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I just read a post by someone who went from MME back to MT/ME - question for you

Posted: Dec 16, 2011

OMG. I had no idea we could do this - I thought once we were "promoted" to MME we were stuck with it. I've never made so little money in my life than I have as an MME … it has been one of the biggest mistakes I've made in my life.

How did you do that, was it as simple as just saying you didn't want to do it anymore? Did your CCM give you a hard time about it?

You're not stuck -- tell your supe to change you back - sm

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I was "promoted," too, a few months back. What a joke. After two weeks I e-mailed her and told her this so-called "promotion" was going to land me in the poorhouse, and would she please change me back to MT status. No fuss, no muss, no questions. It's no skin off your supervisor's nose, so she shouldn't care. It's your livelihood at stake here. Go for it.

Slaps forehead - anon

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You have NO IDEA how much that would help me. I'm going to write her a note tonight to ask. Seriously, for me it means the difference between earning $0.03 cpl and $0.055 for ASR which might be juuuuust enough to save me.

99% of my day is MME work and I've been teetering on the edge of financial ruin since my "promotion" but I thought I was stuck with my MME position.

Wow â�¦ THANK YOU.

MME status change - Once an MME

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Sadly enough I was in the same boat, I complained and queried and tried my doggone best to help others to keep the stuff from coming to QA, but no one cared about making changes, just making dollars so 80% of my work was MME and yeah, I was unable to support myself. I did go back down in pay though, I had gotten a little promotion money for upgrading, what is was like 15% or something? So I went back down, so I'm not making less than I was as an MME but I am making less than I was before I went to MME because about 80% of my work is now SR where I don't make much.

I'm glad other MMEs are acknowledging the low pay - MME too

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there was a post a couple months back that stated that MMEs shouldn't get paid for the whole report but just for the word we filled in because we didn't actually type the report and that we had it easy.

Its not knowing what this position is like that sets all the MT/MEs against us.

MME pay - once an MME

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Yes, I think you are right the MT/ME's didn't understand actually how little we were being paid and I think resented us for it. But heck, they could take the test and step up and experience that which we did as well. What a sorry promotion, it was no promotion only in the words not in the pay or prestige. Sheesh.

Converting back to MT/ME easy peasy - once an MME, no more

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Yes it was that simple I said to my CCM after much trying to make the situation better that I needed to revert back to MT/ME status, it took effect the very next paycheck, and the only thing I had to understand was that I can only change status like that 1 time a year, so if I wanted to try again for MME it would have to be a year later. She took care of everything I had to do nothing. Go for it. Sadly enough many people have.

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