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Do you always make your minimum requirement - MH

Posted: Mar 16, 2010

on your lines? I have the worst time staying focused and get worried at the end of every pay period if I haven't met my minimum line requirement. I get paid more on minimum wage anyway.

Do you always make your line minimum requirement?

You're not alone - distractible

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I have ADD, so I have to struggle to keep my focus. Sometimes I fall below, but not by much. Sometimes I'm over, and I have made the (now extinct) monthly bonus several times. It just depends on how hard I try to keep on task.

Its getting harder and harder, with all the "improvements" - my company keeps making to the - s/m

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transcription software they use. These days it's slow as molasses. I have trouble staying focused, too. Not that the work is boring, but because I continue to make less and less money, even though I'm working longer and longer hours each day, 6 days a week. I worry nonstop about how I'll pay my bills each month. I paid part of my gasoline credit card last month, instead of the whole thing, and now the collection calls have started. Next month I've got to come up with money to pay my taxes, and make medical and dental copayments, not to mention picking up the slack on whatever our chintzy insurance company doesn't cover. Whether or not I make my line commitment depends on so many different things. How good the dictators were that day, whether or not I was having trouble staying warm. (I try not to spend too much to heat the apartment, and just pile on more sweaters.) Every month when I pay my rent, I'm scared to death that that will be the month my landlord sends a notice saying the rent is going up. I worry about whether the groceries I was able to buy with what was left from my last paycheck, after I paid rent, utilities, and car insurance, is going to last the full two weeks until my next paycheck, when I'll be able to go to the store again. Savings are gone, and now I'm wondering if I can raid my 401K to pay my income taxes this year.

So yeah, focusing is getting harder and harder. Especially once the anger I feel at having to work so much overtime to make my minimum lines, and not getting paid for them, starts to boil over. Once I start to get pissed, it's nearly impossible to concentrate on work at all. I have to set a kitchen timer on my desk to go off every hour, just to keep reminding me that time is passing.

The other thing I do is allot a certain amount of time each morning, before I start my shift, to JOB-HUNTING for something better.

I feel the same - LucyK

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I feel exactly the same way. I can't concentrate on my job because I am so angry at working for nothing, I don't want to waste all my time with the stupid research when I have to worry about making line count every day, and I really feel this is a waste of my time. If there were any job out there to go to I would quit right this minute.

Line requirements - suebillsc

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It is getting harder and harder to meet requirements. They keep adding things we need to do and taking away incentives, giving less pay and saying "We are happy to announce" this improvement which keeps track of your time better and the work you do and puts enormous pressure on us to produce, produce, produce.

MH - quantum vis

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Because it was getting harder to make a decent check, I make it a point to focus and get all my lines. If I don't my family finances suffer. Just turn off your internet when you're working. Do what I do. Don't let anything distract you when you are working. It becomes second nature after a while and you'll see the result in your checks.

by the way, yes... I am going through what everyone else is, but my method is working for me. I maintain my line count and often exceed it. Best wishes and don't let them get you down!

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