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America's Pride - no work, is this normal for this time of year? - see message


Posted: Jan 27, 2011

I've worked at America's Pride since last spring so I never went through a holiday season with them before.  Work started drying up around Thanksgiving, and over the last few weeks, has been almost nonexistent.  I am currently making less than $10/day, sitting here for hours, watching as not a single job on my accounts come in.  Lately, no jobs for ANY account come in.

Is this usual for this time of the year?  Should I be worried about that recent email we got with the weird excuse about the lack of work?

What was the wierd excuse? - nm

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Most companies have a weird excuse for every - single month of the year. nm

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Yep - always slow between... - apmt

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November until about March.

There was a technical issue last week, too - That may have been part of the problem - nm

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