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Not happy! Nothing new with low to no work this week for my acct, I get that and accept it (sm) - shortcake

Posted: Dec 29, 2010

and I know it's temporary. My problem is that the company I work for requires a daily line count and expects us to work around our schedules and do anything we can to get those lines in. Usually not a problem. But this week is a holiday week and my husband and kids are home, and we scheduled things to do alone as well as with other family members and friends, so when my shift is over it has to be over. Christmas Eve/Christmas morning, yesterday, and it looks like today will be the same, check for work throughout my shift, which means that I am available for work and average about $2.00 an hour!! I am not complaining about not making my usual daily pay, I'm upset that I am expected to keep checking for work for hours on end without any compensation. It makes no sense and I feel like a fool. I am a very conscientious and dependable employee, always work my shift, chip in when help is needed, and now when I cannot get my lines (not my fault), I get a pit in my stomach that I'm going to get a termination letter!!!! I'm sorry, I just needed to vent. I got up to work this morning and no work again and would just love to go back to bed but for pennies (if I'm lucky) I have to keep checking for work.......sorry for being a cry baby, but I'm also battling a very, very cold.

Been down that road - RLee

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Depending on what company you work for - you may lose benefits first and be considered PT instead of FT. My experience was if you did not get your lnies in you were bumped to PT status and lost benefits and then I got the termination letter due to no fault of my own for not getting my line count. It is mental torment when you are expected to work around the clock and keep checking for work when you are hired for a particular shift. I know the feeling - been down that road before. You have my sympathy especially at this time of year when people want to spend time with their loved ones and the word "shift" has no bearing. Hope you have a Happy New Year. :)

Thanks for you reply. I'm wondering if you were with the (sm) - shortcake

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same company....Anyhow, what really gets my goat is that I am PT with no benefits, so where is the logic here. You would think not making any money during your shift would be punishment enough. Mental torment really is what is going on here. Anyhow, I am now 2.5 hours into my shift with not 1 report, zero dollars, and I think I'm going to call it a day. You have a Happy New Year!!

No logic - RLee

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I was with the big "T". What the problem is it should not matter if you are PT or FT - you were hired for a specific shift and expected to be available for that shift and YOU expect there to be work available during the hours you committed to upon hire and not have to FLEX 24 hours a day to meet your requirements be it PT or FT. Even though my work was not there during my committed shift - I always made myself available during the committed time slot so the company could not use that against me. With that said I did more times than not make myself available beyond my shift, but it still made no difference as far as my line count because if the jobs are not there how can you type them. Once I lost my health insurance - I lost my incentive to flex 12-16 hours a day. I guess it is a no win situation. God bless us all.

shifts - willie

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Don't forget - if you need to go outside to make up lines, you would be stepping on another MT's work. Then it got to where the manager would let you know when there was work during high volumes of jobs which was unpredictable. Then everyone would try to make up their lines during that time so you still had NJA.

Exactly. Flexing is a crock. May as well be on-call with a beeper! nm - anon

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nm

that road - willie

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Don't know what company you work for RLee, but the one I worked for, we reported NJA (no jobs available), so I believe they relaxed on the line counts. Didn't your company have a "3 strikes your out? rule. I don't think anyone gets terminated for 1 occurrence in not making their lines. Shifts? Define please. We're supposed to stick with our shifts, but they don't mind it when there are NJA during those shifts. Don't forget - take a 5 minute break every 2 hours. 5 minutes? It takes me 5 minutes to get up from the computer, walk to the bathroom, lift the lid, drop the drawers - whoops, 5 minutes are up! Court reporters get a 10 minute break per 1 hour by law. What's the dif between the court reporters and MTs/MEs in the rapidity of producing sitting in a fixed position for hours causing a chronic back pain syndrome, neck spasms, even sciatica. Please no comments on ergo setups. These conditions are WITH ergo work stations.

I feel for you. sm - anon

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I am at Amphion. I like the company and team and benefits package. But I have yet to make line count since I started there earlier this year. They take my insurance premiums out of my check and IRA now, but I have never heard a peep about line counts not being met. Yet, we all got an email last week about line counts not being met and no one is working their shifts and there is work out there. Well, my one and only account is NJA every other day. I work almost 40 hours a week (actually logged in time) and have not made line count at all. Not once. Even with 40 hrs/week exactly w/o OT (never get to) I'm still 2000 lines under count. If I would make line count consistently every pay period, it would be worth it to stay for the benefits, but having one big check and then one small check is not worth it anymore. I tried asking for more work, another account, changed shift, everything. I'm employee status, not IC, so I will not flex and check back all the !@#$% time for work. I work my shift and am busy or not. I just don't plain care anymore. I figure until I hear otherwise, I'm not in trouble for my line counts not being met. BTW, they are hiring also. Just saw the post today. GRRR

No work - willie

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You made $2.00/hr? Doing better than me! Don't worry, you won't be terminated. MT companies don't want to pay unemployment. I literally begged MQ to fire me so I could do just that, unemployment, and they just would not do it.

Not Happy.... - Speedy Fingers

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I totally understand where you are coming from...I type for the VA and have 5 different VA accounts and during the week of Chritmas I lost 400.00 because there was no work.... It sucks...but the bright side is, I am working from home.... I have a job and it is a job that I do love...just gotta get over this hump!! :D

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