content: yeah, this is a good answer. it's one of those ridiculous, unsophisticated loop holes companies use to get around fairly employing people.  just to vent a little, where I'm working now we have a brand new staff since just before I started there (because they all quit due to poor working conditions; people), and, for whatever reason, the management has OK'd new employees to train new employees. The managerial system has been crumbling for quite some time there, and I'm afraid now it's really going to show some damage. They've hired several people into management position who are known by everyone to be lacking skills and knowledge required for those positions. It's absurd what happened there.