In 2006 while working at a public relations firm in New York City, Wilson Cleveland was inspired by then one year-old YouTube[7] and the potential of online video to "make little TV shows on the Internet for clients to tell their stories.

[9] and featured guest appearances by Milo Ventimiglia,[10] Craig Bierko and Illeana Douglas[11] The first four seasons premiered on YouTube, Blip, MySpace, Daily Motion and Facebook.

Episodes of the fifth and final season premiered first on My Damn Channel and YouTube before becoming available on iTunes, MSN Video, Blip, Daily Motion, Facebook and various video-on-demand platforms including Roku and Boxee set-top boxes and Verizon Fios.

[12] The Temp Life added an average of 85% more viewers with each season[13] and had reached over 18 million upload views when Fast Company called it “a bona fide phenomenon” in September 2010.

[14] The series received generally favorable reviews with critics calling positive attention to the minimal Spherion branding contained in The Temp Life episodes.

In the season finale cliffhanger episode titled, “Where in the World?” Paul and Caitlin are accidentally outsourced to a call center in Thailand and Nick falls unconscious after drinking some bad coffee.

Having lost everything in the lawsuit, Nick takes a temp job transcribing video resume submissions for Celltons' Head of Human Acquisitions, Alina Deloris (Rachel Risen).

Celltons has become the number-two cell phone button company ever since Eve Randall (Illeana Douglas) fired Alina and put him back in charge of hiring temps.