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Fact Checker - those of us who have read these boards - ndmt

Posted: Sep 02, 2010

for a while know you must be "that guy" whose responsibility it is to come here and do damage control. Whenever something big happens in a company or an MT gets a raw deal, there is always someone who attaches themselves to a thread to blame the MT - obviously their quality sucked or clearly they didn't show up for work or everyone else is getting laid off so why not you.

Here's the thing - we see you a mile away. The fact that you randomly decided to show up on the boards the day WMX laid off a bunch of people and you come out against people who just got laid off from their jobs tells us exactly what you're doing here. Just like standing up at a funeral and saying people die every day, deal with it, you are not doing your company any favors with your callousness.

Let these people vent and don't tell them how to feel about losing their job.

It is just WMX trying to divert attention away from what THEY did to their MTs - That is painfully obvious

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They are just trying to create a smoke screen hoping that the "dumb" little MTs will get sidetracked and stop telling everyone on here to STAY AWAY FROM WEBMEDX. TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS. Let's beat them at their own game.

They didn't do it to ALL of their MTs and I would work there in a minute! - If I were looking for a job

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They let some MTs go because they didn't need them, for whatever reason. They kept some that they do need. That's the way it works. It's the way business has always worked and always will.

You can go clear back to the book of Ruth in the Bible. People were all gathering at a certain place every day to see if anyone was hiring. If they were, they may or may not get hired. They hired the best available until they ran out of work to be done. People, that's the way it works, for crying out loud!

They could do it to ANY of their MTs - is the point here!

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"Didn't need them for whatever reason". They keep hiring though. That's the problem. They just decided to dump a portion of their workforce without giving them a single option to keep their job. That means nobody's job at Webmedx is secure because they might do it again at any moment.

All businesses hire, let people who aren't working out go, and hire others who will work out - That is just the way it works

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Businesses hire people.

They let some of those people go if they aren't needed because of unforeseen circumstances or if they just aren't working out.

Then they hire new people, hoping those new people will work out. If they don't, they let them go and hire someone else to replace them.

That doesn't make them evil.

There is usually a process to not working out - not just a sudden email

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Some of those laid off were there for years. They were never told that anyone had a problem with them or they weren't working out. Just a group email, no other explanation. I think someone who has had a good working relationship with their employer deserves something better than that. A chance to change accounts, change shifts, do whatever it takes to keep working. Not just hit the highway, we don't like our "old" employees regardless of quality of service, we want "new". Yes that is evil.

As mentioned below, that's called "Cleaning House" - See message

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Maybe some of the people that have been there for years should have gone years ago.

I think it depends on whether the people there for years were flexible or inflexible - Thinking Out Loud

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If you have someone who has always done it this way and you want them to do it another way, that may be the determining factor. If a company is taking the business a different direction, they get to decide who they want to take with them. Maybe someone has been there for years, but they may be stuck in their ways or stubborn and unbending. I can see that those people need to be let go so the company can try to make changes that are necessary in this really tough business environment. On the other hand, if the person has been there for years and someone just fires them because they don't like them or maybe they have a cousin they want to put in their place, that would be wrong. We really don't know and probably will never know the reasons. That's why companies have people to run them. They are either successful or not. Time will tell.

Would you hire all these laid-off people represented here? - I would not

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I would rather start with people with a better attitude and those who were more mature, like one of the people who posted above. She already had 3 job offers and took one of them though. The rest? I haven't seen anyone I would hire if I were an MTSO, and I am not and never would want to be.

I would not hire people with no empathy either - blind authority kissers

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I wouldn't want to work with anybody with your attitude either. "Laid off? Too bad! Suck it up and deal!" People here are working through their pain and feelings. Obviously you have neither and can't conceive what its like for anyone else.

There's appropriate ways to work through feelings and then there's just plain silly - We have seen both here

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The silliness is just a big turnoff. I keep asking myself how these people ever got or kept those jobs in the first place. I would much rather that someone more mature had those jobs.

If you hate silliness go read elsewhere - nobody forcing you 2B here

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You'd rather someone more MATURE had jobs? I guess that means all the young people in the nation, or people with a sense of humor, would all be unemployed if YOU had YOUR "druthers". Good thing nobody died and made you God.

The thing that bothers me on the silly messages is the total lack of common sense - Please see message

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Personally, I've been shocked by the lack of common sense when I read those messages. I do have a sense of humor and love to laugh, but those comments were sad, not funny. They demonstrate a lack of understanding of business among other things. Maturity has nothing to do with age in this case. You probably have older MTs acting out along with younger ones. I'm not in the position to hire any of them, but if I were, I wouldn't.

Lack of common sense with Wmx suits too - from their recent behavior

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I don't give a hoot who YOU would hire or not, especially since you admit you are in no position to do so - and you're starting to sound like a broken record there. Where's the common sense in stating constantly YOU wouldn't hire people when you DON'T?

The problem is the revolving door - throwing out the old for new. Continuting this practice, eventually everybody will have worked for Webmedx and be "cleaned out" so they will be "forced" to offshore because they can't find anybody "qualified" (i.e. "new" and not previously used and abused by Webmedx). Those of us currently employed there are outraged that our jobs are this fragile and our suits are this crazy but THEIR jobs are "secure".

My 2 cents - anon

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For those of us who have lost our job (mine included - thank you very much India) this issue does not seem silly or immature. In fact, it seems very real and causes fear. Fear of losing everything you have worked so hard to acquire. Fear of not being able to find another job because the MT jobs have all ended up in another country. Fear of being on unemployment for an extended period of time. Fear that the next company that does hire you will do the same thing. I may not have a "business" mind, but it seems to me that the more these jobs are outsourced,the more our economy sinks. One job in another country with our economy and job market in the disastrous state it is in is one too many. One says "silly", another says "immature" - I say "fear". Maybe it is time for "business" to have a heart, delve out some respect for the workers, show appreciation. All in all...without business no one would have jobs, but without people to work for that business there would be no business. Maybe it's time "business" realized that we as employees are not "a business"...we are "the business". We are workers. We are the people that help build business. We are the people that stand behind business. We pour our knowledge, hard work, aching backs, sore wrists and fuzzy computer eyes into business. We care. We want business to succeed. We are on business' side. Why is it so horrible for business to be on the side of the employees? Why is it so difficult for business to stick up for the employees. You call it business - I call it wrong. On the news I hear them say America needs to "create" jobs. I say America needs to "retrieve" jobs.

Your particular message is well written and not one of the silly ones - Worth reading

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The silly messages don't contain information. They just use silly slogans. Your message has information, plus! I'd like to see more like yours.

It does not make US feel good to work for a company like this! - housecleaners! Ha!

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It shows us we mean nothing at all to our company, that our jobs might not be there any day we check our email, and that work ethics are demanded of us and we are nagged constantly to do more and do better, but in the long run, we are as disposable as kleenex NO MATTER IF WE DO THE BEST JOB OF ANYONE. On one hand we are patted for being "remarkable" then we lose our benefits, half our wages, and (if we still don't quit) our jobs - what kind of crazy mixed message is this!? "Thanks for the great job you do - now get out"!

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