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It would be nice to get a little respect from - DISRESPECTED

Posted: Jun 07, 2013

MTSO companies. Being a long-time loyal employee/IC means nothing to most MTSO's. I've worked for the same company for around 4 years, through ups and downs, feasts and famines, and the minute it gets a little busy, they hurry up and hire more MTs. That proves to me that all they care about is making money for themselves and is just a slap in the face of the MT. Maybe if you must hire new MTs for busy times, how about giving work first to your long-time MTs when it gets a little slower before you just put it in a pool and it's every man/woman for themselves to get what little work there is. If companies did this, I think a lot more MTs would be happier, and I know I myself would have a lot more respect for the company I was working for.

Respect - MT72

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and another thing.... has anyone ever gotten a raise for staying with a company for a long period of time? Instead, we get pay cuts.

Don't know about anyone else - but all I - DISRESPECTED

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ever got were pay cuts, reductions to keep clients happy, etc. etc. etc. Soon will be able to make more at McDonald's and I'd probably get free lunch, health benefits, and a paid vacation for once!!

sounds like a place I used to work - and a major reason why I quit

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15 MTs fighting over 7 jobs = a feeding frenzy and a lot of ill feelings.

Fighting over work - JAVAmt50

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I know the feeling. It's like that where I work at, too. It's like a pack of dogs fighting over scraps. They put a few doctors in a pool and assign 10 MTs to a pool of 5 doctors and when 20 jobs roll into the pool, you are lucky to get to do 2 or 3 of the jobs. If you don't type them quickly, they get yanked back from you and repooled. It is hard to remain loyal when you are not getting enough work to do.

exactly! and then they have a daily - quota, and if you

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do not have enough lines to meet that quota, even though it is not your fault because the work is not there, they threaten you with termination. It's not fair and it's just not right! I hated it. Glad I quit where I was that did that. so frustrating.

Morale - Angie

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It's a proven fact that high employee morale provides higher production, but this concept flies right over the top of their heads.

As long as we take it, that is what they will dish out, but many of us have no choice.

Morale - anon

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Kudos for a job well done, a "good job" on meeting your goals, some kind of "thank you" when you above and beyond your required duties...NOPE...we are just numbers who are required to do X amount of work on X days in X amount of time and the second you defer from that, the emails start coming. But, they are in no hurry when you make requests of them like more work, days off, etc. Our value is LESS that that of a robot.

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