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To: qdog who wrote (7233)	1/19/1998 10:41:00 AM
From: Jim Lurgio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

Currently the North is loaded with workers that are not citizens and I mean loaded. They are either illeagal or come here on a visa and go right to work for cash until the visa runs out. They then go home for a while and then return again. In one report they found over thirty men living in one house working different shifts. A friend of mine pays a woman 400 cash a week to care for his mother. It's wrong but without this woman he couldn't afford care for his mother . I don't know what the answer to all this is so I'll just drop the subject and look ahead and let managment do what they feel is best.

To: qdog who wrote (7233)	1/19/1998 3:20:00 PM
From: Asterisk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

If I may inject a little smile in here, one of the HUGE users of contract employees and temps is MSFT. When I lived in Seattle I knew MANY people that stayed as contract employees because they get payed 1.5 to 2 times what the full timers got paid. Of course they don't get as many stock options or any of the bennies(health, sick time, etc...) that full timers do, but if you are fresh out of college and are healthy it is a GREAT way to make a really quick buck. Once you get a family and some other responsabilities that changes of course. This may sound heartless but when you get hired on as a temp or as a contract employee one of the things that you accept is that you can get canned at a moments notice. You can however get a foot in the door at a company at the same time, that is the bet you are making. How many people out there have seen companies hire temps only to turn them into full time employees? I definately have, that is the wave of the future. It gives both the company and the person a way to try the fit and say yes or no without any hurt feelings either way.