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Don't care anymore - lovemydane

Posted: Apr 09, 2015

If your quality metrics expectations weren't set so humanly-impossible-to-achieve high and you weren't so nit-picky about simple, insignificant errors then maybe we wouldn't have so many accounts on the "consecutive audit failure" list. And what else do you expect when you throw people into accounts they know nothing about and still expect them to perform at 100%, 100% of the time, while still making lph and keep within the limits of your stupid inactive time and all for pennies. Kiss my grits MM! I feel like I've sold my soul to the devil with this company and am at my wits end. I have never before had such a negative attitude toward an employer as I do with MM and I've been an MT for over 20 years.

Ditto everything you said - except make mine over 30 years

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PS: Are you watching the Great Dane puppies of SDP or do you love another Dane? If so, excuse me. :-)

Great Dane - lovemydane

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I am the happy and proud owner of a 5-year-old 180 pound CKC registered purebred Dane. Therefore, I love my Dane lol. Not watching the Great Dane puppies, too busy being miserable working.

Ditto miserable working - but watching the puppies

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between jobs to keep my sanity...

I had a Dane/German Shepherd rescue dog once, but that's as close as I've come to a Dane.

Great Dane Lover - I only hope,

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you love your Dane enough, that you didn't get the ears cropped. I love it when they are left the way when they were born. Very sweet dogs!

Did not - lovemydane

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get them cropped. He's goofier looking and not as intimidating looking lol

You do love your Dane - Floppy ears rock!

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So nice to hear. Let them be dogs! I bet he's adorable!

Don't care - Full of Rage

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When I worked for MM, I was so full of rage, I could hardly stand it. I would have an anxiety attack with every e-mail, every QA, etc. I hated everything about the company; my account (which I was not promised when they hired me), my supervisor, the ESLs, the VR, and most of all, the pay! I was broke all the time and it only got worse. I couldn't meet bills and yet I kept working and working and kept slipping backwards and I knew I was on the verge of being fired, so one day, I logged on and got a QA review and couldn't even look at it and wrote to the b--ch I worked under that I quit. I was sorry I did that much. I should have just turned off my computer. To this day, I cannot tell you the hate I feel for this company and what I had to endure. I have a friend you just started with MM and she is having a horrible time and I told her, keep looking and find something else, as it will only get worse. Same thing that was told to me by another MM MT.

I can only hope this company goes away in every sense of the word.

I truly feel your pain! Get out and find something else. Be a dog walker! I bet you would be great!

Don't care - MTnomore

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Your post could have been written by me. Well said. One of the worst, most inhuman companies on the planet.

dont care anymore - phatty

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Amen in the amen corner. Now have finally decided to polish up that resume and get the heck out of here. I cannot get my line count back up becaues every single day I log on I have yet another new account with yet another bad dictator. Lord help me, this has been miserable to say the least.

I cannot stand this place anymore - sm

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But when I go I want to go with a bang. I want my voice heard, I wonder, if I called the head honcho and had a little chat if it would do any good. I just feel like I can't leave without at least saying my piece. My TSM is actually great, well as great as she can be working for this hell hole, I fully undestand she has a job and family to maintain just like the rest of us and has to stay in step to keep her pay. This problem goes way higher than the "keepers of the POD." I know it would probably do no good, but in all my work life, I have always spoke my mind when things were wrong, not being able to confront the boss here is driving me nuts.

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