The Way I Was, Back when I made $16.00/hr temping

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When I first began temping, I mostly specialized in techincal work which paid no money. I actually had a programming job at Verizon which paid $14.00/hr.

A friend of mine who knew Word Perfect was the one who told me about working at night and on weekends at word processing centers.

My friend worked mostly at law firms but he also worked at Credit Suisse First Boston. One night, First Boston needed another temp and my friend called me and that was how I managed to break into the "Word Processing Center Market". Once I had First Boston as a Center and on my resume (and a "White Boy" recommending me), I was able to get into other centers and become the Vicious Money Hungry Career Destroying beauch that I am today.

But I can still remember the days when I only worked days and $16.00/hr was like a fahking good thang. I can still remember the way I was ...

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Where The fahk Do You Think I'm Going beauch!


Back in the days when I only worked during the day and only made $16.00/hr temping, it was very very important to work every day. A day without work meant lost money, even being required by the client to take a one hour lunch meant lost money.

Back then, and prehaps still, the temp agencies began calling us on Friday afternoons for work the following week. So it was important that if I didn't have work for the next week that I called the agencies I was registered with and told them that I was available.

Now, I was on this assignment at this idiot compay and on Friday the supervising beauch tells me to come in the next week for work. So, I turn down all this work thinking that I already have an assignment for the next work. Then on Monday morning at 10:00 AM, the beauch tells me that my assignment is over, and get this, she actually expected me to sit there and work for the rest of the day.

Fortunately, I was registered with a lot of temp agencies and I began calling temp agencies at 10:00 AM and by 12:00 Noon I had another assignment that stated at 1:00 PM THAT DAY several blocks away from where I was. As I was heading out of the door, the beauch actually had the nerve to ask me where I was going. Like where the fahk do you think I’m going, beauch?

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Chemical Bank Temporaries

While the Gay Boys of NYC were laughing at me because I couldn't get into the "get fahked in the aasss by tired aasss old supervior queens club" (i.e. WP Centers at some Investement Banks), I was actually doing very well as A Chemcial Bank Temporary.

The employment market in NYC is so massive that no one has a lock on all of it, temping and temp agencies are only a fraction of the opportunity that is available. Chemical Bank Temporaries was one of the alternate opportunities available a few years ago in NYC (after a merger with Manufacturers, Chemical Bank Temporaries was turned over to Olsten, which is now Adecco).

Essentially, old Chemical Bank created its own temporary service to provide temps for Chemical Bank. This proves that if companies really wanted to save money on getting temporary help they know how to do it.

While us Chemical Bank Temps were much like any other temps, the rate that we got on a job was "Whatever the Supervisor Wanted To Pay Us".

Most of the Chemical Bank Temps seemed to have been minorities. Either the Hustler Boyz didn't know about Chemcial or they didn't want to actually do any work.

I actually heard a Hustler Boy once fretting about whether some Thang liked him. Can you imagine your life coming down to whether some beauch (whose head you can just twist off and stomp into the fahking dirt) LIKES you.

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CSFB In the Beginning

When I first began working for First Boston, the Bankers had control over what temps worked; the bankers could request temps by name. Obviously, the best temps got the most work at CSFB in those days.

Most of us temping at First Boston in the late 80's early 90's had our own business cards with our names and temp agencies on them to give to bankers (so that they could request us by name the next time they needed a temp). I once got a request from my agency to temp for a Banker at CSFB on an Excel project, and the banker had told my agency that if I wasn't available to just forget it..

First Boston was perfect in the late 80's early 90's, no bullshit, no theater, no actors, just bankers who needed work done and good temps who could do the work.

Some time later, some people apparently decided to create a level of management at CSFB to MANAGE TEMPS, and then suddenly CSFB becomes full of actor temps who the bankers at CSFB seemed to all hate.

"Maybe this will make me?". John Freeman, CSFB/Custom Staffing Insider Trading Temp

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The change in the MIX of temps at Credit Suisse First Boston from good temps who wanted to work to brain dead actor temps (who just wanted to inflict their idiot fahking delusions of beings stars on everyone), was directly linked to Viki Touchberry.

Touchberry had this fantasy that she was going to be this giant screenwriting star and seemed to feel that she should therefore surround herself with other equally talent-less delusional theater/acting aholes.

Touchberry died of cancer last year, and I don't know any Temps who were heartbroken over that incident.

First Boston was a great place to work but, to this day, I cannot understand how a loser like Touchberry managed to get a job there.