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Does anyone else have the ONE lousy dictator - who is so bad you just


Posted: Jun 20, 2015

resign yourself to getting minimum wage or close for that pay period, especially when said dictator dictates a long string of reports and you seem to get them ALL?    Ugh.  You don't know how bad I just want to QUIT right this second. 

Bad dictators - Another MT

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I don't have one, but several dictators, and I am lucky to have 1 or 2 good dictators per an 8-hour shift. They say to keep your QA score down try not to send in reports for correction. I have many reports that go to QA every night, and I don't have 1 night that I can go without sending some of my reports to QA. The dictators are generally horrible. I have a lot of experience, and this is the first job that I have had where I want to pull my hair out every night. This really is very depressing, and I don't see a solution to this problem.

Solution to the problem....quit or get paid hourly. - val

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Don't drive yourself into depression over their crap.


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