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Now, we would never advocate spending 4 minutes of your workday watching a funny YouTube video, but in this case, we’ll make an exception…because WE made the video.  Now playing on Spherion’s YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=spheriontheweb) is our new original Web video series, My Temporary Life, an over-the-top comedy about nightmare temp assignments, hardly Scorcese-caliber but will certainly have you laughing (at least we think so).  After 50 years of finding people jobs, we think we’re pretty good at it. Now, we thought we’d try our hand at entertaining them as well.

The Spherion channel also contains our favorite user-created workplace videos shot at the office or for the office.  Create and upload your own workplace video and we’ll add it to our channel. Or better yet, send us your worst workplace horror story and we may use it as an episode of My Temporary Life.

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Posted by Kip Havel on December 6, 2006 at 4:40 PM

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LOL - what a RIOT!

Posted by Elizabeeth on December 7, 2006 12:16 AM

My worst temp story: I am an engineer, but I was out of work and in the Southwest for a while. I had some temporary jobs during that time. Once a temp agency called me for a job doing medical records filing. It turned out that the hospital was having an audit and the job involved bending over, putting stacks of heavy folders (senior citizens' medical charts) on a cart and unloading them on the auditor's table. This all had to be done quickly. I can do clerical work, but I cannot do lifting, and no one explained to me that the main requirement was lifting all day. After three hours I felt that my head was spinning, I was going to faint, and I couldn't stand up any more. I went to the supervisor and she called the agency and they told me to go home. The unemployment division tried to accuse me of quitting a job, and they falsely claimed that the employer said that I had quit. The temp agency said they sent the recommendation for me to get the unemployment benefits. The labor department then decided in my favor after I argued strongly. Anyway, to readers out there, ask explicitly how much a lifting a job involves.

Posted by Northern California on February 9, 2008 2:11 AM

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