Death of a Temp
May 10th, 2006Yesterday I ventured over to a Temp Agency to try and scare up some work for me. I spent about 5 hours taking these elaborate tests in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, etc. I remember doing these tests about 8 years ago when I first starting temping, but man oh man, they’ve gotten hard. I don’t think I did very well. Not only was I already slow out of the gate, but my contacts popped out in the middle of the Outlook test. So I couldn’t really see very well. And I think the 22 year old girl next to me did a little better than me, judging from her insanely fast typing and her shout-outs of “Yes! Perfect 100!” After I was done getting crushed by the 22 year old in the Microsoft Office 2006 Olympics, the owner of the Temp Agency called me in and informed me they might have a job for me answering the phones for 6 different Time Warner Execs at the same time. But she told me I seemed too laid back and needed to speak faster. And she added, “Plus you need to get those Outlook scores up!”
Is this what I’m going to be doing for the rest of my life?
May 16th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Rob, I looked into the future and saw some good news. Microsoft Outlook won’t be the predominant email program in the future - so your future looks bright!
May 18th, 2006 at 9:45 am
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!