MQ has to SEVERELY cut employee-related costs and - cut/control salaries

There are severe legal ramifications if you put in writing that you agree to this cost cutting/salary control maneuvering by MQ.  Essentially they are getting us to let them off the hook with these "ESSAYS." 

Please note on the email it states:  "All entries become the property of MQ and may be used in future communications." 

Also, not to be outdone by their own salary slashing FTR program, they have also taken more time/money away from us as these are to be done on OUR OWN TIME per the email.  It is bad enough they cut our pay, do not offer real bonuses, and give us pay raises that might buy a cup of rice at the food pantry if we save our pennies real good, but they have to add insult to injury. 

Please, please, I cannot emphasize to you DO NOT SIGN YOUR NAME TO A SELF-AUTHORED AGREEMENT to their pay cut.  Don't do it. 

Please read this carefully.  MQ/CBay is NOT DONE WITH THE DIRTY DEEDS YET.  They have a bunch of employees to get rid of yet and you do not know how they are going to use these documents against you.  An 'ESSAY CONTEST"?  Come on, we are all adults here, we are all scraping by with the slams that our paychecks have taken.  But yet they are going to come out with an ESSAY CONTEST so we MIGHT get a CHANCE of a few bucks AFTER TAXES ARE TAKEN OUT of the "WINNINGS."  Oh please.   

Why don't they come up with an HONEST BONUS PROGRAM instead of a bogus "CONTEST" that has us all basically writing our own walking papers.  They will say to you, when you fight them for wrongful discharge, "but you even wrote down yourself that this is a GREAT program you AGREED to it!" 

DON'T DO IT PEOPLE.  DON'T.   THIS IS AN INSULT TO OUR INTEGRITY AS HARD WORKING PROFESSIONALS AND AN UNDERHANDED TRICK.   

I never in my life worked ANYWHERE where they used tactics like these.  It is like throwing a handful of crumbs laced with rat poison at a flock of birds. 

Don't do it.  That is not a lot of money, especially after taxes.  It is not worth putting yourself in a BAD POSITION with that self-authored agreement with YOUR NAME ATTACHED TO IT. 

MQ is not done with us yet.  CBay is filling seats quickly.  MQ is hiring newbies like crazy, only because they already have salary controls in place that they are being hired into and they can manipulate the newbies easier than the long time employees who they are giving the shaft to. 

DO NOT ENTER THIS "CONTEST."  IT IS A RUSE.  THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ON THE UP AND UP WITH US EVER, AND THIS SO-CALLED CONTEST IS A DISGRACE AND A SHAM. 

Don't let them use you. 

Just my two cents worth, and if my new job opens up before the "contest" "end date" I am going to fire off a letter to the entire corporate board and tell their A***S off! 

A flippin "contest."  No real bonuses for all.  A joke and a sham. 

Shame on them.