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PT less than 20 hours. Possible?? - sm

Posted: Jul 16, 2013

As hard as it is for Nuance to get/retain employees has anyone every been able to negotiate for less than 20 hours PT with them?

feltx - pt

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I am PT and usually get less than 20 hours. I actually work 20 hours, but their clock and system hours always show me less than 20. It is usually around 17 hours. I don't have any benefits and they have not said anything to me so far.

PT 20 hours - burnedoutco

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I was told 20 hours was the minimum. That is the only reason I stay with this company because most others require 24 hours as minimum. Can you believe there is something good to say about Nuance!! Though I must say that my supervisor is a very nice lady.

Part time 20 hours - Nuance MT

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I was told lately by a supervisor that nothing less than 20 "server" hours was acceptable as part time. Server hours means they are timing the time on the keyboard and not the time you are clocked in on WebClock. So if you do a lot of research on Google or take phone calls while on the WebClock it will not count as "server" hours. So now I need to work more than 20 hours to make sure I get server hours of more than 20. Hope that I am not confusing you. Supervisor said Nuance does not hire part time for less than 20 hours - 20 "server" hours.

That doesn't mean you can't negotiate but my team supervisor is not negotiating and said rules come from the top and she is enforcing their rules.

Schedules being enforced with threats - MT

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More recently we have been advised that we are being monitored for working schedules with threat of termination if they are not strictly adhered to... this is the wake of recent backlogs. The numbers have been very high as people are not working (probably frustrated at the nastiness increasing), and now even more heat on the fire. Not a time IMHO to flex the clock less if you are going to try to negotiate anything. If you want to take a chance go ahead... but termination is now mentioned again and again.

Threats of termination for everything as of late - anon

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Five minutes late for shift? Do it again and you will get official performance review and then fired.

MUP pay 3 pay periods in a row? You have 1 week to change that and never do it again or you will be fired.

Not getting exactly 40 hours a week? You will no longer be considered full time and lose benefits of full time (even if you worked 39.99 hours).

Got a 98.9% on your last audit? Get it up by next quarter or you are fired.

The last 2 months have had endless threats of being terminated.

The problem is 99% of the issues are related to OOW and extremely inconsistent and punitive QC/QA. You cannot win at Nuance no matter what you do.

Is it you personally being threatened? Or... - just rumors?

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I've done just about everything you named in your post and I don't look at, or acknowledge QC/QA errors. I haven't been threatened with termination or losing benefits once.

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