Boss
Boss noun - The person (as an employer or supervisor) who tells people and especially workers what to do.
Temp
Temp noun - A worker (especially in an office) hired on a temporary basis.
Both words in one sentence
- A series of Radio ads for the temp service AccounTemps between a Boss and an HR manager detail the problems when the HR guy fails to get Bob from AccounTemps.
Source: Bob from Accounting -
Herbig, the extremely Genki Girl boss of the temp agency who casually mentions things she did in her youth like participating in lesbian orgies, doing coke in a public restroom and picking up random homeless men for sex... Rube.
Source: Series / Dead Like Me -
Like Goes with Like: There's Lisa, an office temp, who falls in love with her boss, Derek Charles (a black man) and attempts to seduce him and break up him and his wife Sharon (also black), by claiming that she had an affair with him.
Source: Film / Obsessed
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