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Subject:Re: It doesn't look good for Tina the Tech Writer From:Emoto <emoto1 -at- gmail -dot- com> Date:Thu, 6 Oct 2016 15:58:46 -0400
Yeah, that definitely happens. Awful.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 3:51 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> Well, it was kind of a joke, but still, in most cases where an employer
> lays people off and then offers them their jobs back as temps, they make a
> lot less and get no benefits. The improvement in earnings comes when you
> get a gig with a different company that has already tried to
> outsource/offshore their writing to cut-rate contractors once and has
> suffered the consequences of the attempt.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
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