Sounds like manufacturing work I did . The company would hire and fire people seemingly at random through a temp agency . Perfectly competent workers were laid off in groups for no reason , and they ' d bring in fresh meat weekly to replace them . Bizarrely they had to go through about 3 days of training and bullshit I remember now that I never actually got my accreditation for the training before starting , which we all felt was a waste of our time . We didn ' t give a shit about company lean manufacturing practices , continuous improvement or whatver . We just assembled parts , packed boxes , drove forklifts or generally did whatever our assigned task was with no variation . It was pointless to train us because it was unskilled work . I think it was some kind of scam , they got kickbacks from the government or something for training people and hiring a quota of unemployed people every month . Didn ' t matter to them if they fired those people the next month and made them unemployed again , becuase they could be replaced with new ones and they ' d get another kickback for the next hire . Gah , horrible agency .