America's First Bikini Temp Agency Wednesday December 18, 2002 http://tv.yahoo.com/news/wwn/20021218/104022360005.html By MICHAEL FORSYTH CHICAGO -- A controversial new temp agency is making a splash -- by providing sexy secretaries decked out in skimpy bikinis! The bosomy bombshells employed by Womenpower Staffing Services do everything from filing, typing and reception work to taking dictation. "These aren't just some 'hot babes' you send over for a lark on the boss' birthday," a company spokesman insists. "Our young ladies are trained professionals who have top-notch office skills." One temp temptress, a 36C-24-36 blonde named Lisa Romkirk, types 90 words a minute, is familiar with seven major word-processing programs and can also do bookkeeping. And although her most impressive asset may be the way she fills out a thong, she takes her job very seriously. "I'm here to do a job," leggy Lisa says in a whispery, Marilyn Monroe voice. Neil Ticovsky, CEO of a leading computer software firm, makes use of the bikini beauties anytime one of his regular staffers is sick or on vacation. "It's really a great morale booster," says Ticovsky, 41. "Since we started using the Womenpower agency last July, absenteeism is down 70 percent and productivity is up 45 percent." At first, he admits, he was concerned that the tantalizing temps might prove to be too much of a distraction to his male employees. Instead, he found his staff is working harder than ever. "A lot of the guys will put in overtime and push a little harder so they can be named employee of the month and impress the temps," he reveals. Full-time female staffers aren't so enchanted with the swimsuit-clad secretaries -- charging that they detract from the dignity of the office. "I don't know which is a more sickening sight -- those half-naked bimbos wiggling their tight little tushies past my cubicle or the stupid, slack-jawed look on the faces of the male office workers as they gawk at them," fumed one female employee who asked not to be be identified. "Last week I saw one of these so-called temps perched on the knee of a manager taking dictation -- she might as well have been giving the guy a lap dance." Curvy Kim Rosslow, a bikini temp, doesn't know what all the fuss is about. "It's not like we're naked," the 22-year-old brunette points out. "We're required to have a college degree and we're much classier than our competition, the Nude Temp Agency -- they're really unprofessional."
