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My daily line counts have dropped quite a bit after all this - sm


Posted: Apr 29, 2015

mandatory OT.  I'm too tired and burnt out, and my hands hurt too bad.  It's having the opposite effect of what they're intending...  I guess if whoever is making the mandatory OT decision knew anything about business, though, they'd know that too much OT for too long is counter-productive.

Fingers hurt too much. To many corrections! - dnr

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If MM ASR wasn't so bad and IT was competent and produced the quality they claimed and promised, my hands would not hurt and my lph might actually give me a livable wage.

Oops, typo. Too many corrections. Eyes And brains too tired from MOT too. - nm

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Nm

I'm not doing it - Homer

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I haven't done any of the OT or the MOT. It doesn't pay. It's just not worth it. Besides having arthritis in my fingers and a sore behind, it's hard enough getting in the regularly scheduled shift with a sucky schedule, I'm jumping from one account to the next and because of that my line count has dropped, the number of jobs I have to send to QA because of blanks is ridiculous, AND I have it from a reliable source that the TLs get bonuses for meeting TAT. No wonder they all but threaten the MTs that "action will be taken" if you don't comply and work OT or so-called MOT.. For the last 2 weeks, I worked my schedule, not taking any time off so 80-plus hours, plus the conference time from that webinar a few weeks back, and guess what? My paycheck on Friday will be the lowest pay I have received in 5 years.. No one has said a single word to me about not doing the OT or the MOT that has been in effect since the beginning of the year...counting the days until the end of December at the earliest when I plan to quit, OR if they want to fire me in the meantime, so be it.


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