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No more helper pools starting September. - want work

Posted: Aug 21, 2013

I get so many accounts that I don't know whether they are helper accounts or not. Just when I give a sigh of relief because I have had steady work since the layoffs, looks like they are going to pull the rug out again. My pay is pitiful, but I need this job until January when I finish school and hopefully get a job.

Seriously? They are bringing back the swap board? - and the reason work is low

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is because we are so much faster, and no, the company goal is to not get rid of all of the domestic workers?? Riiiiiiiight!

Can you clarify? - HateMsobad

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Can you tell me where you learned this? I "unsubscribed" to all MModal propaganda emails, so I never see the "good stuff" any more. Was this a corporate email or something you heard from your TSM? Thanks in advance. This place is a filthy toilet in need of a good flush of management! TIA

TSM e-mail. - Not allowed to work outside our

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shift, have to get permission from TSM and put in swap board request. And she doesnt foresee any more lay offs in the near future, and no the company goal is not to get rid of us. Oh, and they haven't sent any more work overseas for the last 8 months. That was the best (??) laugh of the whole thing.

I think they read their responses from a script - anon - nm

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NM

Also not allowed - Frustrated MT

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to clock out after 6 min NJA and stay logged in to see if work picks up and finish shift. Have to clock out and take PTO or no pay. Can use swap board to pick up work IF that shift does not put you in OT. What a load of crock! Already have my resume out for other jobs away from MT!

When is all this supposed to be announced? - anon

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September is only 10 days from now and no one else has even heard of this change.

it won't be - it does not apply to you

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this is just a TSM making up her own rules.

Ohhhh, OK ... gotcha. Wow, glad she's not mine. NM - anon

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NM

To Frustrated MT, Your TSM is lying to you. The new - SM

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policy for NJA is on the MM intranet. You HAVE to log out after 6 minutes and you then have 3 choices: take PTO, make up time later, or take the rest of the day off without pay. DO NOT LET YOUR TSM GET AWAY WITH THIS!!! She/he's lying to you. Good luck!

TSM is saying, yes, we can make up time - but it has to be off the swap board.

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and it can't be in a shift that would put us into OT. Also hated the veiled threat, "you'd better be on your game."

Mmoral requests! - sm

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Is your TSM JL by any chance? The "tone" sounds familiar. The joke is on them as that swap board never, ever worked so this will blow up in her face! Shine them on and do what you want. what are they going to do, fire you? Bwahaha!!! Now that they over-fired/exterminated/let go/released, whatever word they are using this time they are understaffed and desperate. They created this boat full of holes, now let them bail it out or sink.

all of this drama again, why couldn't I have been - laid off, getting taa and be free

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Now there are no more lay offs, taa petition will expire, and I'm stuck dealing with all these rules and micromanaging, and nonsense. Just my luck.

Thats only if you believe her when she says - there are no more layoffs.

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She also wanted us to believe we are so much faster is why the work had been slow. Yeah, right.

when does the TAA petition expire? - can we get a new one?

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holy cow!

march 2014 - need 3 to get new one

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They have to lay off more after that, and then get 3 people to petition, get it approved and then everyone else gets the benefits when they are laid off.

Reduction in force - is the corporate gibberish

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of the day. Trust me, I am going to shine them on. The Indians can have this swamp No, her initials aren't JL. I wonder if she realizes her job could be taken over by her BFF ILP.

It is not just because of layoffs more work is available. - Frustrated MT

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Apparently some "valuable" full time employees quit when they did not have enough work and that added to the high work levels now. Haha! They were just lucky enough to see the future and get another job while they could. I hope I join them with a new job of my own soon and I can wave bye bye to MMoral! I am not going to be tied to this computer 24/7 trying to get my lines/hours.

Out of Work policy - feenixrising

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I spent the day tracking down the right person to speak to regarding this new policy. Turns out, according to Federal Dept. of Labor Wages and Hours person (at least the one in Nashville, Tenn) that the OOW is legal even if not fair. Well I asked her to send me a copy of the ruling which she did and it is most ambiguous. So the fight is still on! Hope you have signed the petition.

Reccomendation - peanut

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I think your time would be better spent trying to find a new job, don't you?

stop fighting, start looking for another job - why would you stay?

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