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Christmas gift from MQ? - just wondering

Posted: Dec 23, 2010

I started in July and was wondering if they ever give us anything at Christmas. Are you all laughing now?

nope sorry - NJA Queen

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Two years ago right before Christmas they cut our ASR pay from 70% to 60% and then last year right before Christmas they announced the FTR program which basically penalized anyone for asking for a second listen from QA. This year I am hoping they decide not to give us a gift because apparently the MQ secretary is pretty lousy at picking out gifts for the underlings.

I am certainly not laughing, I remember my first Christmas with MQ thinking maybe this company would be different. You may get an email card from your CCM, but that would be about it. Personally, I take $5 out of the paycheck right before Christmas, go to the dollar store and pretend it is my Christmas bonus and then I get something I actually want instead of a mouse pad or chapstick keychain or a broken clock. Did I miss any previous MQ gifts?

Yeah, we got Sof-flex gloves - Those were kinda cool

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I ordered another pair and still use them. Merry Christmas to everybody!

PS Sof-Flex gloves may have been pre MQ takeover - My bad

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Can't remember if they were from MRC or whether we had been swallowed by the Q then. Been here toooo long.

Weren't those gloves for MT week? - Fossil

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wasn't there some kind of note thingie - that we were supposed to attach s/m

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to our monitors? I never did. I don't remember if it was for Christmas, either. When I worked in the office, we had a Christmas party, and they had collected recipes and put out a recipe book, and the receptionist wrote a poem that went in the book,too. But in the past umpteen years? Nothin'.

spoke too soon. This year they messed with the shift differential - NJA Queen

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Bah Humbug! Way to send out an email on 12/23 and make it effective in 3 days with Christmas in between. Only at MQ. Looks like me and a bunch of other people will be switching our hours. There is no way I am working late afternoon/evening hours without a shift differential. Might as well give me my day shift back!

Gifts from MQ - anonMT

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Cold, hard cash is always preferred, even if it meant just an extra $2 in my paycheck. I wonder how much money MQ could save by not mailing gifts, and giving $$ in our paychecks instead. Truthfully, though, I'd rather have a steady paycheck at a fair rate of pay, rather than "gifts."

Just Wondering - Cynic

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Why don't you do some research and find out what they "gave" all MQ MTs several years ago? (Hint: It has to do with the transcriptionists' lawsuit.)

Oh, puleeze. Just tell us. This is not a time for games. - Need all pertinent info to make decisions. nm

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Thanks so much.

Are you just posting to read your own words. I doubt if you - really have pertinent info. nm

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