Permanently Temporary: The Truth About Temp Labor (Full Length)

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One man’s slavery is another billionaire man’s “maximization of shareholder equity”

I was a temp in Seattle. There were other 'temps' who were at my place of employment for 7 years. That is 7 years without a single day off with pay, no benefits and half the salary of the real employees. And we were treated as 'less than' the entire time.

I worked for a temp agency for several years and they promised that once I was at a job for a certain amount of time I would become permanent. Well it was 3 years and the company would give me a small raise or let me take time off with no penalty but I still wasn’t permanent nor did I have full worker benefits. I complained for a long time with other fellow temp workers and one day my then supervisor said “they’re not forcing you to come in here to work…. If you know they’re treating you bad then leave and find something that will better help you financially”. Well I listened to him and left and got a permanent job with benefits. If your able to find another job that gives you more benefits and works better for you then please do it! These rich folks don’t care about us. We have to care about ourselves.

It’s incredible how the working class has lost all their benefits because of the greediness of the CEOS. Now we have sweats shop all over USA and the staffing agencies are in charge to hired the employees!!!

This was released over 5 and a half years ago, and I doubt anything's gotten better since

It's not to keep prices down for consumers. It's about increased margins for greedy companies. Nothing has changed in the last 100 years.

“I came here with a lot of hope, but what I found was a lot of abuse”. My god, that’s horrible, to find it on both sides of the border.

The thing is this doesn't just effect "unskilled workers" it also effects those in the trades welders, mechanics, carpenters etc ive worked at a company where they said they would "transition" you to a full employee in 6 months but I knew people that had been there a year and a half. They did this because if things slow down they could lay us off with out having to tell the shareholders and limit pay for those that where temp workers.

Pay them enough to stay, don't pay them enough to leave Modern day slavery

This makes me understand why people sell drugs.

1 person getting full time employment out of 50 isn’t something I’d brag about lol but that dude was very proud of that statistic for some reason

I am in the process of leaving the " temp industry" . I have worked temp jobs all over the nation for 20+ years . During that time period. I struggled hard and got an education in finance & economics. Three years ago I started a growing business called " Pirate Global Options" . My company is well known in Monaco and Indonesia. I was even interviewed by the ' Wall Street Journal " . Once these temp companies find out how good a worker you are . It's hard for these companies to let you go . I still have old temp companies calling me up to see if I'm coming in . I'm like hell nah are you serious 😂

This is why some countries are pushing for a law that says if you work at a place for a certain amount of time you must be offered full-time employment. A.G.

"They call it the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it!"

I was a temp worker, trained by "Maximus" company for 3 + months and let go for ostensibly being rude to customer on phone. It was a way for the company to let 25 out of 30 workers go, and not pay unemployment. I took them to court, challenged the company, and won my unemployment case. They train, make u work a few months, promise permanent employment and then let 25 of 30 go. I think maybe this is a way to fulfill equal employment laws regarding hiring. In other words, hiring older, or minority workers and then pushing them out by around 6 mos, when benefits have to kick in,P.S. New York State has now used temp workers to avoid paying benefits. Shame on them.

I’m currently In college and is hard (nursing) but I always remind myself that living in a survival mode is even harder.

Temp agencies didn't hired the black dude because he knows his rights.

There is something about that frail old man in the end that makes me sad, he seems like such a friendly and kind-hearted person.

This guy at the end has me crying I hope and pray that he’s okay and doing slightly better all of these people deserve to make more than a shitty $8 💔 I’m sure it’s even worse now in 2020 but I genuinely want them to just feel okay that’s the minimal human right work should provide. Have a heart.