TempGuy

Let me first clarify something--while my work may technically be "temporary" I am not a temp. I was not hired through an agency, but by my actual company, I was offered the job permenantly, and chose to do it temporarily, and, finally, most importantly, my work occasionally takes some form of brain power.
That said. The guy who has been sitting in the next desk over is a temp, and I have a few things to say about him.

First. He is like 65. I don't understand how he ended up temping. He has clearly taken a wrong turn somewhere on the road of life.

Second, he totally has the "movie preview guy" voice. Which is great. Cause all he does all day is call people and give the exact same speech. "Hello. This is Kevin Broderick, calling to remind you that the Advance Registration Deadline for Shop.org's Annual Summit is this Friday, September 8th. Please register soon to receive the discounted hotel room rate. We look forward to seeing you in New York City this fall." Yeah, that's verbatim. Because I've heard it 8 *#$@%*$% MILLION times this week. Anyway, try imagining that in the "Coming this summer..." voice. It's amusing the first few hundred times.
Now imagine that voice having this conversation with the freakin, FDA or something yesterday: "Yes, hello, I'm calling about a food product, a can of tuna fish. I found a great big bone in it, an inch to an inch and a half long. I could have been seriously injured had I not noticed it. Is this something I can report? [...] I am in Washington, DC, but the incident occurred in Virginia."
So clearly, although he is doing a job for high school students and despondent, just graduated college students, he has not lost his old man ways.
And finally, he spoke to me for the first time today, and this is what he said: "I notice there are televisions in every office, do you know why this would be?" I answered that since this firm does do government relations, they probably want to be able to watch CNN and CSPAN to hear about what's going on in government. His response? "Oh, I thought it might be in case of a terrorist attack we can all get the news about how to evacuate" Gee THANKS Grimmy McGrim. I needed that boost of reassurance to kick start my day. Continue complaining about your tuna and dramatically announcing our registration deadline.

On second thought, no. Please don't go back to doing that.