"Be prepared to be ignored," reads a cardinal rule from www.tempnyc.com, one of several Web sites aimed at temp workers.

And you have a lot of temp workers stuck in the same assignment for years and years.

Manufacturers are big users of temp workers, and they may have accounted for most of the losses in this sector.

"A temp worker doesn't have secure work, doesn't have health insurance or many benefits," he said in Spanish.

Policies regarding temp workers tend to differ between companies.

The woman, a 26-year-old music student and temp worker, had even included the dimensions of the room, a bit of honesty in advertising that appealed to her.

We can always use temp workers.

Lynch spent his early years in New York City doing what he called "totally mindless work" as a temp worker.

Furthermore, the real wages of temp workers in the U.S. actually went down, on average, by 14.7 percent between 1989 and 1994.

From the "Kelly Girls" of the post-war years to today's contract software programmers, temp workers have become an integral part of the business landscape.