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Technically, Microsoft didn’t fire Hanscom. The 30-year-old has worked for a temp firm, Todays Staffing, since he moved to Seattle from Anchorage in the summer of 2001 — mostly on contracts for Xerox, which runs

My experience has been companies are less lenient with temps. If they don't like someone they just have to call the agency and tell them to send someone else.