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Why is it when you are having a great production day, - Backwards Typist

Posted: Jun 07, 2010

the work seems to disappear? I was doing over 400 lph and now no work. This happens every time I have great lph. Can companies do a switch-a-rooney, keeping the work away from people or can the platform be 'fixed' that if you hit a certain lph, no work will download to you?

I'm really curious about this. I've been watching this happen for a couple months now.

some or most route work which GETS IN THE WAY. sm - mt3

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I do not get it either - what is the difference if they pay one person XX amount of dollars or they dish out the same amount in smaller denominations.

Unless they overhired and want to give all a wee bit to keep them dangling, while everyone's bills get behind and the MTSOs door starts revolving.

I'm telling you sometimes it feels like the these business heads got their education from the University of National Enquirer - tuition 10 dollars, degree mailed upon receipt.

They dont want the higher-paid MTs to be making the - high line counts; they want the - sm

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cheaper MTs to be doing more. That way they pay less for more work. And of course, it keeps the new hires/Indians etc. believing that they will actually be able to make money at this someday. They figure the higher-paid, more experienced MTs have already gotten their share of the wage-pie, and they should be content with that.

What I wouldn't give to wake up some morning, turn on the TV, and see the MT industry as headline news, for one or more of MANY possible reasons.

I'm definitely not a high-paid MT. I'm making what most - Backwards Typist

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other MT's on this board are making. Wages cut in half last year and drowning.

well, you know what? they're only concern need NOT be my personal earnings. sm - mt3

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not when I work production, that puts my earnings MY BUSINESS and not for anyone else to control.

They are just suppliers - we ARE the business.

irks me.

Yes, thats been happening to me, too. Also, have you - ever complained about anything -sm

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to your supervisor, and then for the rest of the day, gotten nothing but NJA or crap-work? I'm sure getting tired of THAT little game.

I don't complain anymore. It doesn't help. It makes it worse. - Backwards Typist

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I get ignored when I complain and I don't get any answers for a month if I have important questions.

Similar thing on last day of the work week - its a pattern all right

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On the last day of my work week I run out of work whenever I get within a couple hundred lines of the next bonus tier. Since it happens more often than not its pretty obvious someone's cutting off my work flow at strategic times. Its disgusting how greedy they are that they would begrudge us this small amount of money, which, when withheld (stolen) from several us over the course of the year, probably makes a big bonus for some suit instead.

How can your work flow be "cut off"? - hmmm

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Did you ever think that maybe everyone is trying to make up lines and perhaps the work has just run out? If you feel there is a personal vendetta against you why not speak up and ask your manager instead of making silly accusations? BTW, just how much do you think the "suits" make?

To hmmm... - me

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The suits make too much...they take cpl away from the MLS and if you look at their annual report, gave themselves some nice hefty bonuses. If they want to work 18 hours a day, that's their business, but why make all that dough when you don't have time to spend it? They forget it's the MLS' in this company that even allow them to do business. Not a good thing to forget.

Cutting off work flow - ex-Transcend MT

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I know for a fact that your work flow is being cut off, and I was told by my former TL that they needed to make their line count also, and had the same pressure on them, so they probably took work away from the MTs, and I also would have a stream of work, and then suddenly nothing, particularly toward the end of the week. After about 6 months of this, I decided that this was due to over-hiring, cutting certain people off so others could make their line counts and so on.

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