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Does anyone else have to work harder and harder just to make lines? - Fingers on Fire

Posted: Nov 07, 2009

Six months ago with the Q, I could easily have my 800 or so in 5-6 hours and generally typed over 1,000 a day. Now, I'm finding I'm struggling to make my 800 at the end of shift, even though I'm doing all the same things, typing even faster, etc. Is anyone else having this issue? I have a huge WE dictionary and all the other little tips and tricks and it's never been an issue before.

Thanks in advance!

Yep - NOMO

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I have gone from average of 2200 per day, to 1800 per day, and to now can hardly break 1500, even with better WT than I had at the 2200. $25 to $50 a day gone.

Lower line counts - anon

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Thanks for the reply. I don't know how they're doing it. For the same amount of work I was doing 6 months ago, I'm producing about half the lines or so. I just wondered if anyone else was having the same issue. I spent a great deal of time sick this summer and my lines dropped because I was so ill. I didn't want to die, but at one point, i was so sick, I didn't care of I did. I tried to take a little time off to get better and was told they weren't allowing any more PTO during that period of time (was later told that if I was feeling that badly, I should have taken the time off!!!). I ended up with 9 systemic illnesses from the original one that I let go untreated for 10 days, 14 medications, 3 trips to the ER, countless trips to the doctor, an infected IV from the hospital which gave me a second course of sepsis and a blood clot in my left arm, etc. etc. As soon as I started feeling better, I broke my foot carrying laundry to the basement (thought I was on the last step but had one more to go). 14 weeks later, I'm still wearing the Cam boot because though the bone is pretty much healed, I damaged the structures so severely. During those 4 months or so, my quality and lines suffered (not surprisingly). I had all the medical documentation to back up everything that happened to me, but they didn't want it. They put me on 100% QA of which I'm off now and my lines had dropped dramatically, though they're at least at the minimum requirement.

I just wanted to know if anyone else was having a similar problem or if they're manipulating something to try and get rid of me.

lower line count - sickofit.

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Mine has dropped, too. I'm so sick of this job. It's to a point where you can work anywhere and make more money than doing MT/ME.

lower counts by weighting characters - anon

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It is all in the programming. MQ can control how the character counts are given to the MT and how they are charged out to the client. It is a weighting factor. So what this is saying now is that they have lowered the count so you are not getting the same as before. Bet they raised up the client side though because you know who makes the profit then - the mighty MQ. This place stinks. They were caught doing this before so what is stopping them from trying again?

Way to figure out? - anon

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Is there any way to figure this out with my Instant Text? thanks!

weighting characters - anon

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I am not familiar with weighting characters. Could someone please explain what that means and how it is done? Thank you.

Shrinking line count - mnmt

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Same here. Did anyone's line count match what was on their last Earnings Statement? Mine was way off, fewer lines than DQManage counts. And for the first time I noticed 30+ "Regular" hours paid at min wage. Did anybody else have that?

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