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Same amount of work, less pay? - Ground down

Posted: Dec 04, 2013

Does anyone else suspect their company is fiddling with the software, thereby paying less to MTs for the same amount of work? I switched accounts last summer, within the same company, to a hospital that pays more, sure that my pay would increase. Lo and behold, I just noticed on my paycheck that I'll make about 5,000 to 8,000 less this year than last, and, if anything, I'm working more hours. Truly infuriating because there is no way to prove it.

Yep, I've noticed it too :( - Depressed

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Something's sure fishy.

agreed!! - all work no life

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yah, they get more and more and we get less and less but expect 100% and do not forget all the name spellings, finding cc names that you KNOW they have in front of them instead of making us search and seach and lose time to find info they already have access to! GRRRR

Absolutely true - Ground Down

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And I bet there isn't an employee who works in their offices, from the CEO to the janitor, who doesn't get a raise every year.

5000 to 8000 less? - me

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I'm lucky if I MAKE 8000 dollars. I made 20 to 40 thousand less back in 2008. I used to make the big bucks and they chipped away 20 to 40 thousand less than what I was making. By 2011 I was making 15 thousand dollars a year. I mean back in 2008 is when the ball started dropping.

My pay went down too...sm - BUT

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My QA average went down like half a percentage point. They want work faster, produce more lines, get paid more, yeah right. My QA score went down so my CPL went down. I figured if my pay went down, then I'm slowing down to make QA. I know I'm producing less but I'm at the point that I took a pay cut so now I'm putting in the bare minimum. I show up, shut up, work, log out, make QA (hopefully), make my hours and line count requirements, and that's it! I'm not going to work even faster to produce ever more lines to make the same as I was. That's working harder, not smarter. Granted my CPL went down 0.01 but on average per paycheck or per month, that equals a bag of dog food or a tank of gas or even groceries. It adds up. I'm so trying to get out of MT. They want to cut my pay, then I'm doing the bare minimum. AND even if I do get back up to my old CPL, it's the very top pay scale and will never go higher anyway. No raises ever! So done with it all!

So true - - Ground Down

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I'd also love to get out of MT. I've been doing it for 16 years now and, you're right, they just want more and more work, with never any raises and now I think my company is cutting pay on the sneak by changing the line count software. I think the lure of working at home is what keeps MTs working now, nothing else. That's true for me, anyway. And the companies know that, hence they know they can cheat us and we all just keep working. Wish we could all unionize.

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