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denverbill

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6. The company was paid $28K per person for a 17 day gig? Wow.

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Mon Jul 16, 2012, 03:38 PM

Jul 2012

What a waste of money. That's $1600+ per day and they can't find enough staff because they only wanted to pay them $8/hour, or $64 per day?

The company was trying to take 96% of the proceeds as profit and pay employees 4%.

What a scam.

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