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Anybody see the update from Peter what's-his-name - Tired

Posted: Apr 02, 2010

on MQ Central just now?

Nothing we didn't already know, really, but I think I'm going to go vomit anyway.

some of us . . . - voice

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cannot even open it. is that a sign that i am out the door, here let me get my hat and the door hits me in the *ss.

Basically says - Tired

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The MQBoard of Directors has made the following decisions:

1.The Board determined that the discretionary 401(k) company matching contribution will not be made for the period January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009, and

2.The Board did not approve across-the-board merit increases for employees in 2010.

Then goes on to say we are all so great and they appreciate us so much...blah, blah, blah.

Oh, and - Tired

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This is all to "maintain sufficient cash flow and reduce the company's cost structure to remain competitive in a continuing difficult economic environment"

Difficult economy my arse. This has become a convenient excuse for every business out there. - mrs.krabs

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The only ones suffering from the economy seem to be the small businesses. Big business got bailouts from the stimulus. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." They need to be left high and dry. Sorry, I haven't taken my dose of Screwitol this morning. Feeling grumpy.

Could I please.... - needy

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Pretty please, buy a dose of that Screwitol from you?

Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie... I need, I need, I need! Come on, I'm in really bad shape!

Just because the economy is bad, it doesn't mean - dnr

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people don't get sick. Plus, I doubt all their contracts are up and they promised everybody cheaper product. Oh wait, they did promise any facility who uses ASR gets a big price break. Of course, though, we make up for the "lost" revenue by getting a decreased pay rate for something that takes us longer to do because the idiot ITs can't give us a program that works.

Ya know, I'm just soooo tempted to copy and send - that memo to all MQs clients,

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along with my foreclosure notice.

So do we not get our one-millionth of a cent per line raise? - Anon

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NM

Hang on, I have to go return my Ramen noodles ~~ - notfunny

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NM

Hang on! I have to go turn over the grilled- - dog-food sandwich I was making.

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i cant afford to waste it by letting it burn ----------------

More like we're spending all the money to get Spheris. - nm

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That is EXACTLY what it's all about. Have you read the latest news? - sm

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Corporations are stockpiling money (reserves) and hoarding. According to head of U.S. equity strategy at Bank of America, "Cash is piling up faster than companies can figure out what to do with it." The article goes on to say that companies are either hoarding this money or using it to buy up other companies. It says, "Even looking at the companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index of blue chips -- and stripping out financials, which are required by regulators to keep large cash reserves in order to cushion against risk -- the cash on hand number is still rather monstrous: $1.1 trillion. To put that in perspective, as a percentage of companies' total market capitalization, that $1.1 trillion is more than double the ratio seen before the crisis." MORE THAN DOUBLE before the crisis. What does that say??

That would say to me, "Get every penny you have - OUT of the stock market - FOREVER.

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Not only should we boycott the stock market, we should boycott the banks that make this possible. We should boycott the products or services of any company that does this. And FINALLY, we should refuse to apply for, quit working for, or at the very least, go on strike from, any MTSO that "stockpiles" profits for purchasing more fluff, and making itself more of a monopoly, at the cost of its workers. Enough is frickken enough.

They don't have a clue. - mrs.krabs

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They'd bite their noses off in spite of their faces, as the saying goes. The transcriptionists put food on their tables. They don't care two cents about their employees. It sure doesn't seem to affect their end-of-year bonuses now does it?

Forgot to mention. - We took your money.

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All you hardworking oldies who have been with this company forever, we decided to take away money from you each year and created Benchmark for you to now use for your benefit.

WHAT? You mean RETROACTIVELY they are - backing out of contributing to - sm

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the 401K, even though that's supposedly one of the benefits? How do you spell:
L-A-B-O-R B-O-A-R-D?

MQ's MOTTO should be "We giveth and we taketh away more." - MTFossil

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xxx

been there - done that

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you mean no roach clips for Christmas this year? they actually sent out roach clips to everybody a few years ago. i musta been really good because i got TWO!!!

Remember the broken clock and the chapped stick? Wow! - MTFossil

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I would like to tell them where they can stick that - Chapstick! no message

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OMG! From our MQ Peter? I thought you meant AHDI Peter. - See message below!

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I DID NOT KNOW IT WAS FROM OUR MQ PETER. I thought you meant an email we received from Peter of AHDI about Benchmark.

I just read our MQ Peter's post on MQCentral.

ARE YOU KIDDING ME? No merit increase?

ARE YOU LISTENING BIG WIGS? YOU HAVE SAID THAT TO ME FOR THE LAST 10 YEARS! YOU KEEP COMING UP WITH EXCUSES! I AM ONE OF YOUR BEST OF THE BEST LIST MT's. ARE YOU GETTING YOUR RAISE AND BONUSES THIS YEAR? HOW ABOUT SHARING, AFTER ALL, IF IT WAS NOT FOR US, YOU WOULD NOT BE GETTING YOUR PAY INCREASE OR BONUSES.

golden parachutes - planetspinz

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Peter and his minions have to hold onto the money they will get with their golden parachutes when they leave MQ to screw over workers in another company.

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