NEGOTIATION
Temp staffing firms are the tools of Satan. Well, maybe not all of them. Maybe just the ones that I’ve gone through to get work. While it is nice to have someone who negotiates your salary and hours and everything for you, they also tend to take a nice chunk out of the money you make. I understand that’s how they get paid themselves, but sometimes they take too much. And you have to call and call and call them to get work. Sometimes, I’ve emailed them 8 times during a week just to get a response. The jobs they give me aren’t all that interesting. I’ve had stints in offices where I didn’t really understand what the business was but I got by just by making copies and sending faxes. I’ve worked in factories and have done customer service. Do you what customer service is? It’s getting on the phone with customers and getting yelled at because they don’t know what they’re doing with what they bought. And it’s always your fault that they don’t know what they’re doing and never their own fault. Do you understand why I get annoyed if a firm takes a slice out of my paycheck? I really earned that money.