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It may be people like Turning Worm who caused MQ to react and lay off for fear Sm - I Betcha

Posted: Apr 04, 2013

of a possible class action lawsuit. If you started taking things to the Labor Board you can bet MQ will be forced to let go of people. I'm not saying MM is not to blame because I DO believe they are sending 80% of the work to India for cheap labor and to avoid excessive taxes. They have a right to do that. MM provided work to American workers to provide some with jobs, not to make a profit. It's expensive to employ American MTs thanks to the US Govt, but that's for another day.

Plus, these big corporate MT companies pay an obscene amount of overhead in salaries to unnecessary people and higher ups who know NOTHING about MT. It's sad, really. We are the worker bees and we get screwed.

Turning Worm's posts "caused" MM to lay off people? How silly. - anon

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I highly doubt anonymous posts (on an M*Modal board that are filled with similar posts every week) would cause the company to react and lay off people. We've had low work for months now. I think MM would have had to do something like this eventually.

Don't think . . . - anon

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that "worm" has that much power to cause this to happen. Really?

Nah - see inside

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We had gotten hints that something was going to happen. Some TSMs were telling their people changes were coming in March. I think the wheels got set in motion in March and now the layoffs are beginning. It had to happen. Too many people with no work and a lot of partial unemployment.

And not just at M*Modal. This is happening - INDUSTRY-WIDE. Time to get out.

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It's thinking like yours that keeps most of us under - the MTSO"s heel - getting crushed. nm

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