Quotes About Temps

Qu'est-ce que le nihilisme ? Rozanov répond parfaitement à la question quand il écrit : "La représentation est terminée. Le public se lève. Il est temps d'enfiler son manteau et de rentrer à la maison. On se retourne : plus de manteau ni de maison.

In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.

In the last years of the nineteen-eighties, I worked not at startups but at what might be called finish-downs. Tech companies that were dying would hire temps - college students and new graduates - to do what little was left of the work of the employees they'd laid off.