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When former apprentices become competitors in the same market

The three of us started as apprentices in the same program eight years ago and now we're all running our own small operations but we keep underbidding each other on the same jobs in our area. We used to share information and help each other out but now there's this weird tension every time we run into each other and none of us wants to be the first one to bring up how competitive things have gotten.

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You and your old training buddies now underbid each other for jobs, and no one will admit how competitive it has gotten.

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