Between You, Me and the Lamp Post
Day 47: Temp assignments
While some people give preference to a full-time job, others think temping is rather cool. By going from one organization to another, one gets to meet a lot of people, the work never gets boring, new things are learned, hours are more or less flexible, and at any time the temp can take time off. It sounds ideal.
Unfortunately, it isn’t. True, temping has a lot of perks, but it also has some down points. There are lots of new beginnings, and new beginnings are usually difficult.
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Some people temps meet are friendly and helpful, others are rather arrogant. And not all jobs are nice, there have been one or two where I walked out never to return.
Still, the majority of temp assignments are nice and the people are welcoming. Of course, they are welcoming, the temp is there to help out, to make their lives a little easier, to do a job nobody else wants to do.
I remember my very first assignment ever. It was for Flink bakery in Benoni, South Africa. Oh boy, and what an assignment that was.
At 10:30 more coffee and tea, along with a selection of muffins, bagels, and tiny pancakes.
At lunchtime, a trolley was pushed in the office holding again warm bread, and a variety of cold cuts and cheeses.
Coffee and tea to wash it all down.
At 3:00 once again coffee and tea, this time with a huge plate with slices of cake.
I just loved working there and was more than a little sorry when after three weeks the person I was standing in for returned.
My most interesting assignment was working for Ermetek, a military company where I was responsible for typing manuals for tanks. How to take them apart in case of a problem, and how to put them back together again.
Yet another wonderful assignment was working for Lever Brothers.
The bottom line is, with temp work you never know where you’ll end up or what is expected of you. When it’s good, you're sorry having to leave, when it’s bad, you know it’s only for a limited time and then you can wave goodbye.