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No one has mentioned the FIESA elephant in the room. - What will be the punitive action?

Posted: Dec 03, 2014

They have put out the word that they are hiring more auditors. That is probably to ensure more mistakes are caught, thereby lowering our pay even more and turning us against one another.

I don't understand FIESA's role in this. Anyone??

fiesa - anon

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I want to know what happens to error reversals on the last day of the pay period. That's going to be a hassle for everybody. This ENSURES you will check Fiesa, over and over, and hope and pray, or you make 7 cpl. They did figure out how to make us check Fiesa. Well played.

fiesa - confused

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I'm just having a difficult time understanding the whole Fiesa thing anyway. Is there a way for the MT to go in and actually review the document the auditor "dings" for whatever reason. I've emailed 3 TSMs and no one can tell me. I have a problem with taking things at their word when a reviewer has a name like jagdish mahyavadish from NTS_MUM. I also have a problem with working my tail off and not knowing what I'm going to make until the end of the week when the powers that be decide what all these convoluted factors are. ugh.

FIESA - anon

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I've never been able to listen to the note. I KNOW there were some errors that I fixed that did not show fixed in Fiesa, and I was dinged for them. Anyway, I just wonder this. So there are errors needing reversed, which knock me down below min wage. So I'm paid Min wage until the errors are reversed, which isn't until the next week if it happens Fri. Then they have to refigure my ENTIRE base line pay and fix it?! Meanwhile, I'm stuck without getting all my $ that pay period? I just foresee major major bugs in this.

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