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From: scott@yale.ARPA (Walter Scott)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Kelly Girls"
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Date: Sun, 19-May-85 18:32:07 EDT
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In article <2602@ihuxf.UUCP> features@ihuxf.UUCP (M.A. Zeszutko) writes:
>> 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".

Uh - huh.  I don't know about any of the other services, but every ad
that I've ever seen for Kelly Services (including recently) always puts
in a line saying "THE KELLY GIRL PEOPLE" All of their ads have always
looked pretty sicko and patronizing to me.  Maybe we can hear from
someone who's worked for them recently?

My SO is looking for some summer work right now, and even though she
could make good money from it, she will NOT go to Kelly or any of those
places except as a last resort.  From what I've seen of the treatment of
temp help and female secretaries in general in places where I've worked,
I can see where she's coming from.  It's incredible how some (male)
managers can treat (female) company secretaries in such an inhuman
fashion. Or maybe not so incredible...

Walter Scott
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