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work pools/performance punishment... what to do? - NotNewMT

Posted: Oct 21, 2009

It has become obvious that a company is putting us in work pools, NOT to get improved TAT, but to either play favorites or to give the primo/better dictators to the MTs who cannot handle the crappiest dictators. I have noted that I have had the same lousy dictators over and over again, no matter what time of day I work or which days of the week. I never seem to get the ones that I consider better dictators, nor do I seem to be getting the long consults (which I also like). I checked the system - easy enough to do. Oh, these dictators have been in the system and some MTs have been getting a lot of these same dictators. Oh, by the luck of the draw, I have been missing them all for weeks? Yah, right. Now, I know that it is the company's right to run their business any way they chose, but -- when it comes to being paid by production, everyone should be getting a mix of work. In other words, suck it up and everyone learn the hard dictators, too! Anyone think it would do any good to complain or will I just get even more garbage dumped on me? Thanks for the rant.

sounds awful... - oldmttttttttt

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Could there be some cherry picking going on? You can complain but it generally doesn't help.. Good luck but I totally know where you are coming from.

work pools/performance - BOMT

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I have the same problem. I've been on the same account forever and my shift has not changed, yet the halfway decent doctors have disappeared and I seem to get the same crappy ones night after night. Ironically, one of the worst dictator I have ever see I get his reports one right after another every night, yet I rarely get any other dictator in a row like that, I mean for like an hour or more. And the excuses I get as to why this happens don't cut the mustard. This industry has been reduced to a sweat shop and there is no such thing as being able to depend on this job for any kind of financial stability. It basically could suffice as a second job but that is about it.

per moderator, it's okay to give company name. - n/m

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n/m

Hmmm... - Horski

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LOL! Probably will depend on the mood of the boss that day!

I wouldn't complain, but can you just email that you noticed Dr. so and so has not been assigned to you for quite some time and you wonder if there is a reason you haven't been chosen to transcribe him? You know, a "just wondering" thing.

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