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Pay Cuts for salaried employees - adios


Posted: Mar 10, 2010

So, since we have gone to nearly all ASR, and have taken a pay cut of 40% basically, I think it's time that burden be shared by all employees equally.  I think it's time we hear that ALL employees have received a decrease in pay over what they made say 5 years ago.  I will even be fair, since we have the CHANCE to make it up in production supposedly, and say just cut salaried employees pay by 25% instead of 40%, just so we can all be in this together.

 

Before anybody bashes me and tells me to quit whining and do my job, let me just say I have always gotten high audits, have always worked my shift, which is second shift, worked weekends for my whole 10+ years employment up until I went on second shift, I do not abandon jobs, have always had high work ethics.

 

And yes, I am working very hard at getting out of this profession, not easy at my age to start over, but I am working on it daily.

 

But this is just not right. No part of it is right.  The stress is just off the charts with all the changes. 

 

This paycheck is just a painful reminder, it is time to move on. 

 

I hope anybody starting out in this profession now is not the main breadwinner or it will be a very tough road ahead. 

 

God Bless Us All.

Okay, now I feel bad - adios

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I really would not wish on my worst enemy what has happened to us, so I certainly do not wish it on the other employees of MQ. I just feel so powerless about what has happened to us and I don't understand why it has happened only to us and nobody else cares.

Not the other employees' fault though. Just hope they are saving some of the money they are making here, because sooner or later they will be either unemployed or will find their salaries will be cut as well.

Do wish they cared more about us, but I guess in this economic climate it is survival of the fittest.

I just need to move on quick, before this all does me in.

I believe the salaried people are getting hosed too - Old part-timer

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I believe our CCMs are on salary and MQ sticks it to them by adding onto their job description until they can't take it anymore. They have to deal with the hospitals, with individual employees (and each of them now have more MTs under them), take care of all the scheduling and time cards...I don't envy them their job.

The big shots are the ones making money and they couldn't care less about any of the peons under them.

I agree with you. If the suits can dish it out, they should - be able to take it, too.

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I don't know how I'm going to pay my income tax this year. I owe about $300, but I don't HAVE $300. I'm working at capacity, pay has been cut, I have no savings, and there are only 7 days/week to work. I need more like 10. If I hear of ONE MORE big fat bonus or pay raise for a CEO at ANY company (not just this one), I will blow my top, for sure.

Wanna really blow up? my X told me those banker's bonuses - GInorman

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were like $10,000,000.00 each to 400-500 people. Somehow I had it in mind they were talking about a few dozen people. Wish TAA would let us train as rapacious bankers.

paycut - tts

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Well at least you stated what is true, thank you. I live week to week wondering what my check will be like only to see Yes
40% cut. Today I cried. I am an MME evening shift, work my scheduled hours, volunteer when needed, never abandon my jobs, and still what the heck, once again I need to ask my kids to help buy me groceries. Its just not fair and yet, at my age where do I go? Walmart, but the again would I get full time hours :(

paycut - adios

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I feel your pain, I would have cried but I don't think I have any tears left. For the first time in 31 years of marriage my husband and I have to sit down and figure out what to pay.

I told him today its just not fair. I have done nothing wrong, except not jumped ship sooner.

I keep being told my ASR production should be higher. Well, after 15 years of doing this for a living, not just a little extra cash on the side, I have tried everything and have been unsuccessful in increasing my ASR productivity.

I can only guess the ones who do, and claim they are just better at it than us, must have some pretty sweet accounts.

Well, one think I am doing is writing down the internal job # and reported every job that ASR is not correcting, after a year now on the same doctors.

Still its too little too late even when they actually do correct the problem, but hopefully for those who stick it out, it may help things get a little better.

You cried, I just got very depressed and withdrawn. Not healthy. Not right.

Paycut - sick and tired

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25 years of experience and I can't run the big numbers on ASR. My accounts are mostly jibberish. Can do about the same production as straight typing, just pays 40% less. Volunteered for it first thing so have been doing it for several years and never has gotten any better. Computer was supposed to pick up on corrections, but never happened. I am still making the same corrections report after report.
paycut-ASR - adios
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I was there in the beginning of ASR too, supposedly because I was good. You are so right, same thing, just paid 40% less.

Just sent an e-mail to my CCM tonight about yet another doc who I correct over and over, a true-to-form doc, and ASR never picks up corrections. She has been good about getting answers for me, but too late for me to decide to stay.

If I don't find something soon, this is going to kill my health. Maybe already has. It has definitely killed my spirit.


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