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Anyone else still OOW?? I'm in I think west region, not on fluency. NOTHING!! - broke

Posted: Jan 31, 2014

why are you asking us... go call your supervisor and - get on fluency now

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It makes no sense to ask us if we have work or not... if this were me, the second I had NJA, I would be on the phone and wouldnt stop calling till someone got me work.

Have work in East n/m - CF

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I'm in the west, on Fluency and absolutely NO WORK - anon

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Not just for my *accounts* but the entire western half of the United States. Something is very wrong ... for the ENTIRE western region - half the country - to have so few reports is very, very odd. In order to get work, we would have to be added to the Eastern region.

Those working in the eastern region might not have work for very long, if the western region employees don't get some work soon.

Thank you. I was starting to think I was alone! This is crazy already sm - broke

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I am PT and have only a couple of hours in for the entire pay period. My mgr usually sends out a list of how many jobs for each hospital but I can't even remember the last time I got one! I'm a couple hours into my shift, checking every few minutes and nothing!! The butterlies in my stomach are starting to make me feel nauseous. This is extremely unusual for a Friday afternoon.

No, it's not just you, it's been this way for about a week now - anon

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There has been absolutely no work in the west this week. I have no idea what's going on but I'm sure the story they would tell us is "no one is dictating because it's Superbowl week."

I'm getting nervous too. I might understand a hospital grouping or a few facilities being out of work but an entire half of the country?

I can see a WHOLE LOT of western workers getting switched over to the east since they've been griping non stop about the Overtime, and we're sitting here with absolutely no work at all. Not a lot of western employees are going to be able to endure the NJA for very much longer - myself included.

Do you continue checking throughout your shift? I am tempted to just walk away sm - broke

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and hope for work tomorrow. I'm not making anything checking for work so why bother at this point. I'd rather make myself productive in other ways and not make money. I just feel like I'm going to "get in trouble" if I just walk away. It's sort of a trapped feeling.

Walk away ... you mean, log off? - anon

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Oh no, you won't get in trouble. If you have no work you're allowed to log off after 6 minutes of NJA. You just have to fill out a Remedy ticket (choose the "out of work" option for "reason for ticket"). You'll have to decide if you want to try and make it up on another day or take PTO. Since tomorrow is the last day of the pay period it's kind of hard to make up a lot of hours before then (plus, what if there's no work tomorrow either?) so I request PTO for the hours I'm missing. But, eventually I'm going to run out of PTO if this keeps up.

It's a company policy to wait at least 6 minutes with NJA before logging off, but as long as you meet that requirement and fill out a Remedy ticket you're free and clear to log off for the day.

No PTO for me as I am PT. I'm just curious how the rest of you sm - broke

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handle this situation. I do not have a lot of free time to make up work and I do not have PTO. Oh well. Another day of not making any money from this company.

Oh Lord, no ... I couldn't do that ... single mom here - anon

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I'm full time for the insurance and all about the PTO when I need/want the day off. I do earn more when I'm working than with PTO so I'm losing valuable income that I need to support my kids, by being out of work this way. If I didn't have PTO I would go under. I'm sorry you're in this situation ... it's not ideal for any of us but not having the PTO option would make it a thousand times worse.

I would ask my supe re. the procedure/protocol for ... SM - Matt

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no work/OOW during your scheduled shift. They cannot make you continuously log in/out, in/out, ad nauseum... without paying you at least minimum wage ... That's the law. MTSOs can like it or lump it, but that's the law.

When you do ask them, you'll find that they won't ever give you a straight answer, though, not in writing, anyway. Whatever they answer, they know that they'll be up against the wall. Try it.

Thanks Matt. I have both spoke to and emailed my mgr and of course I did not get a straight answer s - broke

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She says we are expected to make the time up but if we can't to use PTO or excused-no work. I do not have PTO anymore and I refuse to babysit computer 24/7 without compensation. I do have the protocol for OOW situation in writing, about 10 of them and they are all different. I asked what everyone else does here just to see how others handle this.

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