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Lets get pounding on this work! - SM

Posted: Dec 19, 2012

I just thought that if all MTs would work like crazy from now through Saturday, we could empty the system out and ensure that other MTs who were not approved for PTO could still spend time with their family. Plus, then we would have extra money on our check cause you know the entire week after Christmas into the New Year there will be no work!

Pound it out people. Our Christmas gift to eachother.

Why - would

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I do that. I would rather see everybody take the next few days off so they have nobody to do the work for the peanuts they pay and let them have the Indians and the VR handle it. Why would I help the company out when they treat me like garbage? It would help the MTs out more if nobody would work until things change around here. I'm tired of working for the low pay and putting up with the VR and the lousy dictators that they won't straighten up. It could be done if everybody would do it, but the company cheerleaders come on and sway everybody to keep working under these conditions.

I am not a company cheerleader! - sm

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I am scheduled to work 8 hour days on both Monday and Tuesday and was denied PTO! I dont want to work the entire holiday. There are many people who were not approved for PTO and will be forced to work.

If you are tired of working, then quit. I am sorry for your situation, but screwing the rest of us at the holidays is horrible.

I'm not - screwing you

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you're screwing yourself. Wake up. Why don't you just take Christmas off? I'm not tired of working. I'm tired of putting up with the way we are treated but people like you are ruining it by letting the companies bully you. You'll come on here and complain but won't do anything to change it, so you get what you deserve.

I get that your tired of it. - sm

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I am not complaining. I was not approved for PTO, but several were not approved. If that is what I deserve, fine.

You are a miserable person. I hope the rest of the MTs decided to pound the work out before the holiday.

I am not letting the company bully me. I am trying to provide a paycheck to my family until I can get out of this field.

Enjoy your holiday.

If that is what you deserve?? Do you also deserve low, low - wages, bad sound, bad dictators, etc, etc? nm

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What is your problem? - sm

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Seriously. This post was directed to everyone else at the company, not you.

Please, stop attacking me now!

I AM part of this company. My problem is a female - work force who thinks the MTSO SM

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has their best interest at heart, a female workforce that often doesnt know how or what they are paid for, a female workforce that will not speak up/stand up for what they deserve. My problem is MTs who think not getting paid time off is "what they deserve." I bet MM just loves you.

Then leave this female workforce behind. - bully

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SPeaking up will change nothing. We have INDIA, that will gladly take what we leave behind. We are not a threat. Some of us are trying to put food on the table. Some of us are trying to finish school. Why not go bug people on the politics board. They are more your type.

if you dont like whats being said here then why - are you here? everyone

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here is fed up with the pay. it is going to get no better thanks to who? you? government? India? we have been screwed and they are happy!

remember its quantity not quality - of patient care

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just saying :)

and that's - what

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they should get. Give them what they pay for.

and - that

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is what the company would love you to believe, that India will take it. India or VR can not replace us, but people believe what the company tells them. All of us are trying to put food on the table and it is less and less food and will continue to be that way until people do something about it. Maybe you're trying to finish school. The rest of us are trying to earn a living at something we spent years and years learning and is being taken away from us.

yeah, it is being taken away from me also, which is - why I TOOK ACTION going to school

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You are not going to be able to save this field, just like the phone operators could not save theirs. Its gone. You need to move on.

Statements - like

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yours are why we are in the boat we are in. I'm not a phone operator. I'm a transcriptionist who knows India and VR can't do my job better. Phone operators and transcriptionists are two different things. By the way, there are still phone operators. They just don't have to push that little cord in a certain spot. Technology actually made their job better, not ours. Wish people would stop using the telephone operator line.

When was the last time you had to speak to an operator - grits

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to have a call put through? That portion of telcom did not survive You're referencing customer service reps in call centers - a different career altogether. I worked as one for years.

The point stands - technology makes certain careers obsolete, and the POB are trying like anything to make sure MT is one of them.

I think it's the perfect analogy - sm

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both were once excellent career paths for women, and now because of technology they're not. Yes there are still phone operators and there are still MTs, but neither is what it once was.

MM does - love

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them and all the others that are putting up with it. I'm fighting for my profession, not taking what this company and others that are like it have done to it. People think they will just go to India. that is not true. There are many hospitals who have been there and back because of the quality. VR certainly cannot handle it either. If people wouuld just wake up and start fighting things would change. Even the few who are willing to fight should. Just stop working immediately for a few days. It will cripple them. Start taking action now!!!!

You - dislike

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doing something to help you out!!! I guess the people at Nuance are smarter. They're doing something about it.

I would like to see how many days you "took action" - so far in the past 3 months or so

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How many days did you "stop working" and how often?

I know if I dont work, I will be put on the compliance list and I will lose my job. You watch, in January, they are going to fire a bunch more people for this stuff, not meeting schedule, not meeting lines, not meeting hours, not meeting quality...

Maybe you can be without a job, but I cant.

Lots - of

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days. I can't afford to keep working for nothing. That's what's happening with VR, and there is so little work since it is going to India. You go ahead and hold the company up, I'm not.

Ok, so your only missing days because they are not - giving you enough work.

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Your logic is a little off, you say you are taking days off, but you cant keep working for nothing. Are you one of those people who think they should be allowed to work from 11 am to 12 pm, have an hour lunch break, and still make 100,000 a year? Sounds like it to me.

By the way, Im not holding this company up, I am holding my family up.

that wasn't - me

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just somebody else that feels the same way.

Had to reply to this posting... - sm

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Get over it! If this is so miserable for you, get out. YOU don't choose to do anything about it either, except to bully those in here that are trying to be positive about this job because to some of us, this is all we can do for now at least.

No, I - am

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choosing to do something about it and am not bullying anybody. Maybe you should try it. Has anything else worked for you? You won't know until you try will you? I am over it!

You don't have to work the entire holiday.. - anon

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There won't be any work, at least for sure for a 15 minute time frame when you can send a remedy ticket and take the rest of the day off. That is what I'll be doing. My PTO didn't get approved but that won't stop me from having the day off.

I usually get shifted to another region - when my region is out

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So, I will probably have a full day of work. :(

I actually don't mind working the holiday if .... - anon-op

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there is work. I can usually celebrate around work if I have to. I just hate to be forced to work if there is no work which is generally the case. I need to make money. I can't afford to sit here all day when there is no work, so PTO is the only way I can make any money on a holiday that they expect me to work.

Why Would I - prissy

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I totally agree with you. Why do anything for this company when they treat us like crap? I say screw them!

I have informed by supervisor that.... - bshel

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if they need me on Christmas, call me. I can work around on Christmas if I need to. I will do what I can to keep my job. Those who would judge me here, don't bother. I don't care. I need to do what I feel is the right thing instead of just being angry all the time and not making money.

Agree with you! I have no work though. - 400 lines in 2 weeks.

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I do not care anymore. Done! Merry Christmas.

I'm in! - lets go!

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we are covered up here in my region!

I've - already

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gone. Hope more join.

Looks like y'all pounded it out so well - grits

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that I'm sitting here NJA.

*sad trombone*

well there were only 2 of us - and we are good but not that good nm

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nm

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