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Cutting edge pay plan is nothing more than - having US MLS quit on their

Posted: Dec 13, 2014

own without having to do massive layoffs. The real underlying intention here is to have all work taken over by India. Quality and patient safety have nothing to do with it. Paying India workers mere pennies increases the bottom line. There is no public explaining to do or announce regarding massive layoffs. They will simply claim US workers quit on their own and they cannot find employees here in the US. I would love to know how much the person or persons were paid to think up this plan. I also recently noticed one of the gentleman who announced this plan appears to be from India with CMT after his name. I would challenge him along with other upper management, including TSMs, to spend 2 weeks in our shoes. Work, work, work not knowing exactly what you are making and then take that paycheck and see how far they can stretch it. Then come back and remind us what is so wonderful about this cutting edge, industry leading pay plan. As a side note, during an interview yesterday with another company, explaining the pay situation here was met with laughter and the comment, "that explains the influx of Nuance employee applications." Merry Christmas, Nuance. I hope your patients remain safe under your third world country wages.

Hoping to get fired... - I will not quit

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I want them to fire me...go ahead Nuance--let me go--please.

Depending on how long you been here, they would probably rather starve you out - then pay UE.

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Once their MUP surpasses the prior bonuses, etc - I predict another new and exciting pay

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plan will be developed. Hopefully, the genious who came up with the current one will then be let go due to exciting new dumb pay plan development.

MLSBeingTaken - ToTheCleaners

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under the guise of "quality and patient safety." They use that slogan to demean, intimidate and keep us down. We are all held suspect these days and in their eyes we should be grateful for the crumbs they throw our way.

Same here. Told interviewer this week about - pay situation and why I was leaving

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and they just could not wrap their head around expecting someone to work and not being able to depend on a consistent amt biweekly. When I added in that it was felt to be industry leading edge, the reply was "uh OK."

I do think an upside to this pay fiasco is that many MLS who have been thinking of leaving and dragging their feet, finally get the kick needed to just get out and do it.

Happy holidays to all my fellow Nuance MLS. My gift to myself was finally getting out of this place. Ten days left and counting.

To Nuance, I wish you and your brilliant pay grids well, but I think you really did it with this one. Do you even understand it yourself? If you did, you wouldn't have embarrassed yourself in rolling it out.

THAT'S THE REASON THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ADVERTISING LATELY - Nuance use to always advertise for help..sm

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Now all of a sudden, the ads have slacked off? Especially at a time where they have instituted this new pay plan and I'm sure they had to have anticipated there would be people quitting.

I think they are advertising or recruiting in India right now as we speak to compensate for the loss of MTs here in the US under this new pay plan. I have not seen a US ad from Nuance in a while.

Definitely! Have you seen their job postings? - MT

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They have lots of them now where they didn't before.

Curious how they would explain rate of pay to potential workers? sm - Boggles the mind

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Not even making a joke out of this. I don't know how they would explain base pay to potential employees.

Probably just that it is exciting and industry - leading.

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Imagine being on the receiving end of that answer.

Of course they're recruiting in India. That's - always been the plan. No more Americans.

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if you look on their site.....sm - sm

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and do a job search right on their direct site, it is 99% for India. They have 1 or 2 for US that is all.

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