Temp Troops of High-Tech

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday January 22, 2002 @01:25AM from the send-in-the-drones dept.

A submitter sends in this story about temp work in Silicon Valley, from the point of view of the temp. Compare almost the same story written from the point of view of Amazon.com's management.

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too bad it's not like mud by Em+Emalb · 2002-01-22 02:24 · Score: 0, Redundant

I can see it now:

My level 60 Knight finally has enough of his temp job.

>Your bash sends the bossman sprawling!
>You TERMINATE the bossman.
>You TERMINATE the bossman.
>You TERMINATE the bossman.
>You TERMINATE the bossman.

the bossman is incapacitated and will die if not soon aided. The bossman is dead. You get one lousy experience point.
tee-hee

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Re:That's Life by JonnyCalcutta · 2002-01-22 02:43 · Score: 0, Redundant

Yeh, right on man!!! That's the Merkin way!!! Fuck the little guy - its his own fault - probably just lazy or stoopid.
If they can't be bothered to get of their fat, immigrant behinds and move to New York for a cushy job as an Ad Exec then the Packard family deserve to make another couple of billion bucks off their backs. I might employ a couple of the stoopidist ones myself, as human torches to light my seegars with.
Re:That's Life by DrkOvrLrd · 2002-01-22 02:52 · Score: 0, Redundant

That's life?? Pretty apethetic sounding. "That's life, so, don't bother me with it." It's that kind of attitude that most employers hope for. The economics are simple, pay what you can get away with, not what it's worth. Many people just don't have the option of picking up and moving away. That takes cash reserves. And those people described, can barely set the table with food. Reality may bite, but, the truth is, it doesn't have to.