Temps are not robots!
Temps aren't robots! The person training me kept referring to a "brain dump"
I really feel like this is unfair to me and unfair to the permanent person...
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the temp agency wanted to pay me only 10 an hour for this too and it is at an executive assitant level position in the northeast.
Ugh--that is annoying!
However, it's often a fact of temp life that you may be treated like brain-dead employees. Unfortunately, it only takes one experience for a company with an inept temp to start treating all of them as needing to be mechanized.
It's stupid people that tend to make the rest of us look bad...
We choose the way we feel. Nobody can make us feel like "brain dead" employees or "mindless robots" unless that is what we want.
Temp work is far from ideal but allowing your temp status to interfere with your confidence and self esteem is stupid and childish.
Besides - all jobs are temporary jobs today. A temp job has no benefits usually and a so-called permanent job is really just a temp job with benefits.
Bunzo
If you think temps have it bad try working as a Sub teacher. It pays $77/day, has no benefits, the school board does NOT pay into the Social Security fund, and we get no respect from anyone. They pay $11/hr. with a BS degree or higher and haven't raised the pay in 13 years. They also paid into the SS fund until 1994. They stopped that to save money. When the kids aren't in school we make zero dollars.
I have been seeking FT emp. for a long time with zero results. Hope you're doing better.
Move out of temp teaching to full time teaching.
I tried for the last 4 1/2 years to become a FT teacher. I got certified in 2 areas. The 1st area was Bus. Ed. and 80% of the positions here were cut due to budget problems. All future positions went by senioraty.
The 2nd area- Special Ed. There are openings there. I tried 2 long term sub positions to get exp. and see how it went. I could not get the kids to do what was required of them for many reasons. It takes a special person to make kids learn and I'm not it.
I am still here because nobody will hire me FT. I am also age 56. This is truly a living nightmare. I really am trying to get FT employment. I'm just not having any good luck.
"Move out of temp teaching to full time teaching."
Wow--really helpful advice. That's essentially like saying, "Don't like your job? Get a better job." If it were always that easy, huh?
Besides...have you ever tried to get a full-time teaching job for the last five weeks of the school year? Yeah...
I would think this is the wrong time of year. How about in the fall? Is there a shortage of teachers or not? We keep hearing there is, then we hear of teachers who can't find a job. Which is it?
I'm actually working on the design of a robot worker to replace temporary employees that complain. It's the nature of the beast to be a temp, be paid subpar and expected to learn the job quickly. Do you think a company is going to hire you and wait 6 months for your to figure our how to do the job? That's why it's called temporary work, because a company has a short period of time that they need help.
Heads up. If you find a permanent job, chances are that you won't get training and be expected to perform right away. Most companies just don't put a lot into training and development of employees. You've got to be a quick learner and adaptable to succeed in today's business environment.
You have some time yet as I cannot get my robot worker to stop trying to terminate humans. He has these scary red eyes. LOL.