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These Temp Agencies Keep Bugging Me With Work
By Admin (Admin) on Tuesday, March 5, 2002 - 10:20 am: Edit PostThe truth of the matter is that I don't really want to work, I work when I have to work. And I just can't seem to get into working a 1st and 2nd shift anymore even though I would love blowing that much money.
There IS work out there, I'm not even looking for work and I'm getting work
By Admin (Admin) on Saturday, March 9, 2002 - 1:33 pm: Edit PostSure, I Can Do The Assignment, It Will Only Take Me An Hour and A Half To Get There
Once when I called for a temp, the agency said that the temp available lived in New Jersey and that it would take her an hour and a half to get to Manhattan.
I can't believe that anyone would wait an hour and a half for a temp to show up to a temp assignment.
When I lived in Flushing, I realized early on that when an agency calls you and you say that you can be there in an hour (or more) they are going to try and find someone who can get to the assignment sooner.
I made it a habit, when I lived in Queens, to come to Manhattan every morning when I didn't have work. I would come to Manhattan in time for a 9:00 am assignment and wait around to see if some agency would call with work. Using this method, I worked every day, because I was registered with a lot of temp agencies (if you are already in Manhattan in the morning and it would only take you minutes to get to an assignment, you are going to get the assignment before someone who says that they can be there "in an hour and a half").
Some temp agencies may still have AM Standby, where they pay temps to wait in their offices in the morning for work, but when you do this, you are stuck with one agency and you are stuck behind the people who came in before you. If you are registered with 35 temp agencies (as I was at one time), you are very likely to get calls from a couple of temp agencies in the morning looking for temps.
By Admin (Admin) on Saturday, March 23, 2002 - 10:07 am: Edit Post35 Temp Agencies?
Yes, boys and girls, at one time I was actually registered with 35 temp agencies. Back in the old days, as indicated above, I would come into Manhattan prepared to work a 9:00 am assignment. I would then start calling agencies in the morning, like starting at about 8:30 on, telling them that I was in Manhattan and ready for anything that came up.
maybe you can understand why I usually laugh when I read messages from people saying that they are registered with 5 temp agencies and can't get work. There are like more than a thousand fucking temp agencies in Manhattan and you are only going to register with 5 and then give up?
If there was actually a day when I did not get work using my method, since I was already in Manhattan dressed in business clothes, I would register with other temp agencies. At the time, most temp agencies allowed you to just walk in and register, and that's exactly what I did do.
the fact is that registering and interviewing means losing money, so it makes a lot of sense to use a day when you can't find work to register with other agencies
Eventually, I managed to get some long term temp assignments in Centers on second shift and weekends and I no longer gave a shit about AM work. In fact, I feel I can tell by the sound of the ring on my phone whether some asshole is calling me with some idiot fucking $19.00/hr AM assignment.
If I actually take a $19.00/hr AM job, nobody had better fucking even look at me the wrong fucking way, you don't get "nice" for nineteen fucking dollars an hour.
