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Marion Paige (Admin)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2000 - 04:14 pm: | |
When I first came to NYC in the late 80's, I mostly specialized in technical consulting. Then I noticed that these brain damaged retards doing word processing and lotus were making more money than I was and they were doing much less work. For example, I had a contract with IBM that paid me less than some idiot actress made typing and she was doing her nails most of the time she was suppose to be working.
So, I set out to learn a word processing program to use as back-up in case my business was slow to take-off and just so I could be in a position to tell anyone I happen to be working for to go *uck themselves (I love having that option).
So, I paid $300.00 for Microsoft Word for Windows, bought books on MS Word for Windows, studied it, learned it and set out to register with temp agencies.
Now, at the time I was not an expert on the NYC market, I heard from people temping that Custom Staffing was THE agency and that all of their temps made lots of money. At the time, every temp I ever saw from Custom Staffing was White and Gay and had much attitude. But, if that was the place to make lots of money, then Custom Staffing was the place I was going to register with.
Okay, so I'm at Custom Staffing, there are two receptionists, one male one female. I tell them that I would like to register as a temp and that I know Microsoft Word for Windows. The guy asks me how many years of experience in Word for Windows I have. I say three months. He then says: "I'm sorry but you have to have at least two years of experience to register with us". Two years of experience in Microsoft Word for Windows and Microsoft Word for Windows has only been on the market for three months? The program is only three months old so how can anyone have two years of experience with it?
I tell this to the guy but he and the chick are not buying it, they KNOW that you MUST have at least two years experience and that's that. So, I have to go downstairs, use a pay phone to call upstairs and speak to a counselor and tell the counselor that the receptionists are turning away people because they don't have two years of experience in a program that is only three months old.
Finally, someone convinces the Guy and the Fat Chick to allow me to take the Ms Word for Windows test. I take the test and neither the Guy nor the Chick know how to print out the results, so I print it out for them and hand it to them. The Guy and the Chick then look at the printout and say "I'm sorry you didn't pass the test". Okay, so this Guy and this Chick don't know that the software is only three months old and they don't know how to print from the program, yet they are still capable of determining who passes and fails the test? Some how, some way, I manage to actually get to a counselor and register.
Well for a long time I never hear from Custom Staffing and all this time I am watching brain damaged people who know only lotus make more money than me. Then one day a counselor who I knew from another agency calls me and tells me that she is now at Custom Staffing and she gives me work. But I only get work while she is there and when she leaves I hear that I was DNU-ed, this is agency talk for "DO NOT USE". Apparently, I am not Custom Staffing quality. Among all the girls in the city, DNU is the horror upon horrors. To be DNU-ed by Custom is, in this one little clique, equivalent to being relegated to a life of poverty and shame.
At this point in the story, I must simply say that I do not consider a temp agency to be in a position to decide if I live or die. So, receiving the information that I have been DNU-ed by Custom Staffing does not exactly ruin my day. In fact, I actually mailed a certified letter to Custom Staffing officially quiting and informing them not to allege or give the impression that I still worked for them.
Fast Forward. Years later, I pick up the New York Post and there is a picture of this temp on the cover. It turns out this Temp is a Custom Staffing Temp and he has just pleaded guilty as the point man for the largest insider trading scandal in history (involving stealing and selling insider info from Credit Suisse First Boston).
It turns out the DNU Princesses end up getting DNU-ed by First Boston. |
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