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Mandatory hour of OT a day...I think not! - Debs

Posted: Dec 17, 2014

That is not legal!

On top of that, helping other trouble accounts - sm

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Just got an email that not only is there at least 1 hour of mandatory OT for everybody in our POD today through Friday, we will have work from another POD who needs help mixed in with ours. How in the heck does that make sense? You don't slow down your workers who need to get their familiar/semifamiliar accounts out of trouble with work from accounts that they don't know at all. If OT is needed in both PODs, keep them separate; I guarantee it will get done a lot faster.

Why can't we get people who know what they are doing to manage this company?

They're trying to prove that the POD works. - clyde

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The POD system is a huge failure! And they're scared out of their minds. I don't know why they thought it would work.

They give us 40 accounts (maybe 5 of which we're familiar with) and expect us to produce the same amount, while bombarding us with emails about how behind we are. I don't have time to read emails. I don't feel motivated to work even my scheduled hours! Then throw in unfamiliar accounts and unfamiliar dictators. That all takes time. They thought we'd be "used to" it by now, but we're not, as we can see from the backlog. Usually this time of year we're running out of work on a regular basis, and here we are slammed.

Hello, MModal, your POD is a failure. You can offer all the OT you want. That's just money in my pocket as I try to make the same I was making in my BOB.

You think that throwing in accounts outside of the POD really bother us? It's all the same now! Every day is an unknown.

So now they face the difficult decision:
1. Do we go back to BOBs but have managers and schedulers manage many BOBs?
2. Do we continue on with the POD, and hope to that we lowly MTs get the hang of managing 40+ accounts on a daily basis while maintaining a 99.6% accuracy and limit QA submissions?

Time will tell, but I'm guessing OT will just be the new normal with a POD and I can't imagine MModal ever admitting that they made a mistake, so they can pay me OT to get the same amount of work done until they pull their heads out and get yet another CO who changes it again because he wonders why the company that went bankrupt is paying so much money in unnecessary OT.

Sign me...laughing all the way to the bank, only working OT when it's convenient for me, my family comes first because obviously I don't come first for this company I've given 25 years to.

actually, it is - true stuff

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before the pods, while working for a supervisor i really liked, we had mandatory one hour OT quite often. i grumbled, and then i looked it up. it is indeed legal. so i just shut up and did it. i told you, i gave up the fight some time ago. not the complaining though.
;) that steam has to come out somehow.

Im not working a mandatory 1 hour OT EVER - sm

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Never have, never WILL, don't care what they threaten with. As for the pods and the unfamiliar accounts..Am I the only one noticing the mistakes being made. I am 100% sure I am making them as well, cause I have no clue how to decipher the CPs that are so vaguely written..Go into past reports, no consistency in formatting at all, that is my pet peeve, drives me insane..Not a far drive anymore, BTW

Mandatory OT - Nana

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I agree. How can they say mandatory hour a addy for the rest of this week? It's not our flippin fault these stupid doctors are dictating reports from months and even a year ago. I don't have time for overtime! Already on me to change my schedule and I don't want to do that either. We will see what happens.

Ummm.. what if you are scheduled off? - mtwillworkforfood

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If we are scheduled off on one or more of those days (not PTO)... are we still expected to do an hour of OT?

read the email - true stuff

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is says in the email that it does not pertain to people who are scheduled off.

You must be in a different POD - mtwillworkforfood

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My email doesn't say anything about people who are off on those days with mandatory OT.

Nana - Sk

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You and I must be on the same team...

OH MY BOB, me too - Rusty

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I thought it was just me. I am on a fairly new acct and get dinged for something, will write it down so I don't do it again, and then change it to the way they told me to, and then get dinged from another QA about the way the first one told me to. I too see many differences in old reports, and asked them about it, but never got a response. This place just gets weirder all the time.

I shouldn't even be working...but need the money! - Debs

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I fractured my ankle 2 weeks ago, and it is tough enough to begin with to put in my 8 hours. I have to elevate my leg on a stool! I certainly am not doing it.

OT - CT

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The way I read the e-mail, it sounds like at least 1 hour this week (between Wednesday and Friday), not 1 hour a day. Anyone else read it this way?

OT - Nana

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Ours is mandatory 1 hour each day for the rest of this week.

OT - CT

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I checked, and ours, at least, is just 1 hour for the week.

Or what? - Write me up

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We have been on overtime pretty much since the POD started of which I have participated every time they asked. Now today we get the mandatory emails. I am exhausted. Yes I have made a lot of money but finally I had to stop checking my email and walk away from the computer after my shift. I need to take care of my sanity and my family. I only thought this was a temporary thing but it is obvious now the POD stands for Permanent Overtime Demanded.

I really would like to see them write me up for not working OT this week considering how much I put in the last weeks. If I end up in the hospital because of exhaustion will I have to work there too?

OR WHAT? - MTFedUp

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YES, YES YOU WILL! LOL! #MANDATORY

I do it when they ask for volunteers, but not when they say MANDATORY. - No thank you. NM

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Especially after finding out some people won $100 gift cards - for working OT ....NOT ME

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they have lost their minds. I won't be doing it unless we have a comparable incentive.

Mandatory overtime - I post from time to time

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Ho! Ho! Ho! I don't think so!

OT - Mountainwoman

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I had 13 hours OT on my last check, which only brought me back to what I lost when we went to the POD thing ($200). I already have 10 hours from last week, and 6 hours, so far, this week. I have already committed to 4 extra hours this week, but I intentionally did not offer OT for Friday, since my Saturday shift starts in the middle of the night. They can say what they want, but it is impossible for me to get up that early and work with only 4 hours sleep. You would think they could cut some slack to those who have already volunteered extra hours :(

After so many hours, all of my OT goes to taxes. It has gotten to that point where it's just not worth it.

OT - Nana

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I work 25 hours a week. My OT amounts to minimum wage for the hour. Thanks, but no thanks.

One of the "perks" of being on PM... - chillywinter

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forbidden from doing any overtime if you are on Performance Management!!! Surprised there is anyone left who is eligible...

Oh they even waived that requirement in our POD - all hands on deck

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Now there is even talk of extending the mandatory through Sunday. Bah humbug to them too. Makes you wonder though what happened behind the scenes. Somebody posted a picture once of an office full of monkeys and that is exactly what I imagine corporate to look like now. Nobody knows what is going on but they sure like to blame the MTs. Must be our fault. How about you tell the client that the reports they dictate months late will be late. Silly to expect the same turnaround as everything else.

even our PCs are typing! - ROFL!! serves them right

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PC - TJ

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haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaa
I agree. Too bad, too sad.

at least one PC resigned over this. Cant say I blame them - dont let the door hit you

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