{"id":3232,"date":"2015-01-20T06:46:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joke-archives.com\/?p=3232"},"modified":"2015-01-20T06:46:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T04:46:25","slug":"the-advantages-of-being-a-temp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/?p=3232","title":{"rendered":"The Advantages of Being a Temp"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>You&#8217;re only lending your soul, not selling it.<\/li>\n<li>You won&#8217;t be there when the fruits of your labor turn rotten.<\/li>\n<li>Trying on a different personality at each new job site.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t have to continually fork over part of your paycheck for co-workers&#8217; weddings, babies, birthdays and anniversaries, or children&#8217;s school, scouts, athletic, and band fund-raising efforts.<\/li>\n<li>No one gives you clothes emblazoned with the company logo and then expects you to wear them.<\/li>\n<li>You can avoid the internal &#8220;war.&#8221; I once temped at an office so divided and filled with hate, one half wouldn&#8217;t even speak with the other&#8230; it was my job to convey messages between the enemy camps.<\/li>\n<li>Your true Pointy-Haired Boss is usually miles away&#8230;and the &#8220;customer&#8221; PHB can (often) be ignored.<\/li>\n<li>Overtime at time and a half! Woo-Hoo!<\/li>\n<li>Leaving at 4:30.<\/li>\n<li>Eight Words: &#8220;It was like that when I got here.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>You get to hear the words, &#8220;Good job&#8221; and, &#8216;Please stay&#8221; frequently.<\/li>\n<li>When the company goes out backwards your resume says you worked for an agency.<\/li>\n<li>You don&#8217;t give a rat&#8217;s hoohaa what the stock is doing.<\/li>\n<li>I know my end date. The directs don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s like being the only lemming in the group with a parachute&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re only lending your soul, not selling it. You won&#8217;t be there when the fruits of your labor turn rotten. Trying on a different personality at each new job site. You don&#8217;t have to continually fork over part of your paycheck for co-workers&#8217; weddings, babies, birthdays and anniversaries, or children&#8217;s school, scouts, athletic, and band [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpmdr_menu":1,"wpmdr_menu_extended":{"individualPostRemove":1,"individualPostRemoveDate":1,"individualPostRemoveAuthor":1,"individualPostYoastRemovePublished":1,"individualPostYoastRemoveModified":1},"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1418],"class_list":["post-3232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work","tag-temporary-worker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joke-archives.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}