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Tuesday, October 25

Temp Hint

I get so tired of being jerked around. Just when I get used to having hubby at home he goes off on a temp job that is supposed to last for a ceratin amount of time. Only it never does. They always end it early. He is just that good of a worker and goes through the tasks at super speed. In any case, I just get used to him going off to work and there he is at home again, sooner than expected.

So my hint about temp jobs is never to expect them to start and end when they say they are going to. The first one he went on was as a replacement for some guy who went on a long vacation just as they were transitioning to another system. After all the hard work was done, the guy decided to come back early, bumping hubby out of a job -- until they called at the last minute begging him to come back for a couple more days until vacation guy got up to speed on the new system!

7 Comments:

  • i have always been fortunate to have a reasonable job but i saw a tv series where people became other peoples servants for a week. I remember htinking i would kill not to have to htink just follow instructions and rules........spose you just want what you aint got!

    By Blogger mike, at 1/12/2006 11:27 AM  

  • Hi Chloe,

    I can relate to you, as I am also experiencing the same problems!!

    Here in Australia we have to be connected to what they call a Network Agency, they are the higher powers and they dictate the rules. The Employee has no rights and Employers are in a position to offer very low rates of pay knowing the unemployed have to accept all jobs offered to them or lose their unemployment payments.

    You can only register with one agency and cannot change unless they agree to release you. If you are offered a job through the network you cannot question or negotiate the rate of pay - because you have no rights.

    I have been breached by my agency, otherwise known as Mission Employment - Mission Impossible as I call them!!! So I now have to plead my case with Centrelink Resolution Panel, if I don't want to lose my payment for eight weeks, all because I questioned the rate, and asked for $1 an hour more.

    I wasn't happy with that agency anyway, they never allowed me to do training, goodness knows what they used my training funds for, but it wasn't to help me.

    I have an employment site on blogger, have a lot of problems with the codes, so hope you can check it out and links are working okay.

    Regards and good luck with the job hunting.

    Caro
    caroscom.blogspot.com@gmail.com

    By Blogger Caro, at 4/01/2007 11:29 PM  

  • Either go full time or part-time because temp jobs are unpredictable

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    By Blogger Dan Schawbel, at 5/14/2007 12:40 PM  

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