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I'm back - now let me get this straight - missindale

Posted: Aug 19, 2010

I never intended to be back with MQ, but they bought the company I work for. Now do I understand correctly that since I've been gone MQ has eliminated ALL bonus and/or incentive pay?

A horrible nightmare - Years-ago-MQMT

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Now, that seriously would be a horrible nightmare I would hope to wake up from--my company being bought out by MQ and going back to the Q. Good luck. When I left years ago, they had eliminated bonus and incentive pay.

Yes. You are correct. - not to mention

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Docking you 3 cpl for QA submissions over 5% of your lines.

And they think of us as "customers" now instead of employees.

You even have to submit your own tickets through "QCare" now instead of emailing support.

My advice would be to run away as fast as you can. That's what I'm doing.

MTs as "customers"? That sure doesnt bode well for - how the paying client will be treated, does it?

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nm

After dealing with payroll this last week - and the run around I have

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gotten, it doesn't seem to me that they treat their "customers" all that well.

At least, that's the impression I got.

seeing as how Kaiser sued them for fraudulent line counting - customers not treated well

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Welcome to the Q

Run where? - Doomed

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MQ is buying up the smaller MTSOs and the goal is to take over all. I believe they will eventually take over the whole industry because nobody can compete with them financially thanks to the slave wages paid to MTs, offshoring, etc. Best to find another career.

MedQuist - snowskiier

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This is just an awful nightmare I keep thinking I will wake up from. Spheris looked like a cakewalk compared to this. I am so tempted to just quit, but hate the idea of job hunting. Oh, well, it can't be too much worse than this every day, right???

Sure it can. - Take me, for example.

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They didn't pay me the PTO I requested on my last check. Also, there are questions I have asked them regarding my pay all together that they have basically refused to answer or are just sweeping away like I didn't even ask. I believe they owe me A LOT of money.

Instead of over-nighting me a check to fix the problem (like they did the LAST time this happened to me), they are making me wait until we get our regular checks on Wednesday.

Because my check was so short last pay period due to the error, I have no money to buy groceries until we get paid on Wednesday. I'm down to 10 eggs, 3/4 loaf of bread, a package of Kool-Aid, a few slices of bologna, and half a pack of American cheese slices to feed myself, my child and my dog (no dog food left).

Normally, I'm not THIS strapped, but with my pay steadily declining over the past weeks/months, this is how it has ended up.

Trust me...I have been looking and will be away from this place (and out of MT all together) very soon!

Good times!

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