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What MTSO in their right mind would hire extra help before a holiday - Soon to be Homeless MT


Posted: Dec 02, 2010

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hiring before holiday - nn

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Unfortunately, sometimes people wind up taking off more time than expected for shopping, socializing at holiday time and leave the accounts hanging. I used to work in house at a service and about 1/3 of the girls working there would work like the dickens up until the last couple of weeks. Once they knew the last paycheck they were getting for Xmas was set, they just blew off work from then on. Figured that money wasn't coming in time for shopping, so what the heck. Made it tough for those of us who did work.

Sorry for you if you got hired and don't have work, but I do understand MTSO have to cover their butts/accounts.

Wishing you luck.

an MTSO who doesn't want "dilettantes," perhaps? - sm

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I received an ad today for a company who wanted applicants to start before the holiday, rudely stating that "Dilettantes NEED NOT APPLY!" Put me right off them. If an MTSO can't be polite and professional in their advertisement requesting applicants, then they most certainly have other problems.

That's the problem. Most MTSOs ARENT in their right minds. - The entire industry has become sheer lunacy.

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