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BS "Patient Safety Compensation Plan" - Sick and tired


Posted: Jan 20, 2015

I have never hated a company as much as I do Nuance!  They should have called it the "Screw the employee compensation plan" because that is just what it is.  I feel like I work in a third world country and get paid 1 or 2 cents a line - that's probably next!  Last paycheck even though I had 99 percent QA and 2 percent QC, I figured it out I made about $9.00 per hour.  I'm sick of this and can pretty much go anywhere for this kind of money.  Can you say CORPORATE GREED!!!

Exactly - K.C.

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Exactly! It's a real mixed message when the company repeatedly tells us how important our work is, but pays us what we would get at an entry level fast food position. I barely made minimum wage last week for editing hundreds of reports.

I would have hit the like button in agreement, except it is such - a travesty.

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Signed,

Desperateforescape.


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