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Wondering what everyone does when OOW..flex or not flex sm - Flex or not to flex

Posted: Jan 02, 2015

What do you all do when you are OOW? Do you flex and come back later in the day, flex to a different day of the pay week, use your PTO, or take time off without pay?

I usually flex and make up later in day or another day, but really getting tired of that, but need the money, even as little as it is these days. Makes for very long days, as you all know. Starting out working first shift and then having work to midnight is awful. Besides, do not feel right about cutting into other peoples' shifts, although I am sure they are cutting into my shift..hence little work. Evn thinking of just taking the time without pay once I am semi-retired soon. Need to get out of that chair and get some exercise. Life is too short.

My TSM wouldn't allow - sm

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flexing, saying we would be taking the work from other MTs. One day, the system was down on Nuance's end, and I foolishly assumed it would be okay to work past the end of my shift to make up for the downtime. Within 15 minutes, my TSM asked me why I was still working and said it was not allowed as I was stealing work from the 2nd shift! It didn't take me long to get sick of getting two hours of work in an 8-hour day, so I eventually quit.

We are only allowed to flex within certain time windows--sm - anon

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which would normally be Friday for me and I have other stuff to do so I often just use my PTO.

Some of these TSMs are brutal - newbutold

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I must be lucky as my TSM pretty much lets me do whatever I want. I normally never run out of work except for holidays and I sometimes will work later for a little while but normally I just take the shortage in hours because I don't want to take jobs away from others as I don't like it to happen to me

That is the reason behind the certain hours--sm - anon

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You are only allowed to flex when it is understaffed, that way you are less likely to be causing others to go OOW. I have mixed feelings on it. I hate to take away from someone else's shift but it is difficult to know what is truly equitable during these situations.

I'm getting tired of all the above. - THEY OVERSTAFF!!!

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And then TSMs want to put us on different accounts that have some work. I did that last week and ended up making myself ineligible for the higher tier, but the biggest problem is I COMPLETELY WORKED MY WAY OUT OF RECEIVING THE LAST QUARTERLY BONUS because I made stupid errors. I didn't kill the patient, but I left out the word "to" on one report and capitalized digoxin on another. (These were the only 2 reports audited for the week.) I'm not going on backup accounts ever again. They need to stop overhiring on certain teams. Some of the TSMs and their COMs have not a clue about scheduling work and don't realize the ratio of minutes dictated to minutes transcribed. Idiots run this company!

Ah, if only overstaffing were their only ignorant low-down - practice. Read the entire thread...

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...from 1 or 2 days ago that starts with ...My hands on the keyboard, ready to type on a holiday...

But read the whole thread and let that sink in. Descipable what they have permitted HR and the supervisors do to us.

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