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Wondering how long the rest of you sit here earning no money (sm) - broke

Posted: Mar 27, 2013

clocking in and out. Punching in and typing 1 or 2 resports, clocking out, a job downloads, clock in, type, NJA, clock out. Punching in and out is time consuming and affects the little line count that I am getting!!! I've been doing this now for 4 hours and I'm done. Fire me, PLEASE, but I am not sitting here without consistent work punching that stupid time clock in and out all day long and not getting paid. I have much better things to punch. I'M SO ANGRY RIGHT NOW AT THIS COMPANY!!! Thanks for letting me vent....

ok, where is the almighty MT who comes on and - says, "well just quit."

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Sorry to sidetrack your post, but I would have figured they would be all over you right now.

Hopefully they are working. BUT believe me, I am working on quitting. In the meantime, (sm) - broke

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I still have work ethic as hard as it is with this company, and when there is no work I just sit here and keep checking for work and wasting my time and day for nothing. I feel if I punch out and just walk away and call it a day that I'm walking off the job. I did not mean to vent so much but wondering what the rest of you do that's all.

I never said just QUIT - sm

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I said to start preparing for the future..Big difference.

I guess you are the Almighty MT, then? - I didnt think she was addressing

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anybody specific. LOL

Guilty soul. - nm

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nm

Guilty for what? Stating the truth? - not me

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x

You just cant help yourself - can you?

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lol

LOL - the Almighty MT probably got fired! ;D - I cant take this much longer, either.

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Once again today, I had to transfer almost $1,000 out of my ever-dwindling savings to pay my rent, gasoline & utilities, because all my MT paycheck covered was the car insurance.

I'm in a weird division - MModal Livestock

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of the company, so I'm not sure what the protocol is in MModal general, but for us and our old program, we work in old fashioned pools. You get a primary, a secondary and a tertiary. When work runs out, you have to wait 15 minutes before you can clock off without receiving work in any of those pools. The problem lies with the fact that it rarely ever goes 15 minutes without one of the pools having some tiny scrap of work drift down to us (which resets the clock). But you have to get your minimum LPH. If you only get a small report every 10-15 minutes, how are you supposed to make your lines?

My boss is a real stickler for the rules (why not, she doesn't have to follow them) and I have a feeling pretty soon everyone in my group is going to be terminated.

The worse part is that I have a second job, so I don't need this one as much and on slow days (which we have much fewer than most people at MM seem to) I wouldn't mind sticking to my primary only, so that the people who have my secondary and tertiary pools as their primary might have a chance without me stealing their work, but I'm forced at occupational gunpoint to steal my co-worker's remaining work. I don't get it. I don't have benefits. I cost nothing to them. It's like being in a life boat and being forced to eat the same amount of rations as everyone else when I'm already full.

And as I've complained here before, my division is riddled with overtime most of the year lately because we're understaffed (it's so strange, it's almost like firing half your employees for no good reason is a bad idea) and all we do most weeks is play catch up until the weekend. So, to solve this problem, what do they do? If you guessed "spend 15 minutes training other MM employees who have no work to use our idiotically simple work platform so they can make some money for a change," you were wrong. They hired completely new people with no experience. Meanwhile, while we wait for the new people to figure out how to do transcription, we've been doing so much mandatory overtime I'm probably going to have to go part-time because I broke my fingers, wrists, ankles, coccyx and brain.

The worst part is my boss is basically really nice. I would prefer her to be more overtly evil. I even feel a little bad for her. She's such a go-getter and really seems in love with this company. I've seen that many times before. What's left of a manager when they're done with them is rarely a pretty sight.

Anyway, this company deserves a lot of anger heaped up on it. Hang in there. But keep an eye open for any job that might drift by. I'm kicking myself. A little while ago sewer maintenance worker opened up in my town. Why didn't I take it... Great pay, decent hours, no memos from the CEO and all the flushed mutant alligators I can wrassle.

I refuse to let these morons waste my time. If I - run out of work, I will give it a - s/m

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few minutes and a couple tries. But if nothing comes in, if I clock out, I switch over to some non-MT work I'm doing on the side, and begin that. It pays better anyway, just isn't a 40-hour-a week job. I then finish whatever project I had for that day with that job, and IF AND WHEN I'm finished, then I log back on and re-check to see if there's any MT work. If there's not, or 1 or 2 jobs come in and then it's empty again, I log out and go on to my 3rd and 4th "jobs" - one of which is school work to catch up on, and the other of which is light grounds maintenance I do at my little apt. complex to work off part of my rent. Or, I use the time to search for and apply to new jobs. And if those things are already done, and STILL no work, I get started on daily-living tasks such as laundry, housekeeping, etc. that need attention too. I refuse to let them waste my valuable time "waiting for work". If they want me to work so bad, then they're gonna have to send me some. Otherwise, there are a million other things that need taking care of.

Earning money - barelyholdingon

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I've moved my sewing machine into my office, and make baby blankets to sell on Ebay. I cut and pin everything at night, and then when I get NJA, I turn my chair around and sew everything together. It's been pretty profitable so far. At least I feel like I'm still "working" and gives me something to do while I'm waiting - instead of getting depressed and feeling sorry for myself.

me, too - not baby blankets

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But selling stuff on ebay on my other computer between jobs. Making some grocery money.

that's a great idea... - KD

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I've been looking for a part-time thing to make money during the NJA gaps too, no luck yet, but still searching. Any ideas, please throw them my way.

I'm not quitting, just waiting and collecting partial ue - mmt

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Getting partial ue. I will never quit. Luckily my DH makes enough so I don't have to work but there is no way I will quit.

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