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I have to comment on the below posts about not getting paid for standards... - Kiki

Posted: Jan 06, 2010

I'm going to test this out myself the next time I use one. If this is true, sure would explain my slightly plummeting line count from usual no matter how hard I try. That would be some BS for sure.

Makes you wonder why they make that "rule" that we are not allowed to make our own expanders from their standards!!!! AHA! Well, they have no way of knowing, so that is EXACTLY what I am going to do if I find out we aren't compensated for those standards. How many times do we use those standards and not have to CHANGE things. What a crock.

I hope everyone will test this out for themselves and come back here and post.

So typical of this company.....and to just do it w/o informing us.....greasy sheisters!!!!

Can't wait to test this out too! - shipwrecked

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This may very well be the straw that breaks this camel's back.

AMEN on that one!!! How awful! - anon

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If this is true... - Anon

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How much longer are we all going to sit by like morons and let the Q keep screwing us over?

I can't remember a single change over my 16 years, that was made for Our benefit. Not One. First ASR and 20% pay cut, then upping it to 40%. And Team Work. That sure doesn't do a thing for us other than complicate what was once a simple, straight-forward system - eTime. Then we went through the cesspool saga.

They keep dishing it out, and we whine, but we keep taking it.

We never get line rate increases, unless we beg for them, and then IF we're lucky, they'll give us a 1/4-cent increase. What does that come out to, maybe a dollar a day. Big Whoop!

I won't even mention the recent QA/MME abuse.

Paid for standard - old and burned out

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I checked the one report that I remembered having used a standard. I was definitely paid for it.

Ok, this is what I got - Just passing through

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I had two reports this evening both using the same standard, same dictator, had to change only test values in standard. The first I used the standard, the second I did not (copied and pasted standard headings)and typed the rest the same as standard...and the line count was the same for both when I checked on DocQmanage in statistics. I am satisfied I get paid for the lines in standards, what a relief.

Thanks for posting that. Yes, it is a relief. - Kiki

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I guess I'll have to chalk my plummeting line count to something else, like maybe increasing bottle-of-the-barrel dictation.

I guess I was being a little paranoid after reading the post below where someone said a CCM said we were not paid for them. I'm generally a VERY UN-paranoid person except when it comes to this company...........I just hope we didn't give MQ any ideas....haha

Not just you, had me paranoid also - Just passing through

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and that is why I was happy when that second report showed up (like, how often does that happen when you need it) so I could check. I know some companies do not pay for standards and with all the changes at MQ lately, ya never know.

Ooops, I mean BOTTOM of the barrel, not bottle??? haha - Kiki

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Don't be silly, not grammar police here. I - Just passing through

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know what you meant and hate it when people correct other's grammar on here. This should be a place to relax.

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