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09 September 2006

Return of the return of the return of the SHOUTING THREAD! J_P: Why can't you hire me?
Employer A: Because you're a temp.

→[More:]Employer B: Why didn't employer A hire you? Were there performance problems?
J_P: No. They didn't hire me because I was a temp.

Employer C: So why didn't employers A and B hire you?
J_P: *simmers*

FUCK YOU, YOU SIMPERING, COWARDLY PETIT-BOURGEOISE SHITS! FUCK THE WHOLE MEDIOCRE BUNCH OF YOU! FUCK YOUR FAKE LIBERALISM! FUCK YOUR PSEUD0-SENSITIVY! YOU'RE CHEATING ME OUT OF A CAREER AND A FUCKING LIFE. IF I HAD TEN MINUTES LEFT TO LIVE, I'D SPEND IT WITH MY HANDS AROUND ONE OF YOUR NECKS!

I DON'T EVEN THINK OF YOU AS HUMAN. YOU'RE JUST ECONOMIC UNITS. YOUR ONLY PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO BUY USELESS SHIT TO KEEP THE ECONOMY GOING. AND THEN, WHEN YOU GET OLDER, YOU SHIT OUT A PAIR OF EQUALLY USELESS BRATS TO KEEP THE RETIREMENT SYSTEM GOING. THE BODY OF HUMAN CULTURE IS AS FOREIGN TO YOU AS THE DARK SIDE OF THE FUCKING MOON.

EVERY TIME I FLUSH THE SHITTER, I GET RID OF MILLIONS OF MICROORGANISMS MORE WORTHY OF LIFE THAN YOU.

post by: jason's_planet at: 14:32 | 9 comments

Someone needs some junk food and cable TV. Breathe, breathe.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 09 September | 15:23

Oh, thank you, TPS.

I'm breathing. I feel much better now. I was just blowing off steam.

posted by jason's_planet 09 September | 15:48

Employers typically have a contractual agreement to pay off the temp company to permanently hire a temp employee. This can be as much as 20% of the potential employee's wages plus benefits (or much more in the case of professional temps).

Often this is cost prohibitive, if the temp employee especially is unskilled or has "general" (i.e, fungible) skills, if their reason for going with temps is fluctuating need for the additional employee(s).

Explain this to employer C as: "The only reason they gave for not hiring is that I was temp employee; the payoff would have been prohibitive."

posted by orthogonality 09 September | 22:16

JP - here's a story for you.

I am also a temp, and get this: I'm doing a State job better than the Union person they're hiring to do it. In fact, I'm doing it so well that they want me to stay just long enough to TEACH the Union person,who has sub-par English and computer skills, to do the job THE SAME WAY I do.

I'm ready when the revolution comes. Hell, I may even start it. Or start something. I feel you, brother, man, do I feel you.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 10 September | 12:05

Orthogonality -- Yeah. I know about all that. But it's still infuriating. As if every day I spend temping is another day that some asshole can use against me.

LT -- I've been in similar setups, working next to people who sucked and who managed to make 50% more than I did just because they were permanent staff. And then when you want your own piece of the pie, they say: "You've done the job. You're doing a great job at the job. What a crying shame it is that you can't do the job."

Thanks to everybody for all your suggestions and support. I really appreciate it.

posted by jason's_planet 10 September | 14:44

*hands Jason's_Planet a big bowl of ice cream, the tv remote, and massages shoulders*

I'm sorry I have no suggestions, but I'm listening! And feeling your pain.

*hangs dart board with employers photos on it, hands J_P darts*

posted by redvixen 10 September | 16:12

I've had that happen to me. I was lucky my current employer was willing to payoff the agency to hire me.

Also, in addition to the payoff on hiring, many agencies flat-out don't allow employers to hire the temps, at least not for the first six months to a year they work for them. Doing so could completely destroy their relationship with the agency.

I've known places that will "fire" a temp, and make arrangements to "hire" them a month or two later, so they can avoid the temp agency BS.

posted by kellydamnit 10 September | 18:06

A shoulder rub from a redhead and a bowl of ice cream?

Oh, my. I should lose temp jobs more often ;)

I've known places that will "fire" a temp, and make arrangements to "hire" them a month or two later, so they can avoid the temp agency BS.

Another thing they do is fire them for a few months because if they work for months and months and years at a time, the courts have tended to rule that the temp agency is a legal fiction and the the onsite employer is the real employer. Real employers don't wanna get nailed that way so they'll lay you off for a while just to make it look more temporary.

posted by jason's_planet 10 September | 21:30

Having just spent half my work day (again) showing the permanent employee who sits next to me how to do her job (a job that I applied for, but which she got), I can kind of sympathise with you. Not that that helps, but still.

posted by dg 10 September | 23:00

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