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Please everyone, voice your concerns to your abbreviation! We are being (sm) - broke

Posted: Oct 29, 2013

abused and set up to fail. They increase our requirements, lower our pay, take away benefits, we meet the standards and they will increase them again. Pretty soon we all will be paying them to work here. This has really got to stop. Yes, I am looking for other employment so please don't just tell me to quit. I am just hoping everyone is speaking up to their abbreviation and letting them know how impossible this job is getting. I know it probably won't help but at least I refuse to go down without swinging.

Who/what is your abbreviation? - Not MM

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You just figured this out? - Not Happy

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Won't do any good to complain. Nobody cares but us.

Assuming - MT

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Assuming by abbreviation you mean our TSM or whatever the new one. They know our concerns but doubt there is anything they can do about it. They are just trying to keep their jobs too and doing whatever they are told to do. The only ones with the power to change anything are the big wigs and they are too blinded by dollar signs to see anything is wrong.

Have to agree - We used to have

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conference calls every now and then to address problems and anytime anything was brought up(like the VR being terrible) the TSM immediately went into automaton mode, spouting the company line i.e. "VR is learning." I don't know if they are brainwashed, or just sad desperate people like all the rest of us, but at least they probably make fairly decent money and don't have to deal with the BS the people doing the actual work do. Bottom line: All you will get out of your abbreviation is: "MModal is a wonderful place to work; it must be you who is messed up."

We are being phased out - sm

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Any job that decreases a persons pay is obvioulsy on the way out. Their main objective for the present is to make as much money as possible before the industry collapses...I have taken a 10K paycut over the years. ASR and electronic medical records are the wave of the future. We will be lucky to have 2 years left doing this. That is what a doctor told me. So make your plans to get out.

I could have posted this. I also believe we only have 2 years left - Back in school

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and hope my job will last until I get out. Stop fighting and start making other plans.

I only have 2 years, 6 months til retirement - Hoping the horse lasts

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at least that long before they beat it completely to death. Was a good ride while it lasted.

Ten years ago I thought we only had 5 years left - and yet here we are

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They will always need at least a skeleton USA crew. I have nowhere to go. No way to go to school. No skills to get a job elsewhere. I am sticking it out until they kick my bones away. I still make $12-15 hour, which is more than I can get at McDonald's.

Feel free to yell and scream and tell me I am a total idiot, as I realize on this board there is only one acceptable opinion to have or prepare for verbal abuse.

You're not alone - NM

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NM

10 years ago was a bit different - sm

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When a DOCTOR says find alternative employement, I tend to believe it..But stay here and when the job dries out, don't complain. I can retire in 2 years, makes zero difference to me. I'm riding it till it dies. Then hopping off to other things.

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