Same people, different place: Part One

Every temp who has worked on several different placements will remember the moment that realisation hit. Not so much the revelation that training will always be patchy at best, supervision limited, and the rights of the temp worker non-existent - although these are indeed truths about employment universally acknowledged - but rather the realisation that across each separate placement - albeit in entirely different sectors, with entirely different companies - you have been working with the exact same people. Sure, you may be sitting next to Rachel instead of Ruth, Sean's hair might be slicked back with Wella instead of VO5, but the essentials remain as unchanging and immutable as the Monday morning despair.
You will be surrounded by a gallery of recurring characters, each of whom I intend to examine in detail over the next few days of Real-life Observation. Stand by for nail-biting exposes, including; The Swot; The Old Git; The Lad and The Bitch, among others!