oh but here is the best part. The employer loves it. Basically the temp agency is doing you from behind and the employer sticks it in your mouth. Because yeah they have to pay 25/h for you, but when you go permanent, do you get 25/h from them? No. Because you make $11 as a temp, they feel that you should jump for joy when they offer you $15. So now THEY get a discount. Why don't you start me at $15 and stick a broom in my ass for the first day.

And it wouldn't even be so bad if temp agencies weren't EVERYWHERE. Go look in your town. There's probably 5-7 if you live in the average suburb like Schaumburg, IL, maybe more. Go look on craigslist. Yeah some will let you know it's a temp-perm position. Most will not. We really should be allowing middlemen for a job market that is already so loaded with lucrative offers? What's next? A $50 a week fee to an agency that allows you to contact the temp agencies? A bat to the nuts just for the "privilege" of paying that fee? See, if this is what "getting your education" means, then the second grade teacher I had could have spared her speech and told me to become an auto mechanic straight out of high school.

Conclusion? Temp agencies should be required to have a stick figure bent over a table somewhere in their sign.

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