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From: cs1@oddjob.UUCP (Cheryl Stewart)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: "Kelly Girls"
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Date: Mon, 27-May-85 19:15:11 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 27 19:15:11 1985
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And now for something  completely different...

Many Kelly Girls, secretaries, etc. get the last laugh.  I know one
employee of of a temporary office-staff-type firm who's main income
comes from bona fide corporate espionage.  Of course she LOOKS quite
harmless, and is "underpaid" and "abused" (in the social, not physical
sense of the word).  But for every dollar she makes over the table,
she makes ten under the table, and the more sexist her "boss" is, the
more she makes him pay for it in sudden, deadly security leaks to rival
companies.  So next time you patronize a temp, think twice.  This is
the most extreme example I can give concerning the power of the underdog.
But everybody knows that if an executive wants to know what's REALLY
going on in a department several levels beneath him, all's he has to
do is call the secretary...(why do you think some of them look so smug
all the time?)  I wouldn't step on ANY secretary's toes, and I don't 
think that any boss is well-advised to treat his or her secretary as anything
but a paid professional providing a necessary service.  This isn't even
feminism--it's just good common sense.  But of course, common sense is
not so common.

                                    That Cheryl Stewart again