A scared temp conversation

Two temps arrived together this morning, just before time to fire it up. As they entered the suite, one temp sort of wrinkled her nose, and the following conversation ensued:

Temp 1: This room smells bad.
Temp 2: This rooms always smells bad. This is just the first time you noticed.
Temp 1: I guess this is what a project smells like.
Temp 2: It smells like temps and fear. Mostly fear.

Yeah, when the time gets short on a project, the fear level rises. Right now, folks are approaching the trapped-in-a-small-room-with-a-hungry-tiger level of fear. Sure, we saw lots of projects posted in recent weeks, but they've staffed already. Will anybody be staffing once we get cut loose? It's a crapshoot.