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under or over reporting hours - sm

Posted: Mar 06, 2014

What difference does it make if we are over reporting our hours. We don't get PTO any longer so what does it matter? We r supposed to clock in and out when we get up to use the restroom or just stretch our legs. Other people that work outside of MT don't have to clock in and out each time they get up to go to the bathroom then why should we? That way we have to work an hour or 2 longer than we are scheduled just to get in potty breaks or leg stretching time!!!!

potty breaks - sm

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Exactly, that is a "consequence" of working at home. Along with not getting paid for filling out demo screens, putting in CCs, sending and reading emails, and whatever else we don't get paid for. The MTSO's have turned working from home into a curse. If I would have known years ago this is what we would end up with I would have stayed working in the hospital where once my shift was over I could leave and not think about that place again until the next day.

When all of this started punching in and out to go to the bathroom a few of us laughed that we were going to need to self-catheterize ourselves and have a bucket under our desk. Never dreaming that that would become the normal.

This pay by keystroke is another joke.

ABSOLUTELY REFUSE to do that - never have, never will - Annie

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Unless it's NJA - which is once again occurring much too often - and you have to punch in and out with each job that trickles in until you're dizzy.

It's a labor issue - anon

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They want you to punch in and out so that they don't look like the scum that they are when it comes down to the labor laws and minimum wage. As an example only: If you do approximately 1500 lines per 8-hour shift at 0.06 per line, it's $90 or $11.25 an hour.
If you don't actually do 2 hours of work for those hours clocked (again, example only) - now your down to 1000 lines per shift, $60/8-hour shift or $7.50 an hour. Now you are below minimum wage... and they could get in trouble for that.
They could give two hoots about our hourly wage, they are just saving face. It would be nice to get paid for all the doctor look-ups, or address look-ups, etc. That's at least an hour a day of not getting paid!

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