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Labor Staffing Services Company

For over 25 years, Pacesetter is a full-service staffing agency for temporary labor ready assistance. PPS provides custom staffing labor, administration and payroll services.

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Application Questionaires

So recently I ended up taking on a part time job via Labor Ready, usually I stay away from temp agencies because they are one giant cluster-f**k. Honestly this experience didn’t really change my opinion on them, but never the less this post isn’t about that. It’s about some of the insane lines of questioning that you get asked during application processes. I understand that they are trying to…

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Summer Opportunities Commonly Missed by College Students

Are you/do you know a college student who has missed one of these three big opportunities?

Finding a job over the summer is a horrible thing for college students. They have to compete with everyone else in town who is looking for work. They’re having to say, “Actually, I only need a job for the summer.” Luckily, there’s a lot of ways around that. Whether it be plasma or temporary work, there’s always something available to even the least optimistic student.

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In second trimester and I'm hungry all the time lol my brother gets home at 2:40 something, so I'm going to have him go on a walk with me before he plays video games.

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Back to Work: Labor Ready and more

Over the last three years, when I am jobless and nearly broke, Labor Ready usually seems to get me over the hump.  Considering that I don’t have a job and I have a little over a dollar in change, it’s that time again. Friday I filled out the employment paperwork at Labor Ready again. Tomorrow morning I’ll sign in, sit down and hope to get sent out on a job.

Working at Labor Ready isn’t the best job for me. I am physically more suited for a desk-type job.  Oh, I gladly go out and haul trash at a construction site, unload a semi of furniture, cabinets or washers and dryers.  (All jobs I've done at Labor Ready.) However, with the infrequency of that kind of work I often find myself dragging home feeling sore and beat-up.  It's what I have to do at the moment, it's the corner I've boxed myself into, so it's what I will do.

On the days that I am not sent to a job or I am physically unable to, I will need to go to a public library or the workforce commission. These places should offer computers I can use.  My resume needs to be rewritten, online job profiles updated, and employment ads answered. Who knows how long it will take to find a regular job, particularly with my history.  All I can really do, is take things one day at a time.

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The blue-collar temp industry is booming, which doesn't bode well for people searching for long-term, full-time jobs. A look at Labor Ready, which wants to be "the McDonalds of the temp industry":

In the two weeks that I spend working out of Oakland's Labor Ready branch, my 'honest pay' tops out at $8.75 an hour. I'll clean a yard for a trucking firm, scrape industrial glue from cement floors for a construction company, and screw on the caps of bottles at an massage oil company whose "Making Love" line is a bestseller. I'll also move heavy tools for a multinational corporation that repairs boilers on ships and be asked to serve food at Oakland A's games for Aramark, a $13 billion powerhouse. I wasn't able to take that one, but if I had, I would have been earning $8 an hour next to unionized workers making $14.30.

Labor Ready's Oakland workforce is nearly entirely black, excepting the branch manager, who is white. Most of the workers I talk to are searching for stability but finding it elusive. They include homeowners in foreclosure, apartment-dwellers who are being evicted, and residents of motels negotiating for a few more days. And many express hope they can parlay a temp gig into something permanent. 'I've been with Labor Ready for over a year now and still haven't had any luck,' says Stanley, who resembles a young Eddie Murphy. We're standing in a dusty lot in Hayward, 15 miles south of Oakland, surrounded by 300 cars that have seen better days. 'Most jobs are like this one, not looking to hire anyone full time.'

"Everyone Only Wants Temps." — Gabriel Thompson, Mother Jones

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