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Temping Job
So I rolled onto a temping job and it just wrapped up. I was there from the back end of August till this last Friday.
It was a job for a document company, it was a big scanning contract to transfer a load of paperwork to PDF. There were people that had to prep the boxes of paper so they were scan ready for the scanners.
I started in prep as did my fellow scanner buddy then we got moved about three weeks later to start the scanning work. We were good at what we did so we got left there.
I have never in all my working life been teamed up with someone who has such a very similar working style as me, we were both a pair of workaholics, we had no breaks and probally even only took a 20 min lunch because we wanted to get back into the scanning again.
We had a great laugh and I made another gresat friend out of it. It was a very big contract and needed 10 people for days and another 10 for nights to get it done as soon as possible. The trouble so to speak started when my temping company couldn't find all the people needed so understandably the company approached another temping place and brought in more people.
Can you see where this is going, yet?
So people got talking and one person found out that the other temping company were paying $16 an hour and we were only getting paid $14 so yes the shit hit the fan big style.
Everyone sent off e-mails saying how unhappy we were about finding this out. The response wasn't good either our boss had to come in and tell everyone tough crap we aren't giving you a pay rise but me and my work mate put our foots down as we did more work than any of them put together. Our targets were always over the amounts they wanted and the response was an extra ...............................twenty-five cents!!!!!!!!! Yes OMG!
The temping company was also going to give us a pizza party for our last day, well that will pay the bills won't it? May I add that me nor my work buddy didn't have one bit out of principle, it was like a smack in the face.
So this contract came to an end on Friday and a new big wig came. We were told that another project was going to be lined up and would we be interested in coming back. To that I'm not sure about yet. Lets just say some of the other temps were very lazy, they missed so much with their work that it made it hard for us to keep on top of our own targets. At times it was stressfull, they would miss taking off post its on paper and staples, we would complain but nothing would get done and if we missed it while we scanned we would be the ones accountable!
Big wig said while he was in the room to our then boss of the project it was amazing how they got the job done with the idiot temps which was a little insulting. We even had to complain to our temping boss about the idiots they employed for this contract and how they should be embarrassed as a company to have employed them. Yes, that didn't go down very well, lol! but it was true and it had to be said.
Me and my work mate overseed alot of crap that went on, when they got another scanner in that wasn't watching what he was doing and doing it all wrong we pointed it out, same with the Quality Control person and a few others, they all got fired as what we said was true. We appeared to be being the whistleblowers in a lot of areas in the end we thought forget it, if they can't be bothered to oversee their own contract and make sure people understood what they are doing then forget it!
So now I don't have another contract lined up, not sure if the temping company is pissed with me or is waiting to see if this company wants me again. To be honest I'm just going to enjoy the week off for now, get the condo cleaned up again and relax.
Is there ever going to be a time I just keep my head down and shut up....................... but my guess is no! |
Posted: 03:53, Monday 8 November 2010 |
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