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I have a very simple question for MQers - but one I think is very profound

Posted: Mar 08, 2010

Let us say it's April 1st. You're not going anywhere. You're planning on working and you report as scheduled throughout the pay period. How many of you can predict, let's say within 5%, what you'll make during the pay period with everything taken into consideration?

does the term . . . - voice

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NIL mean anything to you? That is prety much would we will be making. ZIPPO, NIL, NADA.

I couldn't even predict within 5% before the changes - fluctuating pay

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Some days I get my primary and familiar dictators and make great money, other days I get bounced all over the court and make squat for money, other days I get NJA and make nothing.

I never know what I will make and so with the changes afoot, it will make no difference to me. All in all, I still make less than my 18-year-old, so who cares.

hahaha - absolutely ZIPPO - Fed up to the gills and mad as hell

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I used to happily type along and make about 200 lines an hour. Now, I struggle to get 100 lines. The sound quality is crap - static, squeaks and other nonsensical garbage comes through such that you cannot hear the doctor or what he is saying. And yet it is so darn hard to get work with another company it seems.

When you know you could make more flipping burgers at McDonalds, there is SOMETHING WRONG. I got an education to do this job. Why bother to get an education if I'm making less than I would at McDonalds? So, here I vent.

The Willy Wonka Answer - The best way to tell you.

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There's no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There's no knowing where we're rowing
Or which way the river's flowing

Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing

Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing

Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they're certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing

Sooooo---No way to know how the river of work from MQ will flow -- if you will have straight typing, ASR, good dictators, bad dictators, clear audio, static audio, or any work AT ALL as you travel through the Wondrous Boat Ride that is MQ.

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