November 15, 2001 - Temp Chat 5!  Informing the Masses!

Once again, I'm hitting the chat channels.  My original intention when starting this endeavor was to find other temps.  When I couldn't find any, it seemed like the next best thing was to get people's opinions about temps.  The wall I ran into there was that most people didn't even seem to know what temps were.  So, I decided this mission would become more of an educational one.  I will tell the world about temps.

Yeah.  That's what I'll do.

'Course, here I am barging into people's IRC channels, just assuming they want to know anything and everything about temps.  This may not be the case, so watch in amazement as I slyly turn the conversation to my own ends.

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*** Now talking in #celeb_central

 

<notmydesk> Hey!

<herb_> hello

<herb_> you seem happy

<notmydesk> I am!  I've got some awesome celeb gossip about Brad Pitt!

<notmydesk> Turns out before he was a movie star, he was a TEMP

<notmydesk> can you believe that?

<herb_> whats a TEMP

<notmydesk> AGGGGGGHHH

<notmydesk> um, sorry

<notmydesk> What I meant was, a temp is a temporary employee!

<herb_> for hollywood?

<notmydesk> well, no, not just hollywood. anywhere, really!

<herb_> makes sense

<notmydesk> I'm a temp, for instance, in the San Francisco area

<herb_> its a part time job

<notmydesk> well, it can be full-time. Just not a 'permanent', or 'staff' job.

<herb_> i see

<notmydesk> Like, um... they hire you to replace someone who isn't there.  like they're on vacation or dead or something.

<herb_> so

<herb_> he was a TEMP

<notmydesk> Well, no. I just wanted to use that as a lead-in.

<herb_> ahh i see

<notmydesk> I wanted to talk about temping, and it helps to have a hook into the conversation.

<herb_> lol

<herb_> ok

<notmydesk> I figured in a celeb channel, mentioning Brad Pitt might get some attention

<notmydesk> I uh... may need some professional help.

 

*** Now talking in #cheap

 

<notmydesk> hi there!

<playr2> there! not I

<notmydesk> I'm cheap

<playr2> cheap lol

<notmydesk> 'cos I'm a part of the nation's temporary workforce!  ha ha!

<notmydesk> any other temps present?

<playr2> other temps present? penix hes talkin mad shit!

<notmydesk> no one knows what a temp is?

<playr2> one knows what being a couple months lol

<drkrool> temp is temporary

<playr2> is temporary rofl

<drkrool> or temprature

<drkrool> where at?

<playr2> at? lol

<notmydesk> eek.

<notmydesk> so, uh.  do you know what a temporary employee is?

<playr2> know what a lol

<notmydesk> okay.  try this.  do you know what a complete sentence is?

<Whiteysmalls> hahahha

<Whiteysmalls> a temp employee is kinda like a stand in employee only gonna be there for a short time

<playr2> temp employee is lol

<notmydesk> yes, Whitey!

<notmydesk> excellent

<playr2> remmeber that for me yea

<notmydesk> playr, you left the 'lol' off the end of that

<playr2> left the 'lol' LOL

<notmydesk> i'm disappointed in you

<playr2> in you i knew you for like years lol

<notmydesk> like years lol

<playr2> years lol yep lol

<notmydesk> lol lol

<katielover> LOL

<notmydesk> wow, playr.  you repeat things. like a parrot, only with a severe mental handicap

<notmydesk> lol

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*** Now talking in #texaschat

<notmydesk> Hi there!

<notmydesk> I'm planning on moving to Texas, and was wondering how the temping market was out there.

<Lady_T> depends on which part of texas you move to i suppose

<notmydesk> hm. well, say Austin, for example

<Lady_T> im in amarillo area and i dont think the temp market is to great

<Lady_T> ahhh

<Lady_T> yesss

<Lady_T> austin is good

<notmydesk> are you a temp?

<Lady_T> use to be :)

<Lady_T> homemaker now

<notmydesk> ah, really!

<notmydesk> how did you like temping?

<Lady_T> hmmm

<Lady_T> notmydesk?? what kind of temping are we talking about

<notmydesk> well, office temping i guess?

<notmydesk> what kind did you do?

<Lady_T> office temp

<notmydesk> me too!

<notmydesk> did you like it?

<Lady_T> yup :)

<notmydesk> wow. someone who actually liked temping.

<notmydesk> you're a rare find, Lady_T

<Lady_T> why's that?

<notmydesk> most people i meet don't even know what temps are

<notmydesk> and if they do, they don't like them

<notmydesk> and if they do like them, they... actually, that hasn't come up yet

<notmydesk> so, don't you wish you'd stayed a temp instead of having a buncha screaming kids?

<Lady_T> ummm my screaming kids are 18 and 15 now

<notmydesk> and they're still screaming? at that age?

<notmydesk> might want to get them into therapy, ASAP

<Lady_T> nooo actually it turns into bitching and whining

<notmydesk> well, maybe having kids isn't all that different than temping then.  'Cos that sounds a lot like my afternoon.

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