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not management - old timer

Posted: Mar 08, 2010

I am not management! You just don't get it. I hate to say it, but many of you are too miserable here to see the good... for whatever reasons.

I am an MT. I'm tempted to put my real name and MQ e-mail, but what for. I've said what I did because I am doing okay, because I have been through frightening changes before with MQ and it has always worked out. It seems foolish to tell you my real name though, as you mostly are a bunch of whining losers here, who are more content with bitching than dealing with the situation. Believe what you want. If you are hell-bent on hating your job and locking yourself into what sound like paranoid delusions, so be it. You really should quit and do something else, as I can't see a positive outcome for you.

Also, although I am indeed a mere MT, it doesn't really matter who I am, as I have spoken the truth and given good advice. Take it or leave it. But some of you ought to visit a shrink, frankly to talk about why you hate your jobs so much.

I have to remind myself that this site is for the disgruntled who are not doing well already. I've spent enough time here, though -- during my production time (I really am just trying to help my colleagues.) I'm losing money by trying to help you, so good luck, everyone. I've done my part to help and encourage -- and management is not in the habit of encouraging.

Life is tough and then you die. Or... maybe it is up to us to make the best of things. I just can't continue to visit this site, though, as the negative energy and misinformation is just so destructive and such a negative influence. I am at the point where I can't stand any more whining.

Many unemployed people would love your job right now, if only they were qualified for it. Add that thought to your recipe for self-pity and failure.

But good luck. I wish all MQ MTs the very best; unfortunately, that means some of you need to leave.

Oh, you do not even know any of us or our situation. - So you think you can assume.

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Real nice. I have been with MQ for over 20 years. I used to LOVE my job -- Until the recent changes. I lost over 20,000 dollars since last year in my salary. I don't think that is an illusion or a delusion and I am doing the same work, if not more.

You are obviously having a better time of it at MQ. Good for you. But just because others on here are having a more difficult time than you, does not mean that they are having a difficult time because they are lazy or just angry. We all are having a different experience with MQ right now. I am on my way out. I have had enough. I have had enough of them changing my shift around to suit the work load. I have had enough pay cuts. I have had enough of sending emails and making phone calls just to sit and wait for over a week to have them answered. I have had enough of unqualified QCs making changes, corrections in the report that are nonsensical to say the least.

I WAS DOING WELL ENOUGH IN THE PAST THANK YOU until the closing of my department, the demotion and the cut in pay. But you KNOW EVERYTHING, so you already knew that, right? But I should still find SOMETHING to be happy about at MQ?

Oh please, don't tell me just be happy to have a job. That is what is wrong with our country right now. We have been programmed to just settle for the scraps. Excuse me Stepford wife, but I prefer to not just settle and accept what I am told to accept.

I don't know of one person who could just come off the street and sit down and do our jobs. Maybe you think our jobs are that useless and easy. I don't. So, not too many people would be happy to have this job as they couldn't just sit down and do it anyway.

You are being the miserable one here. You are not seeing that MANY of us are not in that land over the rainbow where you are, still getting plenty of work, no paycuts, no demotions. Well then just Enjoy.

It will all catch up to you, too.

Wish I could still be happy at MQ. I was until a few years ago.

So stay there in la la land. I am happy that someone is happy in MQ. I really am.

But is isn't me.

She cracks me up - Anon

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She apparently cannot express herself without swearing, and has some kind of God complex. We don't follow her "good advice" Puh-leeze!

Good riddence to bad rubbish! We'll all miss your "wisdom." - Not!

not management - oldone

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If you are not management, then you should be. Talk about a lot of brainwashed mind speak! Sorry but you do sound very management to me. BTW, I never whine and I work very hard. You apparently have not been tried in this new economy.

old timer - oldone

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Sorry, Old Timer, but you still sound like management. I have never accused anyone of that before. You are very preachy and wordy. I have worked forever and apparently so have you. I respect that in you. I like being an MT, always have. Right now, not so much though. I haven't given up on it but it is not as much "fun" as it once was. I still care about my work and still strive to be the best I can be.

I am sorry if you have had a hard time with your health. You are not alone in that. Many, many of us have had very bad illnesses and prefer not to elaborate on them or bring them up at all, for that matter, when making a point. Again, sorry you have been ill and wish you well with that. I say again, you are not the only one, though, who has been ill. That is not a point here. Mistreatment by large companies is very much the point.

I am sorry you were ill too! You are a fighter! - People on this board also were sick

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But unfortunately MQ treated them bad and they ended up getting fired or loss their jobs with MQ, just for having cancer or getting sick. I glad you still have your job at MQ with benefits.

oh geez - polyanna

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You said: Many unemployed people would love your job right now, if only they were qualified for it...

Whatever! You don't even have to be qualified anymore... just send blanks through.

Come on! They hire Indians who don't even speak English!

The only good advice you gave is that you were being unproductive by typing on this chat board instead of working.

You know why we are all miserable...

I do not believe that a company has to mistreat all employees just to weed out the bad employees. At any previous job I had, the lazy people got fired. The ones who did not show up to work, got fired. The ones with poor quality got fired. The company did not make up rediculous rules as a means to see who gets it. DUH! They already know who gets it. This is only a way to LOWER OUR PAY.. which coincidentally makes a lot of people UNHAPPY WITH THEIR JOB.

It is really that simple.

kool-aid - salesman

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Gaslighting people is not polite.

gaslighter - oldone

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Hate to say this, but I still don't know what is meant by that, lol. Sorry if I am not polite when I gaslight but if I knew what it was, maybe I wouldn't do it anymore.

kool-aid - salesman

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Gaslighting is a form of intimidation or psychological abuse in which false information is presented to the victim, making them doubt their own memory and perception.The term derives from the 1938 stage play Gas Light (originally known as Angel Street in the United States), and the 1940 and 1944 film adaptions. The plot concerns a husband who attempts to drive his wife to insanity by manipulating small elements of their environment, and insisting that she is mistaken or misremembering when she points out these changes. The title stems from the husband's subtle dimming of the house's gas lights, which she accurately notices and which the husband insists she's imagining.

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