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My income has hit an all-time low. :( - Ripped-Off MT (sm)
Posted: Dec 13, 2012
Last Friday my paycheck for 2 weeks' work was less than $300. How am I supposed to live on this?! My company raised our min. line count rate, and not long ago lowered our cpl pay for VR, which is all we ever get anymore. We also have a higher min. daily required rate. Yet of course, work is getting sparse, especially at this time of year. So I sit and wait, occasionally hitting the download button, and occasionally actually getting a short, almost worthless job spat out at me. After close to 10 hrs of this, I then have to put something like 3 or 4 hrs on my time sheet, because we were told to divide our total lines by the lines per hr minimum to get our "hours worked". I could make more money walking around the neighborhood on trash night and stealing aluminum cans out of recycling bins.
Want me to place a call about that gun being held to your head? - nm
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Regarding the gun to her head - Gertrude
[ In Reply To ..]There but for the grace of God go you.
Amen - anon
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re: "Want Me to....:" - sm
[ In Reply To ..]You know nothing about it.
just ignore the nasty comments below - from ignorant scrooges
[ In Reply To ..]Until someone has walked in your shoes, they have no right to be so smug. I have walked in your shoes, full of despair, have been in this business over 25 years and I know how you feel. I have hung in there through good times and bad, and things always have a way of working themselves out. Chin up, and many of us wish you the best and are rooting for you.
I guess I should have said nasty comments above - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I meant it when I said things have a way of working out. I don't know who people can be so unkind to someone who is at their lowest point. Hang in there.
I think the point was ... - anon
[ In Reply To ..]If this person is an employee what they seem to be describing is being asked to falsify their time card. They can report this to the labor board in their state or federal. They could also check to see if there is legal aid in their community. All of this can be done anonymously.
(OP)- Oh, I fully intend to! I may be po', but I'm not - stupid. Will contact the Labor Board - s/m
[ In Reply To ..]AFTER I've found something else and finally left that dung-hole of a job. Not before. But soon, very soon.
I, too am not sure - Old Pro
[ In Reply To ..]Why people get off kicking others when they are down. If you stay in this job long enough, you, too, will have tough times. How much would it cost to be kind and supportive rather than snarky and nasty?
Not sure, - Me neither
[ In Reply To ..]I agree. We all know how this line of work has come to a screeching halt, but it isn't that easy to change. It took me 8 months to find another MT job 3 years ago and I left MQ. That job lasted four months and I was fired. It took me another month to find a job and a month to wait until I got paid. For two months I made $88.00. I have been on a rollercoaster ever since and I HAVE APPLIED at office jobs, retail jobs, companion jobs as well. I am qualified, but so are a 1000 other applicants. I hope things work out for you and you find something decent; at least enough to pay your bills and for the "gun to your head," just hope you are never in the same position!
The nasty comment person hasn't considered that it - might be HER job one of us goes after next.
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Please do, come join me. I am at MM. - nm
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Aww, thanks! Even when I finally get another job - and get out of MT, it still wont - sm
[ In Reply To ..]be over, not by a long shot. I plan to go after that near-decade of unpaid standby time and overtime with a vengeance.
Make a change... - MT
[ In Reply To ..]I say this in the nicest tone possible, but I really hope you are looking for a different job. There are other MT jobs out there. Also, the way you are being told to calculate your "hours worked" is incorrect. Contact your local labor board and put in a complaint. You can apply for jobs outside of MT and/or go to school. There are many of us who are doing it. I work full time doing MT and go to school full time to obtain a science degree. I'm also a single parent to a teenager. It's not easy, but no one said that life is. It really is what you make of it. Try to rebuild your confidence and get back into the game of life.
go to the Department of Labor - sm
[ In Reply To ..]It is not lawful for MTSO to tell you how to fill out your timesheet. Save the emails instructing you to do so. Print them out. Take them to the labor department.
Ah, therein lies the problem. They made it a point - to only give the instructions by phone.
[ In Reply To ..]I do expect them to slip up, sooner or later. And when they do, I'll be ready and waiting.
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