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I can't be THAT good! - Curious Jo
Posted: Oct 13, 2010
Y'all are freaking me out! All this talk about PM and being watched when uploading or downloading a job, etc. etc. etc. I am only a lowly second-tier MT. I have been corrected a lot and it's all valid -- or an opinion based correction. All my corrections have fallen in the minor minor category, but the way y'all talk you'd think I'd be let go by now. OMG people! Our QA person just transferred to some other department, and I suspect all your observations may have been at least part of what pushed her away. So of course I will pay more attention to what this newby will have to say. But look people, if you haven't been out in the workforce lately, here's a clue: EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE employees are being watched, expected to OUTPERFORM themselves as well as everybody else, and being asked to do it for LESS MONEY. Our Government is encouraging this by providing monetary encouragement to the employers to HIRE MORE PEOPLE!! -- thus making that unemployment percentage go down. AND, the only way employers can hire more people is to reduce the pay for everybody. Do you think MedQuist will be left out of this wave?
So, good grief, get over it already! Keep working as best as you can and OMG, quit nit-picking too. Do you have a job? Are you short on work? Can you do something about it -- like ASK your CCM how you might be of more help in meeting scheduling issues? Don't cut off your nose to spite your own face. TALK TO YOUR CCM -- at least ask if you can somehow make more money and meet a scheduling issue too! Become flexible and you will become more valuable. It's not just about production you know!
As for the "checking for errors" window that pops up, that happens on INCOMING jobs to my desktop -- and for the OUTGOING jobs, it is checking for all KINDS of issues -- not necessarily quality. Like maybe, virus/software issues, all that bad stuff on the web, or prying eyes. MAYBE the word "errors" represents more than we realize. GEEZ Get over yourselves already!!! Hey, good luck too. I mean, it IS hard keeping up with all the changes and still making money. Just do the best you can, and if that ain't paying the bills, well baby, maybe you better check into going back out into that wonderful workforce where you have to communicate politely with all those people IN PERSON.
UGHHH!!!!!!!!!!
Talk to my CCM? - Been there...done that...bought the
[ In Reply To ..]T-shirt.
Any other fanciful suggestions?
I had NJA for my ENTIRE shift for 4 days in a row. And I'm a tier 3!
When that happens to you, you will have license to tell me what to do about my situation. As it is now, I have the Dept. of Labor involved.
K?
I can't be THAT good - Jo
[ In Reply To ..]change shifts? What are your priorities? Like I said, I can't be that good.
My priorities? - To do the job I was hired to do
[ In Reply To ..]and for MQ to fulfill the contract I signed when I was hired.
Change shifts?
Sorry...not all of us have the luxury of working whenever it suits MQ. Sure, I will put in extra hours when I can...work OT when I can. I try to make up NJA WHEN I CAN, but I will not watch my children grow up through a window or miss every school function so MQ can make millions off my back.
I signed a contract that states work will be available during my stated hours (yeah...it actually says that in my contract...and there is no fine print...I've talked with attorneys at the DOL already to see if MQ can somehow weasel out of this). My priorities go far beyond being chained to this desk 24 hours a day in order to care for my family. I have a life beyond this computer.
Anyway, I have been dealing with the Dept. of Labor over nonpayment of wages and also some other issues. They are extremely interested in many facets of how MQ is conducting business and how so-called employees are being treated.
In all my years as an MT and with all the companies I have worked for, I have never worked for a company as low down and underhanded as MQ.
And before you tell me to go...don't worry, I will just as soon as I can, but not before I can do my part to have some eyes opened.
I had it like you once...and not so long ago. Then one day, it just changed...just like that. Now I earn pay checks that would make the biggest, toughest man you know get down on his knees and cry. Last check was $108.00 for 2 weeks because they didn't pay me for my lines (I made more than enough to be over min wage) and they only paid me 1 hour PTO when I requested more than that.
So...maybe these things don't happen to you, but they ARE happening to some of us. And I'm glad for you, but the solutions of "talking to your CCM and being flexible" are not always the fix.
Gotta run...a report finally came in after 13 minutes of waiting.
what do you really want - Bad Karma
[ In Reply To ..]bought the t-shirt? Save your pennies so you can afford to be out of work.
You're not, don't kid yourself . .. - HA
[ In Reply To ..]FYI: People are not getting their pay cut EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHERE, EVERYWHERE. In fact, most people I know have gotten yearly raises and have not had their pay cut at all!
Everybody I know in my circle has gotten a pay - raise at least yearly
[ In Reply To ..]EXCEPT ME FOR THE LAST 6 YEARS. In spite of the economy, everybody else is still getting raises that I talk to UNLESS YOU WORK FOR MEDQUIST.
MQ was at cutting edge of US pay-cut trend - alphamt
[ In Reply To ..]How do U define pay cut? We have been experiencing reduction in pay since the start of Speech Wreck. Been with MQ since then or just lately? The trend continues, and now we are footing the bill for software glitches and paying IT by having downtime and lost production (PAY). If you need a picture to get that, you are either management, privileged with another income in your household, never check your paycheck, have too little experience to know better, and/or an American ignoramus.
has all the salary people's pay been cut? - tired of struggling
[ In Reply To ..]I have been lucky that I don't have a lot of issues that others have had. Work has been steady most of the time. But I remember several months back when there was this company-wide posting in MQCentral about how they weren't going to do their across-the-board pay raises this year. WTF? When did we ever get something like that? Someone screwed up big time letting us, the ones who make it possible for their big paychecks, to see that email.
Re: Struggling--That's probably why they did - the email purge!
[ In Reply To ..]I hate this company.
I totally could have written this myself! - justmoi
[ In Reply To ..]Amen sister
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