ACME TEMPORARY SERVICES

by Linda Eisenstein

 Full Length Plays

Musicals

One Acts

Monologues

Theatre Music

 Comedy

15 minutes

1F or 1M

20's & up

Bridge, a personnel recruiter with a machine-gun laugh, enumerates the benefits of signing with an outrageous temp agency for artists and misfits whose motto is "Ack me if I care".

 

 

Kathy Landin, Actor Training Studio, Kansas City, MO

"Hilarious" - nytheatre.com

"A hysterical slam against the corporate machine" - Off-Off Broadway Review

"Gut wrenchingly funny" - Entertainment Today (Los Angeles)

"A comic wet dream for anyone who has ever held a temporary job" - NoHoNews (Los Angeles)

"my pick as the best entry in the Alleyway Theatre's annual 'Buffalo Quickies'." - Buffalo Beat (NY)

  • Published in Even More Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann, 2001)
  •  EXCERPT

     

    Here at Acme we deal in reality. We know what the contemporary corporate market is looking for: warm bodies, hungry bodies, desperate bodies that will chase the carrot and bend to the stick until they drop, even though anyone with one half-blind eye can see that the days of a permanent pensioned labor force has gone the way of the dodo.

    In short: temporary employees are toilet paper. Toilet paper! We know that. They know that. And at Acme, we want YOU to know that. Because if you are toilet paper, fit only to wipe the ass of the system, then you might as well be GENERIC toilet paper.

    It's all summed up in our Acme philosophy: Ack Me If I Care.

    See, that is the beauty in being an Acme client. When you work for Acme, you do not need to care. These bastards aren't paying you enough for you to care. If they want you to dress like you care, or pretend like you care, they should have to pay more. Just like with toilet paper. It costs extra to get the squeezably soft brand. At Acme, we don't care about your rough edges. Leave splinters in the system's hemorrhoids -- ack me if I care. For $8.50 an hour, no benefits? It's all they deserve, honey-bunny. (CONTINUES )

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