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Wondering if many of you have been short on your minimum hours sm - shortcake


Posted: Jan 16, 2013

week after week.  I do not think I have worked my minimum hour requirement since a few weeks before Christmas.  Of course this is due to no work or very little work available. 

yes... - I have been short

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Due to lack of work.

I'm limited around my work schedule due to other commitments so - shortcake

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its not easy for me to make up all this time. I do not know how any of you are doing it who are the primary income earners. My heart goes out to all of you!

I am working around it to . . . - H

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I go to school also and still have a child at home who I have to take to taekwondo three times a week. It makes it really difficult when the work isn't there in the first place. Then when I do have time to make it up, everybody else is too, and it's not there.

Yes, since October--but I have Partial UE, so it helps - Lee

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