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For The Record article about MT pay - Concerned MT

Posted: Sep 11, 2012

http://www.fortherecordmag.com/archives/091012p22.shtml

did ya read at the bottom, Initiate pay discussions? - Ridiculous!

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MModal, I would like to negotiate my pay. Ba ha ha ha.

Pause and think - about it for a moment

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A CRITICAL MASS standing up to negotiate and/or walk out if -MModal/Nuance/Softscritp/Superior Global/whatever company you would like to insert here - REFUSED to negoitate in return would no doubt get attention.

Would it be painless to those fighting to negotiate and/or deciding to walk out? Certainly not. It never has been.

Yet ask yourself if your life as it stands right now working for those companies is painless. What do you come up with?

I totally agree. We HAVE to force the negotiations. sm - shipaddict

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I really wish others would be more vocal to their companies about their pay. I have been to my supervisor, and I've made her give me contact information to everyone above me. I'm even considering writing out a nice, long note to the CEO to let him know how life is here at the bottom. He can read it in his California mansion as he sits by his pool, enjoying his $20 million a year paycheck.

I SO wish I could just walk out -- I'm actively looking for another job outside of MT, but since I'm a single parent, I have no choice but to stay where I am until I get a better offer.

$14 an hour fair? NO.... That would be a $4 decrease - on a bad day!

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What the?

$14 would be the base hourly rate for quota and would not include incentive pay. - Des

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nm

Thanks for the link - dmj

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Thank you for the link.

It was a lengthy article, but it summarized the issues quite well.

Thanks, good article (nm) - MT

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Well, it was definitely good for a LAUGH, that's - for sure! How dumb do they think we are?

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dumb enough to be working as MTs! LOL! - I feel pretty dumb

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I feel pretty dumb right now to have chosen this profession. No respect, no money in it (at least for me), hard work, lots of knowledge required. It feels like sweatshop work to me. I am not staying in it much longer (on my way to something much different), but I do feel really dumb for going down this MT road.

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