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MQ doesn't need to fire or lay off - whatever


Posted: Mar 29, 2010

The evil Q doesn't have to fire or lay anyone off, they can just starve us to death with no work. 

MTSOs - mttoolong

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Let's face it, MTs...this profession is in the trenches. The pay is worse now than it ever was. IC positions are worse off than employee--at least as an employee you have benefits. ICs are treated wrong--any time there is a contract involved there is supposed to be an option for negotation. What MTSO do you know of who will negotiate anything with an MT? None I've ever seen. And then they want to control your every move once you've signed, start treating you like an employee when you're not.

It's all a dadblasted, pitiful shame. I used to be proud of this profession; I am not anymore. Now I just want to do my job and be done. I'm still proud of my finished product, just not the corporate end of things and the way people who know nothing about this profession treating it like we're simply robots doing piecework in a factory.


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