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SOS: Sex, Offspring And Staffing

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May 8, 2008

An upcoming staffing magazine article came out of an Instant Messenger discussion:

gregg dourgarian says:
had an idea for an article…thought you could do justice to it if you wanted to run with it

gregg dourgarian says:
title

gregg dourgarian says:
SOS: Sex, Offspring and Staffing

jack@tempworks.com says:
love it already

jack@tempworks.com says:
do we even need content?

jack@tempworks.com says:
whats it about

gregg dourgarian says:
you could take it different ways…sex sells in almost any dimension

gregg dourgarian says:
but my intent was to focus on how to avoid family problems in a family business

jack@tempworks.com says:
i’m rubbing off on you, come up with a great title and go from there

gregg dourgarian says:
i’ve met several children of parents that divorced while running their staffing company together

jack@tempworks.com says:
seems like everyone in staffing is divorced

gregg dourgarian says:
that’s just it…it’s almost everyone

jack@tempworks.com says:
why do you think that is?

gregg dourgarian says:
i remember my mom and dad having problems when my dad started out…he dove into it…we had to scrap for pennies…moved out of a nice house and into an apartment etc

jack@tempworks.com says:
so money pressure, debt service, change in lifestyle, waiting for success

gregg dourgarian says:
plus older guy hiring young women he can hit on all day long

gregg dourgarian says:
just this thread we’re doing now makes for nice material…

jack@tempworks.com says:
the title is great, I will get you the opening paragraph

jack@tempworks.com says:
there is also a parade of people all day, the applicants, interviews, those people need you, there is power in being the interviewer

gregg dourgarian says:
yeah but that divorce…ouch…that guy in [location deleted]…seemed like a great guy but you could tell the divorce brought him down bigtime

jack@tempworks.com says:
if you’re doing clerical, its secretaries (needing to temp because hubby is a bum), receptionists (young and looking good to find a hubby)

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This article was written by Gregg Dourgarian

Gregg wrote the first TempWorks software as a teenager in 1975 with his staffing pioneer father who founded Manpower's technical and payroll operations. Gregg also built an airline software company. Its product, Supertrace, helps keep airline reservation systems running smoothly worldwide.


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