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MQ stopping the incentive program...... - Kiki

Posted: Jun 08, 2010

Take take take. I know this is the norm for this company. First they came up with that one incentive back in 2007, which was pretty good, and then changed it to something not so good. Now they just decide to take it away altogether. Is it really going to come to us PAYING THEM for the privilege of working for them? They said there will be a new incentive program, but where is it? I have a feeling there isn't one.

My question is to those who have either left MQ for another company or also work a second job with another company: Are there companies out there that still pay a production incentive? Or is the trend your incentive is to be glad to still have a job?

Didnt they get rid of it back in April? - and replaced it with a raise

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Or was that something else. I don't know anymore what is going on here. My head is spinning.

Oh yeah, how can I forget that "raise." It amounted - Kiki

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to fractions of a penny per hour LITERALLY for most of us. I told my CCM that while I normally appreciate a raise, and I don't expect one for sure, it was a big fat INSULT when I figured it out to be a few cents a day. More insulting than NO raise at all really. So in actuality, this big plan of theirs (no incentive but raises) was actually just another pay cut. When my CCM helped me figure out the raise, she was just as surprised as I was that it was in fact just a few cents a day raise. Some people got more bc it was based on production for a short period of time, a time I happened to be on PTO during that time, which affected my "raise." But a lot of us were saying the raise didn't amount to more than a few bux a day. For me it was cents. MQ just wanted to be able to say, "Hey we gave everyone a raise!" It was a pay cut clear and simple.

I'm hoping someone can answer the part of my question about whether there are still other companies out there that have production bonuses...........????

didn't you hear about the new incentive program? - planetspinz

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If you ask for a pay raise, you get a pay cut.
If you have more than 5% QA in a week you will lose 3 cents a line on your next QA reports - but there is no way to tell if you are being ripped off again.
If you have more than 2 audits under 98% you will be fired (even though your CCM tells you that is not true- so maybe you get a pay cut first then get fired without notice).
If you don't type your required lines per hour, you will be fired.
When they finally get that freeze us out program working, you will not be able to work past your schedule because the program will shut down and no more jobs will be uploaded to your account.
If you don't type your required lines per week you will be fired.

How's that for incentives?

if we are lucky we don't lose any money - what a deal!

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Gosh, makes me feel all warm and fuzzy! NOT!

Left MQ/great new MTjob but no incentives just - Extra work=Extra pay NM

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NM

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