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From: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Kelly Girls"
Message-ID: <1381@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-May-85 01:51:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri May 17 01:51:20 1985
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Reply-To: herbie@watdcsu.UUCP (Herb Chong [DCS])
Organization: U of Waterloo
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Summary: 

In article <2602@ihuxf.UUCP> features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) writes:
>> And
>> look at the "Kelly Girl"-type organizations.  (Note both the exclu-
>> sion of men and the degradation of women in the title - charming,
>> eh?)  They're putting EEO in their ads, but I doubt men are accepted
>> by clients as readily as women are.
>> 
>	While it's true that the clients may not be as willing to accept
>men in those positions (except, maybe, at "Manpower" :-), it's no
>longer "Kelly Girl".  It's "Kelly Services".  Even when I worked for
>them, over 5 years ago, as an office temp, I was *not* a "Kelly Girl",
>I was a "temporary office worker".
>-- 
>
>aMAZon @ AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL; ihnp4!ihuxf!features

Kelly has been running a lot of radio ads in Toronto lately and
they interview an "employee" of theirs whose a word processor expert.
although i think he is actually an actor hired for his voice, the
man was talking about "his" job as an office worker and running the
word processing machines.

Herb Chong...

I'm user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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