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How come MM can't pay us for looking up and typing research - nme


Posted: Jun 27, 2013

The acct I am on, we have "free text cc's." you have to go into a seperate website, search the doc data base for the name and then type that info on the report. You know how long that takes?  This acct I am on has 20 pages of rules.. I did not ask to be put on this acct, I was switched over and now am on 100% QA as I entered a DOS incorrectly.  Can you say fed up with this for minimum wage?? It is just too much. Retirement is looking thank the Lord.

Minimum wage is all I make - mt

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Between not being able to understand the dictators and research, I just make minimum wage. If you should make less then you will get make up pay to bring you up to minimum. When I do work, I feel like I work so hard for so few dollars. Not to mention NJA all the time!

I feel for you - would not do this for min wage

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I would never have foreseen this industry becoming a minimum wage job, but it has. I wouldn't do it though. There are plenty of mindless jobs I could do for minimum wage.

Yeah, too bad this isn't a mindless job, all the resarch we do is ridiculous - nme

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Worth more than a minimum wage job bagging groceries or making coffee at starbucks. Too bad they can get flunkies to do this job for peanuts. We are just basically typists any more, not professionals. They want us to be professionals and pay us like typists or mindless drones

Especially since we clock in under - production...

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If they want us to be clerks and do all this clerical work, then we should be paid hourly. It is getting worse by the day with all the extra freebies we have to do before we can even transcribe the dang report.


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