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All the brouhaha about Keystrokes this week... - SheeshMT

Posted: Sep 02, 2011

reminds me of a show I watched last night "Beyond Scared Straight" in which a bunch of teenagers with problems were marched past hundreds of screaming, threatening inmates trying to grab at them and bombarding them with cursing and insults. Some of you KS employees scare me, lol! YIKES! Peace out, dudes - life is WAY too short :)

But I guess life is long enough - KSEMT

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for you to stop by and make a snide comment. :-)

Why yes it is, thanks :) - SheeshMT

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Go back 2 ur cell!

Someone has a superiority complex. - Sheesh Back-atcha

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IMO - Just another MT

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Until you've walked a mile in their shoes, why the condescension? Why don't you turn your negativity into support for your peers? Shame on you!

''IMO'' - sm

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Great post! Sound advice.

Keystrokes is obviously having financial problems, no matter what they tell you. - Suzy Pudenda

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Don't be naive. They will say and do ANYTHING to hide the truth.

Of course they are. The 3-day bank holiday conveniently came right after - the new pay date!

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Moved the pay date 2 days in order to take advantage of the 3rd, 4th, and 5th bank holiday in hopes of having a better cash flow in that extra 6 days.

This is just my opinion - I certainly don't know this is a fact. Just guessing.nm - The new pay date

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nm

LOL! I'll go ahead and add that disclaimer too! - Suzy Pudenda

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We know how lawsuit happy some MTSOs are these days. So, it is just my guess, speculation. what have you that Keystrokes is having financial problems but from actually having worked in the real corporate world, it is blatantly obvious. Whick is just my humble OPINION, of course!

If they were having financial problems, they wouldn't be able to buy up companies. - Speculating

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I know that they spent millions on ChartNet; it was in quite a few magazines and annoucements. I know they bought MTS of Texas, Med-X in Philadephia and one other that I cannot remember the name of, all in the last few months, one in the last 6 weeks. I doubt they would get financing if they were having problems. Just sayin'. I think that there is something else going on, more likely poor management on the accounting side of things.

I think they're gearing up to sell. It won't surprise me if we hear of them selling in the next 6 months, just like WMX did. Similar things happening. Just IMHO.

Have you ever heard of being overextended? Cash poor? - Suzy Pudenda

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They spent all their capital gobbling up other MTSOs and now they cannot pay their employees. This has been the mistake of numerous companies, not only MTSOs.

Huh? We were paid before the bank holiday. nm - HappyKSMT

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nm

How? - justanMT

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That doesn't make an iota of sense.

financial problems - anon

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This sounds exactly like the company I use to work for. First of all refused to direct deposit, that way gave them an extra 3 days to get the paper check to me, pay late by as much as 2 months, but boy you better be in TAT. Then the pay cuts started happening. I wish the MTs the best here.

That sounds nothing like this. sm - tired and old

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We are still paid via direct deposit. The pay dates have changed to the 3rd and 17th - 2 DAYS! That is nothing like what you described.

but - anon

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it sounds like just about everything everybody else describes about your company.

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