You may believe there will be opportunities to learn and advance, but you quickly sink into the boredom and despair of the dead-end job. You really need to work a flexible schedule, but when you do you move deeper into poverty. You would like to be recognized as a person in your own right, but you are treated like a clone from the agency s warehouse. Temporary workers are frequently viewed as second rate, defective people, Henson says. Temporary workers are haunted by this idea too.
Temporary workers don t get much respect, which suits both buyers and sellers of temporary workers.
The old lie about temp work was that it was mostly for women who were bored at home or who just wanted to earn some extra money to spend frivolously. These women were not breadwinners. Hey, no need to pay them decent wages. The lie has been updated, but hasn t changed significantly. It would seem that naked economic need is not what temporary work is about.