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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Kelly Girls"
Message-ID: <10927@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 15:45:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 22 15:45:40 1985
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Summary: It all depends....

My wife has been working for Kelly for a couple years now. She doesn't make
much money (by my standards) but likes to be free to work or not as she
chooses. She has developed a reputation as a fine worker, and has a number
of Kelly clients who ask for her specifically, because they know she is
competent and capable. Kelly provided her with word processing training at
no cost, and she doesn't seem to mind working in clerical positions, even
though she has, in the past, been a career professional (government
contract specialist) and a manager (ran her own retail business).

A secretary in this office has also worked for Kelly and says that she 
liked doing it. 

Moral: Kelly may well be fine for older and skilled people who want to
exchange higher salaries for freedom, working part-time as they desire.
Maybe life as a Kelly temporary is much different if you are a young,
sexually attractive, relatively-unskilled female clerical substitute,
who is doing it not just for "extra money" but to survive, because she
can't get a permanent position. It is probably comparing "apples and 
oranges" to equate these two extremes. The latter type may well be subject
to sexual harassment and advances the former never experiences. 

In other words, as in everything else, everything you say about anything
must be so qualified and hedged with conditions, exceptions, and specifics
that your point or message is lost in the detail, if you are to be accurate.
(Short form = you can't win.:-)

Regards,
Will Martin

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