If the factories like it, the temp industry loves it. They make money hand over fist. It s a win-win situation for the factories and the temp agencies. Only the workers lose. Most of the 400-plus nightly residents are temp workers.
Temp agencies know the grounds so well, they ve come to consider the shelter under their dominion.
They ll come in here in the middle of the night, wake you up because they need some workers. Then they lie to you. Racking parts, putting huge quantities of plastics on racks where they re dipped and chrome coated, is one of the main gigs. Old men wince. One man trying to sleep on a cot, young and muscled, says he was too sore to work again for several days after working a shift at Atlas.