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...high expectations pervade a company that's growing so fast that entire meetings revolve around how to phone-screen the countless job supplicants; recently more than 400 people applied for four openings. "I had five interviews with five people on two different days, and this was for a temp job," says an ex-employee. Amazon detractors are easy to find. The company, like any growing society, has developed a caste system that embitters some in the lower orders. "I hated working there," says the ex-employee. "I was totally underutilized. My bosses were bad managers who just happened to sign...
...only had $20 per student, we would end up cutting a lot of our programming," says Jimmy Carter, president pro temp of the Duke Student Government...
...free and apparently unlimited in the multiple kitchens.) Everybody we meet in the halls looks just like Shemmer--twenty-something guys in blue shirts, khakis, dress shoes. With all the backslapping and put-downs, we could be in the MAC as easily as a corporate headquarters. We meet a temp in the kitchen and the talk inevitably drifts to fraternity life at college...
...staff say temp workers sometimes bring new problems...
...They don't want to hire full-time people. They'd prefer to have temp people," says one chef, noting that a formerly full-time position was recently replaced with a part-time...