My life is interesting

[jarandhel]

Got a call from Adecco this morning, they had a temporary assignment for me. It's only three days, but I'm making 10.98 an hour which is officially the highest salary I've ever drawn in my life. I'm working at the International Association of Fire Chiefs, and essentially what I'm doing is calling all the fire departments and fire fighting related organizations in and around Dallas, Texas asking for membership lists and stuff so that they can conduct a poll to gauge interest in an event they're hosting there, and make the event better. Frankly, so far, I'm not having much luck... companies do not like giving out contact information for their employees to strangers over the phone. It's also not really the "internet research" based assignment I was told it would be, though so far the internet has indeed been the richest source of actual contact information for the fire stations in Dallas county. I don't mind that too much, it just makes me wonder who comes up with the job descriptions for assignments like this. I've really been doing more cold-calling than searching on the internet. My boss at this job is also kind of weird. Her boss has told her that it's probably more effective to email or fax to obtain this kind of information, but she's resisting doing that due to fears that it will take too long to get the information that way. Again, don't really mind that so much, it means I'm employed again, if only for three days.

Comments

[per-akh.livejournal.com]

Good luck! And I miss you!

~Duo

[ex-casteylan314.livejournal.com]

Good luck and congrats on the job. But I wonder if it's even legal for companies to give out that kind of information on their employees. It sounds like that would be covered by some sort of data protection or privacy laws. It certainly would be completely illegal in the UK.

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

They're supposed to be doing massive hiring in my department this year if you're interested, but it may be hard to work around your school schedule.