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<font size="+1"><b>Zine:</b> Temp Slave!</font><br>
<b>Publisher/Editor:</b> Keffo<br>
<b>To subscribe:</b> No subscriptions available at this time.<br>
(Single issues available for US $2 from:<br>
Keffo, P.O. Box 8284<br>
Madison, WI 53708-8284)<br>
<b>Review by:</b> <a href="../../../../www_subdomain/review/favorite/boe.html">Jenny Boe</a><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>"T</b></font>EMP SLAVE!" is a zine about the world of temporary employment. The editor, Keffo, is unapologetically pissed-off, ranting mercilessly about temporary agencies, the companies who use them, and the corporate mentality that has made
low-paying, no-benefits temporary work into a fact of life. TS! always includes a lot of commentary about the social issues of temp work -- as well as some biting satire -- but a
good chunk of the magazine is taken up by the true-life tales of temp slaves
throughout the country. You can read actual horror stories like "Wholesale
Ream Job," "Building a Fuckin' Parking Garage" and "Temp Labor at the Suffield
Prison" in the latest issues (#8 and #9 are currently available). A lot of these stories are really funny ... but they're also sort of disturbing as they detail the indignities forced upon
people just trying to get through a day of work. Interspersed with these are
statistics, news, comics, and some smirking takes on corporate "thought."
Issue #8 also features stories dealing with sexuality in the workplace, a
section about temp work overseas and even a presidential endorsement from
Keffo: "Vote My Ass in '96!"
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<font size="+1"><b>"I</b></font> quickly got a job selling gift certificate books over the phone. I was treated wonderfully during training because I was fluent, confident, quiet,
and had a penis between my legs. The person being trained with me was
experienced in telemarketing, but was part of the 51 percent of Americans born
without a penis; so our manager repeatedly offered to show her his. (Though
she declined, she did receive a lengthy description.)"
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<font size="-1">("Young But Not Dumb," Issue 8, pp. 15-6)</font>
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<font size="+1"><b>"T</b></font>he new killing ground in America is the workplace. Every day millions of people march off to the death houses, the concentration camps of modern day society. My struggle is not to hop on the train to the new death houses. Nor is it my struggle to create more death houses. You'll not find me on the side of people who scream for Jobs! Jobs! and more Jobs! Give yourself a hand job. My struggle is to find my way out of the day-to-day death march. It's the only struggle I care about and the only conviction I'm willing to fight for."
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<font size="-1">("Death March," Issue 9, p. 14)</font>
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<font size="+1"><b>H</b><font>aving worked as a temp for over a year, I'm all too familiar with some of the situations described in this zine. It's comforting to know there are others
out there going through the same thing (or in most cases, a more insane
version of the same thing) and to see how they found ways to cope with the
insanity of it all (like using the postage machine and copiers of a bigoted,
oppressive company to produce and mail a gay newsletter). While TEMP SLAVE!
has a lot of humor in it, it's all dished up with a dose of harsh reality. The
writing in TS! varies from clear and cohesive to rambling and spotty, but this
is part of what makes the zine so real: as Keffo says in response to a letter,
"I'm for giving space to people to explain their lives free from the clutches
of academics, professional journalists, people who slum in the lives of people
for a living." TEMP SLAVE! takes you on a journey through the temp's view of
the corporate world, cracking you up on the way, but never straying far from
the cold facts that are an insidious part of life for so many of us "temp
slaves."<p>
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