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Curious, are you annoyed or energized by - sm

Posted: Sep 22, 2010

the games that some employers put out there to increase our production? Not only does it annoy me, but it seems to demean the importance of our work to put it in a game format. But maybe that is just me.

Here's my opinion (sm) - BTDT

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Years ago, when I first moved from in-hospital to at-home, I thought it was really cool... I got some cool extra cash and some cool stuff in contests and production "races" - biggest producer in a day, things like that. Then, I went to work for Precyse. They had these "virtual pizza" parties and so everyone and their dog would log in and try to work and the system would bog down because they didn't have the bandwidth for that. Multiple calls to tech support resulted in "keep trying" which sort of ended my interest in participating. Eventually, I left Precyse and the company I'm with now never has enough work to have contests. Also, I have a husband who has a great income, so maybe I became less obsessed with making every dime I could. And frankly, now, with ASR being 95% of my work, I'm so burned out I couldn't care less. I put in my required number of hours, I hit the bare minimum line count, and I move on to other things, like taking classes to get out of this crappy line of work and find a new career before I'm too old for employers to want me. To me, contests don't demean the importance, because I would still produce the same quality I always do, and I understand why they do it (when they're seriously behind in TAT, for instance, or clearing up a backlog when they first take over a new account, but IMHO, the days of incentives and bonuses and contests are numbered because the economy won't support it now that ASR has infiltrated almost every company worth working for. JMHO.

Definitely annoyed. Its always a short-term gain for a long-term loss with - the games. I hate it when I see them. nm

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Could you be talking about... - Annoyed

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The stupid football game that a certain ROM launched today. Ughhh, I hate all the stupid games and stupid weather reports (cloudy skies with lots of red). Waste of my time.

uh-huh. - nm

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Could you tell what we would win from the Challenge? I never figured it out. - nm

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probably just the joy of the game. - nm

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